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Erica Ash Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: heart or text I Heeart to five hundred five hundred
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Speaker 1: on the phone. As a star, I'm gonna tell her
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Speaker 1: she's a star because I admire her talents. She can
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Speaker 1: do dramedy, she can do comedy, and I cannot do either.
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Speaker 1: I've tried that acting thing. I realized that I could
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Speaker 1: tell jokes, but I can't act. My next Kiss was
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Speaker 1: a series regular one of my favorite shows on Stars
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Speaker 1: Survivors Remorse as the infamous m Chuck and Betray Kevin
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Speaker 1: Hart's ex wife on bt s fake reality series The
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Speaker 1: Real Husbands of Hollywood. She is now starting in a
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Speaker 1: new series on BT which I saw the pilot called
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Speaker 1: in Contempt. Please welcome the money making conversations Erica Ash,
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Speaker 1: thank you so much. Well, I try to get it
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Speaker 1: all out there, Erica, I try to get it all
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Speaker 1: out there that you're doing that. Well. You know, the
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Speaker 1: thing about it is that you have a body of
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Speaker 1: work and I feel that that's that's important. And uh
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Speaker 1: and you're still young. And I tell people all the
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Speaker 1: time and when I see a talent like you, did
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Speaker 1: you ever do stand up comedy? You know, it's interesting.
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Speaker 1: I tried it and realized that it wasn't for me.
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Speaker 1: It was a little bit too um. It was a
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Speaker 1: little that I just I just I didn't feel connected
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Speaker 1: to the work, and so I thought, you know, I
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Speaker 1: I there are so many other things that I feel
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Speaker 1: far more connected to, like writing and Okay, okay, Erica, Okay,
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Speaker 1: let's let's go and be real here now. Was it
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Speaker 1: the silence in the audience that that they made the
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Speaker 1: disconnect because I'm a stand up comedy Actually? You know,
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Speaker 1: I was actually challenged to my very first stand up experience,
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Speaker 1: and I was I was told don't go to the
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Speaker 1: Jay spot because there's the spot. I sure did. I
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Speaker 1: sure did, And I told it so funny. I was
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Speaker 1: on Steve Harvey the other day and I told him
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Speaker 1: that I went, and he was like, yeah, I heard
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Speaker 1: about you. So I went there because I was you know,
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Speaker 1: I stopped, well, that sounds like a dare. Don't dare me.
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Speaker 1: And I actually got a standing ovation my first time. Okay, okay, okay, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: so it wasn't it wasn't necessarily that. And then you know,
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Speaker 1: I got I think I maybe got one boo in
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Speaker 1: all the times that I tried. Okay, one boom, that's good,
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Speaker 1: that's good. One boo one time. Yeah, and I and
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Speaker 1: I tried all the tough ones. I didn't I didn't
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Speaker 1: go the easy round like I was like, let me
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Speaker 1: just dive straight in. But it was just I don't know,
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Speaker 1: It's just it was a little like I felt, I
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Speaker 1: found the environment amongst the comedians backstage just a little
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Speaker 1: bit too heavy. It is. It is very competitively and
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Speaker 1: it's very um jl house like, you know, because they
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Speaker 1: peered through the bars, you know, looking at you and
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Speaker 1: not really support than you. Is really an environment where,
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Speaker 1: especially for females. And I gotta just say this because
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Speaker 1: you know, I've been doing stand up comed this one
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Speaker 1: Steve Harvey now and Jasam but we're all we're all
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Speaker 1: good friends. So you you you're throwing out names that
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Speaker 1: I'm very familiar with in the stand up comedy industry
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Speaker 1: and also legends in the constand up comedy industry, is
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Speaker 1: that the female, if you're back there, you you're not
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Speaker 1: gonna be respected. If you're an attractive female like you,
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Speaker 1: they you're gonna want to get hit on. They're gonna
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Speaker 1: want to hit on you. And it's just so much
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Speaker 1: pressure you have to deal and all you just want
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Speaker 1: to do this is just work on your craft. Could
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Speaker 1: I just be funny? Can I just be funny? Okay?
