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Kim Fields Wants A Hot Girl Summer, Talks Her Favorite Role & 'The Upshaws' Season 2
Jul 2, 2022
The Upshaws star Kim Fields stopped by Sway In The Morning to talk about season two of the popular Netflix series created by Wanda Sykes and Mike Epps.
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yes indeed man yes indeed we just played
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back the trailer heather and i was
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talking about this off mike how much we
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enjoy the upshaw's yes uh you can find
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it on netflix co-created by regina hicks
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and wanda sykes wanda who's a good
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friend of ours
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there are a lot of people we consider
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friends um that um are in this the
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upshaw series including mike epps give
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him a big round of applause this
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actually is the brainchild of mike gepps
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and then wanda sykes so mike this is
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mike's hold up before you hold up i'm
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sorry i just started talking
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i know y'all heard that voice and it
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sounds familiar to you because that
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voice has been in our lexicon uh for
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years even when she barely knew how to
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talk and was on good times but at the
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highest level though at the highest
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level
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she is a pure example of what success
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can look like in this business and i'm
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not saying it because of all the
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accolades and all the wonderful things
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that she's accomplished it's because of
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the way she sustained over the years
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as she was accomplishing these things
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see success isn't just what you see is
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what you go through that's right right
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how you go through it and how you go
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through it and you demonstrated and have
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shown us time after time the right way
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to do it and i just want to personally
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say thank you because i haven't seen you
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in a long time
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all right we never really explored we
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never explored your r b career but maybe
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one day
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maybe one day we could jump into that
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kim when you ready all right okay
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welcome her back to the show give it up
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for regina upshaw aka kim fields
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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hey
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kim i'm so glad to be here i'm happy to
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have you it looks like the epitome of
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summertime oh thanks summertime fun
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thank you thank you i think i am
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definitely trying to go for a hot girl
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summer persona this is it yeah this is
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it right what is a hot girl summer for
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you um well you know getting um a
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healthy sun kissing and um
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healthy though yeah
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and uh having lots of fun
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wonderful adventures
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some pool time so i'm water bay i am
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hashtag water bay and so i pool time
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water time ocean lake uh-huh all that
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right summertime rain puddle uh listen
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brain puddles
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[Music]
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for some reason i have been on a for
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real carl thomas vibe which is
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come on
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classic classic uh and then of course
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because you know i'm i'm harlem honey so
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opening up that fire hydrant oh yeah
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oh i can cut something yeah
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i love kevin he's a water bay too that's
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a kitten
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you know
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absolutely so those are some of the um
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some uh fun summertime things yes of
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course uh binge watching uh and and
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doing all the summer fun movies like i'm
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a little behind because of the press
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term a little behind in catching the uh
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top gun
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movie
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great cannot wait to see
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made a billion
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well i'ma give him a little bit more
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because i got to see that i mean i just
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i love tom cruise in all his movies and
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then just binge watching you know shows
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like the upshaw
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yo i find that interesting because i
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can't it's hard to listen to radio for
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me
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because i i can't it's hard not to peel
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back the curtain of course what i'm
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hearing so you could watch
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some stuff like a tom cruise movie i
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could watch and be thoroughly
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entertained okay and and at the same
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time appreciate what he does as a
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filmmaker as a content provider as an
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actor like he checks all my boxes you
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know and so and his movies and so you
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know that kind of things where i can
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absolutely just watch and not feel like
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oh i have what was that what was that
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lighting or you know that acting
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look at that dress i mean yeah
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he said that timing
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[Music]
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cam why do you because uh you've
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directed you've acted you've done it all
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right why is it
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someone like tom cruise who i'm a fan of
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a huge fan we was actually born on the
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same date no kidding yes his birthday is
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the same as mine july 3rd
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thank you heather
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uh yeah coming soon but he doesn't
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that's why he said it like yeah just
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case cam i know you give me travel you
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might see a souvenir
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look at the family we should get sweden
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why can't i don't think tom gets credit
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for acting like why why not though
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that's an excellent point and i think
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because he's known for so many great um
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action movies yeah um and there's this
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kind of um
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i won't call it a stigma but i think
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there's an observation or an
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understanding that people seem to
