Up next in 10
Omar Epps and Patina Miller Talk About 50 Cent's Power Book III: Raising Kanan | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
Jul 20, 2021
Power is back and growing, and takes fans through what it is like growing up in South Jamaica, Queens in the early ’90s. The first episode of the prequel series Raising Kanan, “Back in the Day,” transports you back in time. Stars of the series, Patina Miller and Omar Epps talk about the what to expect from Raising Kanan.
Subscribe Here! http://bit.ly/SubscribeSU
Watch the Best of Sway In The Morning! http://bit.ly/BestOfSITM
Check out More From Sway’s Universe
http://swaysuniverse.com
http://twitter.com/swaysuniverse
http://instagram.com/swaysuniverse
http://facebook.com/swaysuniverse
#OmarEpps #PatinaMiller #PowerBook3 #50Cent #RasingKanan #SwaysUniverse #SwayInTheMorning #SiriusXM #Shade45 #Starz
About SWAY’s UNIVERSE
Exclusive interviews from Sway Calloway and the Sway In The Morning/ SwaysUniverse.com team with some of today's biggest celebrities, like Kevin Hart, Kanye West, Eminem, Usher, Jessica Alba, Steve Aoki, Torey Lanez, Julia Stiles and so much more.
Omar Epps and Patina Miller Talk About 50 Cent's Power Book III: Raising Kanan | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
https://youtu.be/-dA9fz9g-2k
Show More Show Less View Video Transcript
0:00
Is everybody
0:05
Ain't nobody ever going to get between
0:06
my son and me.
0:10
Yo, come on man. This might be Tracy G
0:12
uh easily the most anticipated premieres
0:15
we're seeing right now on the
0:18
on the screen. We're talking Power Book
0:20
III Raising Raising Kanan and and this
0:23
is Sunday, July 18th on Stars. It's the
0:26
reason I have Stars, DB. And speaking of
0:28
Stars, we got two of them with us right
0:30
now. Can you do the honors?
0:33
Well, one of them is a returning
0:34
citizen. You know, he's he's practically
0:36
family. I know him, Heather B, and
0:37
Marlon Wayans have been uh deep good
0:40
friends for for many years and he's been
0:42
on our show before. He's a nine-time
0:44
NAACP Image Award winner, two-time Teen
0:47
Choice Award winner, one-time MTV Movie
0:50
Award winner, one-time Black Reel Award,
0:52
and one-time Screen Actors Guild Award.
0:54
You know him from Juice, Higher
0:55
Learning, The Wood, In Too Deep, Love &
0:57
Basketball, and the TV series ER and
0:59
House. And with him is his co-star He is
1:02
an actress and a singer. She originated
1:04
the role of Deloris in the Broadway
1:06
production of Sister Act. She is a Tony
1:08
Award winner and you also probably saw
1:09
her in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay
1:11
Parts 1 and 2. But now they are both
1:13
starring in Power Book III: Raising
1:15
Kanan. Please welcome Omar Epps and
1:18
PATINA MILLER.
1:18
YEAH.
1:20
NO.
1:21
WHAT'S UP? WHAT'S UP? WHAT'S UP, FAMILY?
1:22
WHAT'S UP?
1:23
YO.
1:23
Heavy hitters.
1:25
Come on.
1:26
I I Patina
1:27
Where you get all those awards stats
1:29
from? From Wikipedia?
1:30
Hi.
1:30
No, I didn't get it
1:31
From your life.
1:33
Come on, Omar.
1:34
She got the trophies. I
1:35
I ain't got no trophies like that.
1:36
Patina got the trophies.
1:38
Patina got some big trophies. Yeah,
1:40
Patina, you got some big trophies. You
1:41
know that.
1:42
I got a trophy, but that resume though,
1:44
when you was calling out all them damn
1:45
movies that I love so much, Omar Epps, I
1:48
can't even believe we are in a show
1:50
together.
1:52
I mean, you know, it's it's it's my
1:54
honor. It's like like I always tell you,
1:56
I can't wait for people to experience um
1:59
the Patina Miller experience. You know,
2:03
she killed it in this role and
2:06
you know, it's I'm just excited. I'm
2:08
excited.