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Speaker 1: Thank you? I got I got that. I think the
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Speaker 1: final shot for me was when someone came and told
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Speaker 1: me if you want people to laugh at you joke,
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Speaker 1: you can't be pretty. You need to, you know, dumb
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Speaker 1: it down. And I was like, oh no, you have
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Speaker 1: to let me be great. You gotta come out there
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Speaker 1: with your hair scatter. You know what I'm saying, Your
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Speaker 1: hair got to be scattered. They laughed, you know, because
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Speaker 1: but I'll tell you what. I'll tell you what. There
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Speaker 1: are people who have done it and done it successfully,
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Speaker 1: like you know, Tiffany Hattish. Of course, the more you know,
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Speaker 1: just like like beautiful women who have, who have, And
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Speaker 1: there's several others. I'm just you know, stop my head.
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Speaker 1: But no, it's no problem when you say that, because
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Speaker 1: I know which exactly what you're dealing with in that world. Now,
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Speaker 1: let's talk about you know, let's talk about you. What
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Speaker 1: I thought was it was the role of a lifetime
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Speaker 1: for you at that point. You've done a lot of
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Speaker 1: different things. Was m Chuck on the on the show
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Speaker 1: Stars Survivor for more? Because I just want everybody know,
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Speaker 1: because a lot of people may not recognize that name,
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Speaker 1: but they need to know they recognized you from those
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Speaker 1: commercials because you were very physically active. Use the aggressive character,
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Speaker 1: use an independent character. Tell me what you loved about
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Speaker 1: that character before we move on to your next projects.
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Speaker 1: I just loved how how comfortable she was with who
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Speaker 1: she was, and how free she was to speak on
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Speaker 1: all the things that she thought. You know, a lot
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Speaker 1: of people are sort of restricted by their by their class.
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Speaker 1: You know, I'm one of them. I grew up very um,
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Speaker 1: sort of in a strict household with a mother who
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Speaker 1: was very conservative, and um, you know, I'm a double
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Speaker 1: p k to to pre prepare. So what I said,
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Speaker 1: what I did, and you know, I was always told,
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Speaker 1: like the world is watching you, you better be careful.
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Speaker 1: And you know, m Chuck is just she was a
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Speaker 1: different energy. She was so fresh and free and like
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Speaker 1: she would say things and then she think about it,
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Speaker 1: you know, and I was like, I like this, and
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Speaker 1: so I would I I would embody that fully when
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Speaker 1: I played her, and sometimes when I didn't. So you know,
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Speaker 1: she freed she freed me up a little bit. It
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Speaker 1: just kind of be a bit more, you know, moufie.
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Speaker 1: And and you know, well, you know when you went
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Speaker 1: to when you went to that graveyard, you know when
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Speaker 1: your graveyard s you know, that was the that was
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Speaker 1: a moment for me. You know, oh, thank you, thank you.
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Speaker 1: That was that was moment for me to out there.
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Speaker 1: It was cold. I was like, wait, you really want
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Speaker 1: me to actually like pull my pants down and go
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Speaker 1: to the bathroom my ear? Let me tell you out something.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna do it together as a group. So when
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Speaker 1: y'all say take another, take another, take, y'all realize I
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Speaker 1: love that. I love you. Did that, I love you.
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Speaker 1: That's everybody pulling their pants down to day. That's m
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Speaker 1: Chuck moved. That's that's I love that. Now let's talk
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Speaker 1: about the fact that you know, we want, you know,
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Speaker 1: we want to talk about your your experience and working
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Speaker 1: with Kevin Hart, you know, basically an improvisational show, and
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Speaker 1: you know, you know, we want to go back a
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Speaker 1: little bit because Matt TV was your I want to
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Speaker 1: see your entry into television and your first big break.
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Speaker 1: Could I say that Matt TV? Yeah? Yeah, okay, Now
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Speaker 1: so you Matt TV, you know, scripted, he was a writer.