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gravitate towards like if it's action
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then you know you're really not doing a
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lot of acting and that's just not the
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case
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um but that's why like in all the marvel
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movies and you have a lot of really
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talented actors because people
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understand that you have to still
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sell the story yeah yeah and sell the
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characters and sorry action people but
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only acting can do that yeah yeah and do
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it well yeah right so so that's why i
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feel like he kind of gets gets
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overlooked in terms of the acting
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but he man he should have won for jerry
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maguire though right there um but but
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mission impossible you know when they
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was messing with his wife and all that
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yeah that was good he delivered really
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did i see him do something with meryl
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streep once yes yes um lions for lambs
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yeah lions for lambs or lambs for lions
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but yes and i thought that was
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interesting it was very interesting it
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was a wonderful wonderful picture but
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again because he's you know really
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acting and ain't jumping out of a
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helicopter to talk to meryl streep
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listen i love jumping out of a
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helicopter so i will always i will
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always want to do something like that so
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do you have a
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uh a favor people always say what is
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your favorite interview i can't nail
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that like i've done so many interviews
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over the years yeah but i will say
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there are a few that stick out for me
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like during tupac's last one of his last
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interviews that and biggie same thing
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same way he passed but sitting down with
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um
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sitting down with a
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[Laughter]
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[Music]
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my childhood crush every time
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do you have a favorite role
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um
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that i've played
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um you know regine was incredible
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because
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she was so
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not like me quite honestly and for me as
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an actor the reason why i even got into
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acton family was i loved like creating
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the worlds creating the characters yeah
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um and so so that ended up being what i
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gravitated towards i did i was not one
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of those i've got to be a performer i'm
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very shy and i was very shy as a kid and
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so for me it wasn't about i wanted to be
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seen and
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all of that it was i liked the the magic
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that was being made and so
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so when you get to do that um and play
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characters that are so
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not like you that makes you stretch out
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you know it's one thing you could some
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interviews you don't even need to prep
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for you don't even need the sheet you
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just kind you know it but because you
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have are passionate about what you do
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then you still are in it but there are
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some where you just like okay wait a
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minute is this no i need to prep yeah
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i'm gonna do this i'm gonna do that
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because the the conversation is going to
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stretch you a bit and that's how i feel
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about certain roles when i'm doing
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something that i've not done before so
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regine uh regine hunter yeah regine
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hunter
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i definitely felt like that you know and
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coming off of
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my last series being facts of life for
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yvette bowser to
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to see me in that light
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was incredible because i certainly
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didn't see myself in that light at all
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and so it definitely felt like a stretch
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you know and the acting and the the the
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dialogue that i was saying and and i
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mean the pilot jesus i was you know
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i mean just just everything and so and
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now jumping to
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uh the upshaws um i wasn't checking for
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a comedy i didn't want to do another
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sitcom or anything like that but
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when they said netflix mike apps wanda
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sykes that was one of them well let me
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see what you're talking about
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options can be made exactly kim i'm kind
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of glad you picked regine because i i
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feel like the entire cast was special
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like shout out to yvette and everybody
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involved in that because you fast
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forward these years later look at wala
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queen
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latifah has gone on to do look at erica
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alexander like you know shout out to kim
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coles
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she's so
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freaking talented like just
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so i think the entire thing was special
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did you know that like walking in
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because
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when you get on a set or even for us in
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the studio like i remember coming in
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here thinking all right me and sway bout
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to do some right right
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about to get this
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yeah yeah yeah you felt that way too
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um
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not not quite as as all the way there
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with it you know when we had the first
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kind of lunch with
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erica and tc no erica it was the four
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girls and i so it was erica uh kim calls
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myself dana and uh yvette and when we
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had that first get together it was one
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of those we knew we were at i think the
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cheesecake factory in marina del rey
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okay
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next to killer shrimp around the corner