2:09
I'm excited for you all. Patina, welcome
2:11
to the show by the way. I'm Sway.
2:13
Pleasure pleasure to have you on the
2:14
show. So familiar with your work over
2:17
the years. Congratulations on all of
2:20
your accolades and and working with
2:23
someone like Omar Omar working with
2:25
someone like Patina. You know, Omar is
2:27
one of the few men that I ever had a
2:28
poster up on the wall in my room,
2:30
Patina. Just to LET YOU KNOW.
2:33
WOW.
2:35
OMAR, you know, you had a Eric B and
2:38
Rakim poster. You might have had a Slick
2:40
Rick. You know, it was you know, because
2:42
you've been such a we're peers. We're
2:44
you know,
2:46
from the same generation, but you've
2:48
been such an inspiration and every time
2:50
we talk about all of these movies
2:53
you were a part you've been a part of.
2:56
It's just amazing, man. I I I don't know
2:58
how you when you hear your accolades,
3:00
how do you respond to it? You know, at
3:02
one point you was a kid with a dream and
3:05
now we got this litany of
3:06
accomplishments. How how does that make
3:08
you feel?
3:09
Uh I mean, on it and and just I just
3:13
feel blessed, brother. Like, you know
3:15
what I mean? We're like you said, we're
3:17
peers
3:18
and
3:19
you know, I just feel blessed to have
3:22
been a part of beautiful black imagery.
3:25
Let's put it that way. You know what I
3:27
mean? And and that's the best to me
3:29
that's the most powerful thing when you
3:31
know, young brothers or sisters you
3:33
know, come up and
3:34
they may say a scene or a movie or
3:36
something like that and you know,
3:38
inspired them for the better in their
3:40
lives and in their journey. You know,
3:43
that's what it's all about. That's what
3:44
we're here to do to push each other
3:45
forward.
3:46
Omar, man. Omar Epps, ladies and
3:49
gentlemen and
3:50
Yo, yo, you play a cop, man, you there's
3:52
something you bring something different
3:54
to the cop game, man. I got to give you
3:55
this, Omar, like
3:57
you know, when you was Jay Reed, it was
3:58
one way. Now, you know, now you just you
4:00
know, you a a whole different a whole
4:04
different animal as a cop. Like, I want
4:06
to know uh there's been a lot of tension
4:08
surrounding law enforcement in recent
4:10
years. It's always been there, people
4:12
calling for defunding the police.
4:14
You know, and you know, I want to do do
4:16
any of those
4:17
components play a role in how you
4:19
develop Detective Malcolm Howard and how
4:22
you play him. What's going on in the
4:24
question. That's a great question, Sway.
4:26
Actually, I mean, I think that that
4:29
those components have always been there.
4:31
You know, when you talk about law
4:32
enforcement in the black community uh in
4:35
particular, it's always been there.
4:36
There's always been some sort of a, you
4:38
know, tension or what have you, but you
4:41
know, the fun part for me was that, you
4:43
know, even though our show takes place
4:45
in the '90s, Howard, Detective Howard,
4:47
he's not from that era. You know, he's
4:49
from the Al Green, you know, Marvin Gaye
4:51
era. So,
4:53
he's even coming into a new world, like,
4:56
what's all this hippity hop hop junk?
4:58
These
5:01
You know, and so he he's he's learning
5:03
on the go as the audience learns him.
5:07
Um but
5:08
basically, like, you know,
5:10
he's someone who was indoctrinated with
5:12
a certain belief. I call him a octopus,
5:14
you know, because he he has tentacles
5:16
everywhere. He's He's from the hood, so
5:19
he knows that. He's in law enforcement,
5:21
so he knows that, but he's really about
5:23
manipulating both sides to his own
5:25
benefit. So, you know, he's a he's a
5:28
selfish slimeball.
5:33
So eloquently put right there.
5:34
Listen, way to keep it a buck.
5:36
By the way, I'mma open up the phone
5:38
lines. If you love Power, uh man, we got
5:40
Patina Miller and Omar Epps here. We'll
5:43
let you talk with them directly.