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Speaker 1: Uh did you go to now you have this amazing
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Speaker 1: opportunity with Kevin Hart on a basically show where improv
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Speaker 1: plays a lot. Were there any fears or you just say, hey,
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Speaker 1: I'm going forward? What were your thoughts? Because I mean comedy,
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Speaker 1: comedy is my default as a person like Erica, Like
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Speaker 1: you know, I love making jokes and being funny and
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Speaker 1: I'm and I'm very quick with it. I am I'm
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Speaker 1: always you know, clapping back and popping off. When I
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Speaker 1: get with somebody like Kevin, that's just like, let's go
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Speaker 1: play in the sandbox, you know, so we we It
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Speaker 1: was a fully scripted show. It was not meant to
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Speaker 1: be improv but you know, you get all those funny
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Speaker 1: guys together, That's what I'm saying, you know, Erica, it's
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Speaker 1: not going to not happen. There you go, there you go.
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Speaker 1: And then you had to be ready going that line
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Speaker 1: what you were supposed to say. You couldn't just look
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Speaker 1: at it like that script. No, you have to roll
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Speaker 1: with it. And that's why I enjoyed watching Competitive. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and I'm competitive. I'm not gonna let y'all. I'm not
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Speaker 1: gonna let y'all flap clap, flap flap. And I don't back,
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I was like, cool, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: Iron Sharper's Iron and that was the best best comedy
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Speaker 1: chop Cat ever. Now let's talk about the new show
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Speaker 1: in Contempt. That's gonna take us into the next break.
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Speaker 1: But I just want to such a stage for how
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Speaker 1: great you are as a comedian, the greats that you
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Speaker 1: work with, your dariness and it come is. I don't
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Speaker 1: have to ask this question. Is in Contempt? Is that
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Speaker 1: a drama t or drama? You know we have we
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Speaker 1: have yet to to officially categorize it, but I've heard
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Speaker 1: I've heard draw Uh yeah, I've heard drama the most.
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Speaker 1: And that's just because people, Um, you know, I can't
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Speaker 1: do anything and not bring some time to do it.
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Speaker 1: So if it's if it's if it's something super serious,
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Speaker 1: there has to be moments of levity because you know,
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Speaker 1: I'm I just don't believe that life is that. I
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Speaker 1: don't believe that life is all serious and you know,
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Speaker 1: heavy and sad, and you know, we've got to work
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Speaker 1: with you know what I mean, We have to really
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Speaker 1: we have to find those moments of levity in order
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Speaker 1: to keep our sanity. And I'm happy to be the
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Speaker 1: one to bring it. Well. The interesting thing about it
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Speaker 1: because I know they're not writing there's a drama. That's
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Speaker 1: that's why they ask you that, because I know you
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Speaker 1: know when you when when when it was pitched, you
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Speaker 1: know it was pitched as a drama. But you just
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Speaker 1: so naturally and your co stars are just aligning themselves
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Speaker 1: right with your with your actions, which is really really
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Speaker 1: which really really entertaining. So before we leave for this break,
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Speaker 1: quickly tell everybody exactly what INCA tip is. Well in
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Speaker 1: contempt is a one hour law procedural. It's the first
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Speaker 1: of its kind on b ET. So I'm glad that
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Speaker 1: they're you know, they're taking such huge risks, um, But
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Speaker 1: it's from the perspective of the public defender, whereas most
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Speaker 1: that you will see like law and order from the
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Speaker 1: perspective of the district attorney. So my character, Gwen Sullivan
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Speaker 1: is you know, very headstrong, very very determined and passionate
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Speaker 1: public defender who is willing to do anything to get
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Speaker 1: her clients to fair shake because she represents the people
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Speaker 1: who are quote a quote guilty and to proven innocent.