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from killer shrimp
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y'all know i'll be eating it's our spot
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like oh
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i'm with the right baby
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but now i know so
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but it was one of those where you just
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and we weren't
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we didn't not the applause who put the
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applause in there
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the audience is another little they're
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watching me
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um and so you felt like okay this is
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some lightning in a bottle that's that's
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jumping off right here
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and that was we weren't even reading the
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script we were just interacting as us
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wow and then after that first table
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reading by then john and tc shout out to
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them as well yeah man the fellas holding
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us down
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and then it became a
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this is something oh my goodness yeah
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but certainly you don't have any idea
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the impact yeah that's what you do
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you know that you're making something
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special but you don't know the impact
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and then how it's going to reverberate
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after decades okay yeah man you know
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where where people are still like like
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like for real for real vibing on this
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and and how they love us yeah it's it's
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incredible but all that to say that's
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that's why i pick regine is like the
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your favorite
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one of my favorite roles you know the
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role i did in adventures of christmas
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adventures in christmasing uh it was an
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action-adventure movie that i did
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um and i loved that character because it
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she was just catapulted out of her
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comfort zone
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and and into this adventure um into um
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you know the wild for this winter
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adventure and then when that goes you
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know kind of off the rails a bit then
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what happens and it escalates from there
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um and so again
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things that pull me out of my comfort
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zone
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more and more those are the characters
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that i really gravitate towards in life
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too
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off stage very much so yeah like that's
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only what i want to do
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you know that is the order of the day
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from 2016 when i celebrated my 40th year
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in the industry
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i'm talking
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some legendary and you ain't no
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legend you ain't no legend all that
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you ain't got to say it can i
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say it
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talk to him stop
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right she said four decades not
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five years not a single
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not a part in the movie four decades wow
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watermelon head
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oh watermelon
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you know what i'm talking too
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[Laughter]
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minimum three decades to be legendary
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real minimum minimum three real time
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legendary wow anyway she did that that
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was in 2016 20 right what year is it
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oh my gosh
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[Laughter]
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you talking about
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charleston
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[Laughter]
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[Music]
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now we're climbing it up that's what
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happens when it's four decades
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oh
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don't all right tracy ask the question
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what i was trying to say
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i know everybody's wiping it to you
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um
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but when i celebrated four decades in
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the industry in 2016
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my mandate for myself and my team was
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uncharted waters there you go yeah only
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only go into uncharted waters we only
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going to do some we have never done
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before wow and do it and do it and do it
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well
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and so that's why when the upshots came
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when adventures in christmasing was
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created when all of these
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moments happen you know everybody's
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always talking about creating a moment
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and and you have to have some strategy
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yes to to that you know to creating a
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moment and even with creating lightning
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in a bottle so so that's
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you know what i go on so yes even
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personally
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at this point yeah you know hell
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yeah might as well have to go after
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stuff that i've never done before
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absolutely
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i love that kim phil's is here come on
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man i love it
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thank you thank you
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you you calmed down over there
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you know what you mentioned regine and
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made me think of when um
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queen latifah she did an interview on
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red table talk recently
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and she shared
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she she shared how
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i'm living single apparently you guys
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were told to lose weight
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yeah i heard right i heard about that
16:41
that's honestly not my my testimony and
16:44
my path so to speak
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so um but i did hear about the interview
16:48
because i'm on you know a press store as
16:50
well and they were like well what about
16:51
this and i said listen
16:53
while we were a unit and you know the
16:55
six of us
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truly tight like glue
16:58
individually we still had certain issues
17:00
to to deal with crosses to bear and all
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of that so that may have been one for
17:04
dana that i wasn't privy to okay um but
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that wasn't something that i should i
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have my own issues
17:11
goodness knows i did um that at that
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point wasn't one of them i'd experienced
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something like that on facts of life but
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but not with with living singles
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for kids your age at that time yeah
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absolutely they asked you to lose weight