5:44
888-742-3345.
5:47
Patina, you you play a strong a strong
5:50
black mother. I've seen I've seen this
5:52
mother growing up in Oakland. I've seen
5:54
her in my house, you know, and she just
5:57
wants to protect her son, but at the
5:59
same time your family is deep in the
6:01
world of crime, this character. How do
6:02
you humanize a character like that
6:05
without inspiring someone to want to go
6:07
down that same path?
6:09
I mean, also you have to look at the
6:10
heart. For me, the biggest part was not
6:12
looking at the crime part, not looking
6:14
at all the stuff. On the surface, it's
6:16
easy to write off and, you know,
6:18
say whatever you want. I wanted to look
6:20
at
6:21
her inner motivation, what she was doing
6:23
it for. You know, Raquel is a single
6:25
black mom. It's in the '90s at that
6:28
time, you know what I mean? It's
6:29
circumstance. She she's doing what she
6:31
got to do at that point, you know? She's
6:33
the breadwinner for her family. She's
6:35
very smart. She's very curious. She's
6:37
powerful. She knows what she's doing.
6:39
So, she's using all of those things that
6:41
she she possess to get money. She also
6:44
is a strong black woman who wants to
6:47
raise her son. And that whole balance
6:50
and for me it's about finding the love,
6:51
finding connection. At the end of the
6:53
day, she's doing it for her son, you
6:55
know? And to be successful in in in her
6:59
business world and also be successful as
7:02
a mom, that for me was really important
7:05
to try to find um
7:06
what that was because, you know, her
7:09
story is is like a lot of other stories,
7:11
you know what I mean? It's not just
7:14
her you know you Yes, you she said it's
7:15
your mom, it's my mom, you know? Like I
7:18
I know my circumstance growing up. My
7:20
mom was a young mother, you know? She's
7:22
16 when she had me, so I understand what
7:24
that is. I understand being a child of a
7:26
young mother. I There's so many women
7:29
like Raquel out there, you know, single
7:31
black strong women taking on everything,
7:34
the weight of the world and making it
7:36
happen, making happen. And so for
7:38
me, I wanted to show a three-dimensional
7:41
um whole person for Raquel, not just the
7:44
strong, not just all this and that, but
7:46
the heart, why she's in it. Family is
7:48
important for her, and she's willing to
7:51
go to the end of the earth for her
7:53
family, particularly her son.
7:55
Damn.
7:55
So, it's about her my humanizing her is
7:57
just giving her heart, giving her her
7:59
struggle, her vulnerability, figuring
8:01
out what that is, you know?
8:03
Mhm. I love it, man. Patina Miller, boy,
8:05
y'all really develop these characters.
8:07
And I'm even looking at y'all
8:09
you as a person, I mean, being from
8:11
South Carolina, growing up in a single
8:13
parent home, and
8:15
winning a Tony Award.
8:18
It's a dream, man. This is This is a
8:20
dream. I got I got to tell you, I I got
8:22
that tough love, you know what I mean?
8:24
Like the the one scene in the very
8:26
beginning of the scene of the of the
8:29
show with Raquel and and uh young Kanan
8:32
and what she tried to teach him about,
8:34
you know, tough loving him. I got that,
8:36
but all of the tough love for me was
8:38
just about, you know,
8:40
teaching me how to be strong, teaching
8:42
me how to sort of, you know, accept my
8:44
failure, but continue to try to strive
8:46
for greatness, continue to try to do
8:48
what I want to do. So, it's a dream.
8:50
It's a blessing that I'm here where I
8:51
am, thinking about where I come from,
8:53
but having a single black strong woman
8:55
like my mom pushing me, you know,
8:57
whether she was crying in the bathroom,
8:59
you know, I never knew the struggle for
9:00
her. I knew it was a struggle, but she
9:03
stayed strong and stayed and made it
9:05
happen for me. And so, I know that on a
9:07
personal level what that is, you know
9:10
what I mean? Just being my having my mom
9:12
and my grandmother and and all of the
9:15
black women in my life, I know what that
9:16
is.