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Speaker 1: And so you know, she's willing to get arrested. She'll
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Speaker 1: pop off at the judge, She'll let him have it
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Speaker 1: in court. I mean, she'll go off on her, on her,
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Speaker 1: on her opposing counsel. It just you know, she just
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Speaker 1: really really goes there. But you you fall in love
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Speaker 1: with that packing, but she's also fawed that thought. Right quick, Erica,
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Speaker 1: We're gonna be right back. I want to get more
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Speaker 1: details on you, the star of In Contempt. On b
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Speaker 1: et Erica, Hi, just ra Sean McDonald. I'm back with
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Speaker 1: money making conversations on the phone, because Erica asked she's
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Speaker 1: the star of the new BT series In Contempt. She
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Speaker 1: told us earlier that she is a double p K
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Speaker 1: kid double and then I found out that she wanted
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Speaker 1: to be a doctor at one time in her life.
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Speaker 1: What made that shift there? Erica come on that waking
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Speaker 1: up and realizing that it was my parents dream and
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Speaker 1: not mine, which happened somewhere around UM junior year. After
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Speaker 1: I depleted all of the requirements and done everything that
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Speaker 1: you know, they had asked, I had a little bit
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Speaker 1: of time on my hands, you know, it had time
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Speaker 1: to think about it, and so I decided to take
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Speaker 1: a year and figure out what it is that Erica
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Speaker 1: wanted to do. And during that year, I happened to
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Speaker 1: fall into a background singing gig and fell into you know,
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Speaker 1: was a modeling situation. And you know these extra credits
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Speaker 1: that aren't in your bio. You know, you are model,
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Speaker 1: you were a singer. You know these Oh you're just
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Speaker 1: a three sixty kid. You're just are not a peakake kid.
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Speaker 1: You lived about nine lives. Because you're also a comedy writer.
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Speaker 1: You also a comedy writer. Yes, yes, So I didn't
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Speaker 1: realize that I was a comedy writer because my very
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Speaker 1: very first show UM, I had pitched the character and
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Speaker 1: they paired me with a writer to develop the character
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Speaker 1: for the show, and the writer just kept getting it wrong.
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Speaker 1: I was like, no, that's not that's something you would say.
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Speaker 1: He would say that that's not sir, sir, You're just
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Speaker 1: not getting it right. I was like, how about you know?
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Speaker 1: And then I just kept like I wasn't explaining myself
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Speaker 1: very well. So I was like, I went home and
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Speaker 1: I wrote the scene and I saw it and then
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Speaker 1: I came back and I was like, it's it's kind
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Speaker 1: of more like this, and he was like, uh, why
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Speaker 1: don't you just use this? Yeah? Okay, So kind of
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Speaker 1: hastened by accidents that I realized I was a writer.
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Speaker 1: And then and then Mad TV, I did the same
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Speaker 1: thing when I when I because they pulled me from
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Speaker 1: my very first TV show. They actually um made me
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Speaker 1: a straight offer, and you know, I went there and
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Speaker 1: I was like, well, this is what I was doing
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Speaker 1: on the other show. And they're like, oh, awesome, so
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Speaker 1: we'll pay you this. I'm like, wait, skirt held up,
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Speaker 1: you pay me. I was supposed to get paid for this.
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Speaker 1: They were like, yeah, now your new show in Contempt,
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Speaker 1: you are getting paid it the first of his time.
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Speaker 1: Let's break down some of your characters. So they really
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Speaker 1: rather emotionally charging. You had with your father in the restaurant,
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Speaker 1: played by the amazing Richard Lawson. You know, we have
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Speaker 1: a really relationship. Really made me and Yance sisters absolutely,
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Speaker 1: which is awesome, awesome. You know, just uh Coachella was
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Speaker 1: she headlined first black woman ever to headline Coachella. So
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Speaker 1: she's amazing. You know. The great things about you is
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Speaker 1: that in this in this show, like I said, the
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Speaker 1: one hour drama is on bat in contempt. It's a drama,
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Speaker 1: but your natural talent seems to be the pool comedy moments.
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Speaker 1: Tell tell us about the characters on the show and
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Speaker 1: what excites you about the series. Well, the thing that
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Speaker 1: I'm most excited about is it something that you haven't
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Speaker 1: seen before. And you know, we've got a great, great task.