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well you know it was a show about four
17:26
girls growing up in terms of facts of
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life um and so you know trying to find
17:31
that balance with okay well what happens
17:33
when we go through puberty and groin
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pains and because i was the youngest so
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you really saw from age nine to 18. okay
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that whole
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you know metamorphosis yeah um and
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so
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all the highs and lows that come with
17:48
that um and because this is you know the
17:50
80s and you know there was certainly no
17:53
um being politically correct and
17:56
movements and all of that
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so it was just a matter of okay hey
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listen
18:01
you know you we're starting to you know
18:04
bulk up a bit and so they would trade
18:06
out stuff at craft services and things
18:08
like that so again i've certainly
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experienced it in my career yeah but not
18:13
during uh living single but again i'm
18:16
because god knows i don't want just how
18:18
much she got beef with lodge shut up no
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she don't know
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yeah
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[Laughter]
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one of my names that has stuck to this
18:37
day
18:37
this is from latifah she called me the
18:40
ruthless assassin child star
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that's a long-ass title isn't it listen
18:46
but but the and for short it was i was
18:49
ruth
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because you know i i can take a lot but
18:53
i ain't gonna take no that's
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right i'm just not and especially not in
18:57
in my work right come on now no i've
18:59
been doing this way too long so do you
19:01
have to take at this stage in your
19:03
career because i you know we still deal
19:05
with stuff radio the just
19:07
of course it's a fact of life
19:11
i think everyone still does
19:14
it's just there are certain ways that
19:16
you tolerate now
19:19
i think now we're a lot more eyes wide
19:22
open in terms of oh i see your
19:24
coming
19:25
so you ain't taking me by surprise with
19:27
your
19:28
and then you can leave your here
19:31
and then it's on me if i'm gonna pick it
19:32
up or not yes so i think you know the
19:35
idea of is just always gonna be
19:37
around as long as humanity is around
19:40
it's just how you choose to deal with it
19:43
how you choose to be bothered with it
19:44
how we pick our battles in our workplace
19:47
you know and being strategic with it are
19:49
you worth me catching the case no
19:51
are you worth me you know being able to
19:55
navigate through this moment
19:57
to stay the other side because i'm
19:58
leveling up in my career possibly you
20:01
know so i think there's just more wisdom
20:03
with the yep discernment what's
20:05
the best environment
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oh yeah well it's a battle that you feel
20:11
like like an example of one that you'd
20:12
be like you know what this is worth my
20:14
time and energy
20:17
i i don't know if i can say that
20:18
publicly but money yeah no actually okay
20:22
no no actually um just um
20:27
i think just that overall sense of
20:30
don't try to pull one over on me
20:33
you know um from that standpoint here
20:35
here's the thing there are times where i
20:37
feel like i can't care more than you
20:39
about your your project your brand
20:42
you're this your movie your tv show
20:45
you're whatever so the moment i find
20:47
myself going wait a minute i care more
20:49
than the people who's really in charge
20:51
and running it and making all the money
20:53
i got to dial that back yeah so that
20:56
i've got the energy to give it my all on
20:58
the that i do own
21:00
and the stuff that i am in control of
21:02
mm-hmm
21:04
are you happy with and
21:06
when you um reflect on your career to
21:08
date are you happy with the the pay that
21:10
you received where you are monetarily
21:13
well yeah because
21:15
i mean you could have no check
21:17
coming that's right you're sitting on
21:18
your sofa or wishing and hoping and
21:21
praying and and and that's your phone
21:24
even yeah exactly so you know i feel
21:26
like it's it's
21:28
you know the economy goes up and down
21:30
and so everybody's
21:32
pay scales and grades and rates and all
21:34
of that can you know be adjusted and
21:37
flipped
21:38
for me um i i got into this because of
21:40
the work and i love again like i told
21:42
you guys earlier creating characters um
21:45
and so when i get to work there are
21:47
times when it's not about the check and
21:50
i don't want you i think oh well that's
21:51
because she got to pay and she well you
21:53
know i got bills like everybody else
21:56
and you know but at the same time
21:58
there are moments where it's more it
22:00
transcends that
22:02
in in certain instances certain this
22:04
this is like
22:05
okay that's a cute piece of paper that's
22:07
a cute chat yeah yeah uh
22:13
yeah you know and it's not going to
22:15
compromise you know who this is
22:17
but at the end of the day you know there
22:19
are times where you might do something
22:20
you take an appearance or you do or
22:22
whatever but then sometimes it's all
22:24
about oh no
22:26
i y'all
22:27
if tom cruise called me today i'd
22:29
be like um
22:32
who you could put all my check into the
22:34
into into you know special effects i
22:37
mean because there are certain things
22:38
that it's it's like it's not even about
22:40
that it's about that opportunity you
22:42
know um and i mean but on the other side
22:45
of the scale when when blair underwood
22:48
when blair started directing i was able
22:50
to be um
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a second second a.d cam carrying camera
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cases and
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you know like like grunt work kind of
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thing and i wasn't being paid but it was
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the opportunity
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it was the opportunity absolutely so you
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know you find those you find those
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moments where you can really be about it
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you want to meet them you know you know
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what it is
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he plays michael jackson and mj the
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musical
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my kim fields wanted to meet you bro
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okay
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yo
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wow wow we go we're gonna come back with
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miles frost
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well hold up let that moment happen hold
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up
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let me get the mic over here
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go ahead go ahead y'all go ahead and
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whisper go ahead thank you thank you so
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much i appreciate it
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kevin saying congratulations
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you're saying i appreciate it miles got
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hair like michael too
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yeah okay cool all right cool okay cool
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that moment just happened there all
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right
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yo let's give it up for kim fields kim
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thank you we love you yes
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the upshaw's season two on netflix let's
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get it
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kim come back because
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all this information you're giving us is
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amazing hold up with that and your and
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what you've given us throughout our
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lives is amazing so to sit here and be
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able to speak with you is very surreal
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and continue to teach us entertain us
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and we love you okay four decades
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[Applause]
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and the family right here this is this
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is
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y'all don't know how y'all been holding
24:55
it down thank you y'all y'all don't even
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understand how y'all have been so much
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of an impact for the culture thank you
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and understanding the importance of the
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culture and how the culture transcends
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the race
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there you go
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there you go
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yeah i'm just saying but you
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you don't get that close to me
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[Music]
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thank you thank you all right wait kevin
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only you got to stay and take a picture
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take a picture kim phil's the
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magnificent one royalty is in the
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building royalty is in the building okay
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we got miles frost up next
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