9:17
Love it. Patina Miller is here, ladies
9:19
and gentlemen. Patina Miller, Omar Epps,
9:21
Trace, you want to jump in?
9:23
Yeah, absolutely. I'm so happy to have
9:25
you guys on the show. I'm curious,
9:27
because when I think about films and
9:30
when I think about series, this is
9:32
probably in the last maybe like 7 years,
9:35
I've really looked at it as a whole
9:38
entity. I'm talking about not just the
9:40
stars, but all of the names in the
9:43
credits and everyone that comes in for
9:44
the collaboration. And specifically when
9:46
you're an actor and you're coming to
9:48
develop a character that has been
9:52
written, dreamt of, already kind of like
9:54
um the that character's mission
9:56
statement has been decided. Was it
9:59
always easy for you guys in your career
10:02
to say, "Hmm, I don't know if that
10:05
character would do this." Or "Hey, how
10:07
about if this person did that?" Cuz I'm
10:09
thinking about how a writer probably
10:11
like spent a full year thinking about a
10:14
character and they're like, "Wait a
10:15
minute. How do you know the character
10:16
more than me?" Was it always easy for
10:19
you guys to just lend your um thoughts
10:22
and insight on
10:24
on set?
10:26
Yeah, I mean I think it's it's always
10:28
it's always a collaboration. The those
10:31
are That's when you get the best results
10:32
because there's so many different
10:34
perspectives like like you just said,
10:36
Trace, like the writer, you know,
10:38
they're kind of in their head living
10:40
with these characters, you know, then
10:43
like a director or actor or you know,
10:45
another another person comes on board
10:47
and then they have their perspective and
10:49
you're just constantly refining refining
10:51
refining um to get to the moment when
10:54
the camera's on and and do what you do.
10:57
And then it's about what feels right.
10:59
Right? Like literally in that moment
11:01
like, "Oh, you know what? That whole
11:02
discussion we had yesterday, forget
11:03
about it. Just do that." You know what I
11:05
mean? And and and you're just kind of
11:07
constantly trying to because it you
11:09
you're constantly trying to
11:11
keep the characters grounded and keep
11:13
the situations grounded even if they're
11:16
ordinary people in extraordinary
11:18
circumstances, you know?
11:20
Um um and and and going back to like
11:23
with with with Kanan, that's what's so
11:25
beautiful about the piece to me is that
11:27
the audience knows the monster, uh you
11:31
know, and the the the the the brute that
11:34
Kanan was, but this is a story of
11:37
exploring the innocence of a teenager
11:40
who's being raised by this single mom
11:42
who's just, you know, pimply face,
11:43
awkward, you know, like we all are as
11:46
teenagers trying to figure it out. And
11:48
it's like these are the life
11:49
circumstances
11:51
and some of the decisions that he made
11:53
that led him to that place.
11:55
So, it's a it's a constant collaboration
11:57
in my opinion.
11:58
Right.
11:59
how often is 50
12:01
on on set or in the process of kind of
12:04
guiding the character of Kanan?
12:07
Is how how hands-on is he?
12:08
you know 50 busy, man.
12:10
Yeah.
12:10
50 got 50 50 busy.
12:13
50 got like a million shows, so
12:15
Yeah, he got 2,000 shows. No, but I
12:18
think with with
12:20
credit to salute to 50 and and Courtney
12:23
Kemp and Sasha Penn who actually created
12:25
it. Our show
12:27
great collaborator again.
12:29
But 50, you know, this is in essence
12:31
there's a lot of his actual life in this
12:34
story. So, it it was about being true to
12:37
that, you know what I mean? And it was
12:39
about really capturing that that essence
12:42
of authenticity.
12:44
Okay. Patina Miller is here. Power Book
12:48
III: Raising Kanan. Omar Epps, the icon,
12:51
he's here. July 18th, Sunday on Stars.
12:54
You have questions, call us up. Let's go
12:56
to Melicia who's in Mississippi. Is it
12:59
Melicia Melicia? Melicia.
13:01
Melcy.