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Speaker 1: I mean, Richard Lawton that you just mentioned plays my father. Um,
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Speaker 1: we have Christine Keith, Megan Hutchins moving to tre Ronnie
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Speaker 1: Roe Jr. Um and everyone is really really committed to
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Speaker 1: making sure this story gets told authentically. Our so runner
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Speaker 1: was a public defender in New York for a number
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Speaker 1: of years and so she lends that to the script.
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Speaker 1: When I read the script, it was a total little
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Speaker 1: page turner. So that's the first thing that attracted me.
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Speaker 1: And I love the fact that our characters are real
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Speaker 1: and they're relatable. You know, they do this awesome job,
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Speaker 1: but they have the same issues that everybody else has
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Speaker 1: and in their jobs and in their lives. You know,
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Speaker 1: like when has a shopping addiction, she's also addicted to
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Speaker 1: flame bolts, and she's a g she's got two lovers,
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Speaker 1: like you know, you know what I mean. Like notice
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Speaker 1: I said a gum and something I would love to
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Speaker 1: adopt from Gwen because my game is like flatlining um.
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Speaker 1: And then you've got you know, she she likes the
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Speaker 1: box and they have their inner office situation. Your offices
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Speaker 1: in the closet. Your office is in the closet. That's
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Speaker 1: where you operating out over well actually technically my office
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Speaker 1: is not in the closet, but which you'll you'll probably
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Speaker 1: see UM's episodes, but that's kind of my that's my
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Speaker 1: war room. Okay, good, Now, what character I do like it?
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Speaker 1: I don't know. Her name was the young lady who
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Speaker 1: was at this large firm and now she's coming over here.
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Speaker 1: I really liked her character. Really is she is. She's
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Speaker 1: She's going to be a serious regular that that character.
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Speaker 1: I love her character because because it's a it's a
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Speaker 1: very honest character. Where she has chosen to come into
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Speaker 1: a field that doesn't have the same tools that can
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Speaker 1: help you win. And so you write basically like basically, uh,
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Speaker 1: put in the position just to get to the next
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Speaker 1: case or to get these people in the position to
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Speaker 1: be able to sustain some type of life and uh
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Speaker 1: and and win with And I feel that that's the
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Speaker 1: that's the biggest thing that came out of the public defenders,
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Speaker 1: that these people are walking into situations where they cannot win,
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Speaker 1: right or it's like walking into a battle royal with
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Speaker 1: like one hand tied behind your back. It's like, do
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Speaker 1: you know, It's just it's not it's not a great situation.
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Speaker 1: And it makes you realize how underappreciated public defenders are.
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Speaker 1: I think, next to teachers, are one of the most
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Speaker 1: underappreciated in the country. You know, career choices and um,
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Speaker 1: it's it's important that we support them because they don't
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Speaker 1: get their underresourced, they're understaffed, they're underfunded, and even information wise,
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Speaker 1: they're not even required by law to get the information
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Speaker 1: at the same time as the district attorneys. You know,
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Speaker 1: the police work with the district attorneys and so obviously
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Speaker 1: it behooves them to give the district attorney as much
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Speaker 1: of a leg up as possible so they can justify
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Speaker 1: it when a crooked cop makes a bad arrest, or
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Speaker 1: someone makes a bad idea, and you know, because which
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Speaker 1: was in the pilot episode was a bad idea about
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Speaker 1: that young man who when you walk to him to say,
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Speaker 1: plead out, plead out, and he refused to plead out.
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Speaker 1: And you know, the thing about it that I like
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Speaker 1: about the show is that, you know, it has layers
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Speaker 1: as the lawyers for you as a woman, has layers
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Speaker 1: for you emotionally dealing with cases that you're passionate about.
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Speaker 1: In the case in that situation, you're about to walk
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Speaker 1: away and just say plead out, and you looked at
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Speaker 1: this manual. Okay, look, let's go forward, let's go forward.
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Speaker 1: And yeah, And a lot of times that's what happens
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Speaker 1: because they're they're they're so backlogged in the court system.