13:03
Oh, damn. I'm all the way off, man. I'm
13:06
See, Patina, I wasn't, you know, good
13:08
thing I didn't enter no spelling bees. I
13:10
can't
13:11
Uh
13:12
but good to meet you. Grand rising Grand
13:14
rising. Say hello to these stars.
13:17
Hello, this is Melcy from Jackson,
13:19
Mississippi. I'm so excited for Stars to
13:22
come on on Sunday and I'm very excited
13:24
to see Omar back on the scene. What's up
13:27
Power family?
13:29
How you doing? How you doing?
13:32
Power family, I like that. It is a
13:33
family though, right Naturi? It's we all
13:36
we all
13:37
Absolutely.
13:38
all sitting and waiting. Now, do you
13:39
guys ever feel any pressure on making
13:41
these roles, you know, really stand out?
13:43
Like you know what I don't understand
13:45
Omar, maybe you can you can answer me
13:46
this and of both you are award-winning
13:49
actors, is I don't understand why the
13:52
series itself
13:54
hasn't won
13:55
you know, the bigger awards. I know you
13:57
it's been some NAACP awards and that's a
14:00
huge award in itself. Now, let me not
14:01
let me not say that. That's a huge award
14:03
in itself. But the Emmys, you know, the
14:05
daytime awards, why why why do you
14:07
suppose
14:09
you know, isn't it time for this show to
14:11
win some of these awards Omar?
14:14
I mean, that's that's why we got P
14:16
killer. That's what I call it.
14:19
We coming. We coming and and
14:23
you know, it's just that's a bigger
14:25
conversation, but you know, it's about
14:28
what's what's really relevant to
14:30
culture. You know, awards are all of the
14:33
awards are based on a group of people
14:36
who are deciding. So, it's like, well,
14:38
who's that group of people that are
14:39
deciding? And what are their criteria
14:41
and how do how do we give them the
14:45
credence to make decisions for all of us
14:47
when you know,
14:48
the people on the streets
14:51
at large in the community feel like
14:52
this. They feel a different way. You
14:54
know what I mean? It's so it's all it's
14:56
kind of a a game in a sense, but
14:59
I feel like
15:00
you know, with the with the show like
15:02
this and with Power in general, I just
15:05
want to say this about Courtney Kemp.
15:07
Like people have been asking me, you
15:09
know, oh, they keep they're doing all
15:11
these spin-offs and this and that. And
15:12
I'm like, yeah, well, Dick Wolf does the
15:14
same thing. You don't say nothing about
15:16
that.
15:16
Tell it. Come on.
15:17
Why you saying it about a powerful black
15:19
woman who's
15:21
you You what I mean? Like doing the same
15:23
thing. And And it's time for us to get
15:25
busy and get past these boundaries and
15:28
things that we have um in society. So,
15:30
you know, I think you know,
15:33
I'm I feel cool cuz
15:35
I'm I'm riding I'm riding the coattails
15:37
of Patina. So.
15:41
And you know, well, you know, Patina is
15:43
interesting cuz I know Omari Hardwick
15:45
Notary
15:46
Notary won three three NAACP Image
15:49
Awards. So, won a NAACP Image Award. So,
15:52
salute to the NAACP
15:54
for recognizing the show. But I you
15:56
know, I think you know, the Golden
15:58
Globes and and the Emmys should be
16:01
recognizing all of that. Should be
16:03
recognizing the show.
16:03
We want all of it, yo. You know what
16:05
time it is, wait. We want all the smoke.
16:07
We want all of it.
16:08
Mhm.
16:09
Come on, Omari. You better. Yes.
16:11
halfway. You know what I'm saying? And
16:13
And this is what it is. So, it is what
16:15
it is. Now, we out there. We put
16:17
everything into this. Yeah.
16:19
Exactly. It's a culture pusher. Um Um
16:22
Mel-C, thank you for calling in. Mel-C,
16:24
we team power. We got you. All right,
16:26
power family. All right.
16:28
Man,
16:32
she already got the popcorn popping,
16:34
Omari. She She ready. Uh Mike Mike, what
16:37
up? Mike in Maryland, what's popping,
16:38
Mike?
16:39
Hey Mikey.
16:40
on? What's going on? Grand rising. Grand
16:42
rising.
16:43
What up, king?
16:44
Yes, sir.
16:45
I'm excited. I I'mma keep it real with
16:48
you. I didn't even know that both of
16:49
y'all was on Power. Now that I know that
16:51
y'all on Power, I'm even more excited.
16:53
You know what I'm saying? To have two
16:55
black, you know, icons of the black
16:57
community, man. That's That's exciting.
16:59
And then come from where Power was to
17:01
now, you know, in the beginning I didn't
17:03
even like Power in the beginning. Like
17:05
my ex-girlfriend be like, "Let's go
17:06
watch Power." Boom, watch it with me.
17:08
I'm not watching that. I'm not watching
17:10
that. That show dumb. And now I get on
17:12
people like, "Bro, don't call Power
17:13
dumb." Like that's the best show out
17:14
here.
17:15
I really agree. Like that's the best
17:17
show out here really. I'm excited as
17:19
soon as I get off
17:20
early Monday morning I'm going straight
17:22
to my house to watch Power like that's
17:24
that's all rip. But
17:25
It's funny that you ex-girlfriend.
17:27
Right.
17:31
Yeah man I but I'm I'm just really
17:32
excited man just to know that you know
17:34
even Patina Miller you know what I'm
17:35
saying I
17:36
The Hunger Games
17:38
know you on Power man I'm excited as
17:40
well so you know I just y'all keep up
17:42
the great work man and Sway in the
17:43
morning y'all keep up the great work
17:45
Sway Tracy G y'all keep up the great
17:47
work man I'm I'm excited for all y'all
17:49
man.
17:50
Hit up Heather she on vacation this week
17:51
too. Hit up Heather you know oh you know
17:53
your girl on on the somewhere she on
17:55
somebody's beachfront I'm sure.
17:56
Yep.
17:57
HB
17:58
Happy hour.
17:59
She know you know how she does it. Hey
18:01
Mike you a citizen thank you DB DB you
18:04
want to jump in?
18:05
Yeah of course. So my question is for
18:07
for both Omar and Patina. Omar
18:10
we've had actors who have you know been
18:12
in the industry for for a number of
18:14
years who have talked about you know
18:16
they might have played a role that is
18:18
you know fans look at it as an iconic
18:20
character but then they also want to
18:22
differentiate that portrayal or that
18:24
performance from everything they do
18:26
after that. And I was just wondering how
18:28
you you know some people you don't want
18:30
people to sit there and look at DJ GQ
18:32
every time you star in a film. So I
18:34
wanted to know how you approach each
18:36
role and and look back like all right I
18:38
already did this with this character let
18:40
me find something different and and and
18:42
a different approach with this new
18:43
character I'm doing. And for Patina
18:45
you know for a lot of people this is
18:47
their first time getting to know you in
18:49
in this role. So I just wanted to know
18:51
how you
18:52
when you're performing with your
18:54
co-stars how do you stand out so that
18:56
people take notice of your abilities as
18:58
an actor and not overshadow your
19:01
co-stars.
19:04
Wow.
19:05
That's a great question.
19:07
That is yeah.
19:09
Who want to go first?
19:10
Mhm.
19:12
Uh,
19:12
I I think for me, you know, it's all
19:14
about I mean, the the I look at I look
19:17
at my career as a mosaic. And, you know,
19:21
each role is sort of a piece of a
19:24
puzzle.
19:25
Um, there's not one over the other. And,
19:28
you know,
19:29
it not only just being a black actor,
19:31
but just acting in general. Like,
19:32
sometimes you can they could try to box
19:34
you into a a certain thing. And so,
19:36
that's why,
19:37
you know, I I like to make it weird.
19:39
Like, we're just going to throw
19:40
curveballs, you know, every time that we
19:43
we can we can do it. And and and in the
19:46
process of that, you know, you have to
19:48
sometimes create your own opportunities.