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Speaker 1: You know. Um, these new laws to try to expedite
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Speaker 1: things even more just restrate me to no end because
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Speaker 1: I'm like, the court systems already backlogged. That's the reason
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Speaker 1: why the jail cells are so full. People can't afford
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Speaker 1: these bails, you know, Um, and so they you know,
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Speaker 1: they have to await their trials there for you know, days, weeks, years,
18:27
Speaker 1: even Calfe brother, you know what I mean, and then
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Speaker 1: they end up serving time, doing time for the crimes
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Speaker 1: they haven't even been convicted of. You when you do
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Speaker 1: a show like this, you do a show like this
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Speaker 1: in contempt, you know, because I felt that the character
18:41
Speaker 1: you play, M Chuck, what's an emotionally charged character? And
18:44
Speaker 1: I feel that the character you played on this show
18:46
Speaker 1: is an emotionally charged character. And what is your biggest
18:50
Speaker 1: walk away when you when you when you accept the
18:52
Speaker 1: role or are you are your audition for a role?
18:55
Speaker 1: What are you trying to accomplish on the screen or film? Right? Well,
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Speaker 1: first of all, I want my characters to have some
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Speaker 1: sort of growth, some sort of um um evolution, right,
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Speaker 1: And if I can see them going there, it doesn't
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Speaker 1: have to be fully you know, in the first season
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Speaker 1: or the first you know, a few episodes. But I
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Speaker 1: need to know that they're on the path to something
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Speaker 1: like us being better somehow, because I like to use
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Speaker 1: every character in some way to motivate someone, right. I
19:25
Speaker 1: love to speak to people. I love to speak to
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Speaker 1: young girls. I love to speak to young men um
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Speaker 1: and and and talk about, you know, their life and
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Speaker 1: their choices. And so when I have a character that
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Speaker 1: I can kind of use to support that and back
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Speaker 1: that up, that's you know, I find that that's a wind.
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Speaker 1: That's a win for everybody. They're entertained, but they're learning something.
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Speaker 1: You know, It's something that I can be proud of.
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Speaker 1: When I have kids one day, I can you know,
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Speaker 1: I'll have a body of work that I'll be able
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Speaker 1: to share with them and not be like, but don't
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Speaker 1: look at this because mommy was in a bad space
19:54
Speaker 1: when you did that, you know what I mean. So
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Speaker 1: let's talk about the situation that what I wanted to
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Speaker 1: talk about. It is this next upcoming movie that's coming
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Speaker 1: out this summer that's right in your comedy lane. That's
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Speaker 1: right in your comedy lane. You know, I can't throw
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Speaker 1: it all away now, I got to I got to
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Speaker 1: keep some of it. I got to keep that comedy,
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Speaker 1: that comedy leg going. I got my boy a little
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Speaker 1: real in it. That's one of the stars from get Out.
20:19
Speaker 1: If you don't know who he is, he played the
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Speaker 1: security guy the t s a agent and Get Out.
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Speaker 1: Very funny young man who's really who's rising? Tell us
20:28
Speaker 1: a little bit about your character before we get out
20:30
Speaker 1: of here, and also everybody in Contempt. It's on b ET.
20:33
Speaker 1: She's starting it and I'm talking to Erica ashe So
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Speaker 1: Uncle Drew is a story of uh little rel who
20:42
Speaker 1: wants to uh be at the Rutger. You know, he
20:45
Speaker 1: basically takes the last bit of money that he has
20:49
Speaker 1: and wants to wants to be a coach at the
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Speaker 1: Rucker Park because he just knows he can win. Um,
20:54
Speaker 1: his team end up falling apart and he's got to
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Speaker 1: put together a new team and it's kind of last many.
20:58
Speaker 1: He doesn't have a lot of time. Hears about Uncle Drew,
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Speaker 1: who is like this you know legend at first the
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Speaker 1: tall tale, he thinks, and then he makes him in
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Speaker 1: person realizes, Wow, this guy is really good. So you
21:09
Speaker 1: know we road trip and travel around to try the
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Speaker 1: whole team together. Yeah, Erica, thank you. I hope it
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Speaker 1: was amazing. It was amazing interview for me. Keep winning.
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