19:50
Um,
19:51
because the business is is uh
19:54
it is a it's a it's a strange business,
19:56
and they'll just try to lock you in and
19:58
okay, you're the
20:00
bodybuilding guy, or you're the, you
20:01
know, the the running guy, or the the
20:04
action guy, or whatever. And, uh I mean,
20:07
even you look at someone like Kevin
20:08
Hart, who's now doing drama, or uh Tom
20:11
Hanks, or like, we all have these
20:13
capabilities. We just need the
20:15
opportunities.
20:16
Um,
20:17
and so, you know, you just have to keep
20:19
pushing and keep pushing until these
20:21
opportunities come, and then take
20:23
advantage of them.
20:25
Okay.
20:26
Yeah.
20:27
And I think for me,
20:28
um I never really worry about how I'm
20:30
going to stand out. I think for me, I
20:32
I'm I'm an actor, and I think about the
20:35
character. I think about the work. Um, I
20:37
focus on that stuff. I think about um
20:40
how can I elevate what I'm doing, right?
20:43
Like, how can I get this this this
20:45
character's point across? I never think
20:48
about, oh crap, how am I going to stand
20:49
out in this scene? I think if I'm
20:51
standing in my truth, in the character,
20:53
and really doing the work, and if it's
20:56
right, it's going to stand out anyway.
20:58
And so, I just come from place of always
21:00
trying to be grounded with each
21:01
character that I do, you know, whether
21:04
it's on stage or in a film like The
21:06
Hunger Games or now coming to Retail, I
21:10
try to find bits and pieces of um
21:13
myself and all of my characters and I
21:15
try to ground them in truth. And for me,
21:17
I'm always I always try to go for the
21:20
inner, right? Like the the the the heart
21:22
of the the character, the message and
21:25
all that. And so, I I try not to get
21:26
wrapped up in like, "Ooh, can I stand
21:28
out?" because then it just looks a hot
21:30
mess. And then it's not real and then
21:32
I'm not really in character and I'm not
21:34
being honest in what I'm doing. So, to
21:37
answer your question, I don't really
21:38
think about all of that. I just kind of
21:40
try to do the work, you know? I've
21:42
trained a lot. Um Uh I'm a trained
21:45
actress. Um I know what I'm doing and
21:47
so, you know, I stick to I stick to what
21:49
I'm doing and so, that's really it.
21:51
Talk your Patina. I hear you.
21:54
She trained. Come on, that's a Tony
21:56
Award when this ain't no
21:58
She ain't coming off of Instagram and
21:59
falling into a role.
22:01
Uh-huh.
22:01
Exactly.
22:04
She She put in the time, okay?
22:06
I've been ready. I've been ready for
22:08
this. Yeah.
22:08
There you go. If you stay ready, you
22:10
ain't got to get ready, Patina. I see
22:11
you. Give her a round of applause
22:13
talking that You know, it's our
22:14
first interview, so it's really formal
22:16
and cordial.
22:18
You know, the next one come up with all
22:20
and it's going to be a whole 'nother
22:21
different situation, Patina. Okay?
22:24
All right.
22:25
O- Omar is family. We We just We
22:27
laughing We laughing We talk, you know,
22:29
it's
22:30
You know, so but I will say this um
22:34
you know, I met you through your work,
22:35
O, you know, and some of the people you
22:37
worked with, you know, you've been solid
22:39
since day one, man, and you've been
22:41
you've been repping us 1,010%
22:44
and you are easily a pivotal
22:48
person in our culture and how we moved
22:50
it through the '90s to now. People
22:51
always say the '90s, but I say the '90s
22:53
to now moving forward. So, Omar Epps,
22:56
thank you for your contributions. You've
22:58
inspired so many different people,
23:00
brother, including myself. And I think
23:02
I'm older than you.
23:03
I appreciate that.
23:04
so thank you. All right. And Patina,
23:07
thank you for being on the show today.
23:09
Congratulations on Power.
23:11
Congratulations.
23:13
for having me.
23:14
You're killing it. Power Book III Sunday
23:16
on Stars. Make sure y'all watch it,
23:18
okay? Y'all have a beautiful day. Oh,
23:21
Pete Patina, take care. All right. Y'all
23:23
citizens.
23:24
I SWEAR TO MONEY.
23:25
YES.
23:26
Count Black.
#Arts & Entertainment