Up next in 10
Vanessa Estelle Williams Speaks on ‘Candyman’ and reminisces on ‘New Jack City’ | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
Aug 30, 2021
In present day, a decade after the last of the Cabrini towers were torn down, Anthony and his partner move into a loft in the now gentrified Cabrini. A chance encounter with an old-timer exposes Anthony to the true story behind Candyman. Anxious to use these macabre details in his studio as fresh grist for paintings, he unknowingly opens a door to a complex past that unravels his own sanity and unleashes a terrifying wave of violence.
Vanessa Estelle Williams who starred in the original spoke with Sway In The Morning about the latest installment of the Candyman series.
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
#VanessaEstelleWilliams #Candyman #candyman2021 #SwaysUniverse #SwayInTheMorning #SiriusXM #Shade45
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.
[Video Title]
[Video URL]
Show More Show Less View Video Transcript
0:00
[Applause]
0:01
she's starring in the new
0:04
starting in the new movie candy man
0:09
come on man
0:11
the remake is a direct sequel rather to
0:13
the 1992 film and i know remake is a
0:16
direct sequel
0:21
it's the fourth film in the candyman
0:23
film series man i watched that thing
0:25
last night have the bee i'm so mad at
0:29
oh my myself
0:30
i just thought because i was older to
0:32
feel different man let's play the
0:34
trailer man if you're a candyman fan
0:36
and if you're from cabrini greens in
0:38
chicago
0:40
i'm pinpointing now i'm sniper shooting
0:42
cabrini greens in chicago
0:44
eight eight eight seven four two three
0:46
three four five play the trailer man
0:48
play the trailer i feel really connected
0:50
to this story god
0:53
right here in this neighborhood
0:56
the legend started uh huh
0:59
and the legend is
1:01
if we say his name five times while
1:03
looking in the mirror we could summon
1:06
him summon the candy man hell no
1:10
candy man anthony no
1:12
candy man i don't want to get creeped
1:14
out in my new apartment before bed okay
1:17
black people don't need to be summoning
1:21
no
1:22
i dare you don't say that say his name
1:28
you want to be a part of the story right
1:30
no
1:31
oh my god say
1:32
his name
1:34
candy man
1:35
oh my gosh man we got one of the cast
1:38
members one of the stars with us right
1:40
now but she ain't just
1:43
db break it down for him break him down
1:44
who we got with us
1:46
well sway i know you like to joke a lot
1:48
about heather b being your ride or die
1:49
your right hand the enforcer if
1:51
necessary well back in 1991 when new
1:54
jack city hit theaters nino brown's
1:56
right hand writer diane forso was played
1:58
by this actress she was keisha and i got
2:00
it
2:01
baby
2:02
exactly
2:03
[Laughter]
2:06
after that she went on to star as rhonda
2:07
and merrell's place then she went on to
2:09
star as maxine and soul food and now you
2:12
can see her in this new film oh before i
2:14
get to that you can also see her this
2:15
sunday on show time on the l word
2:17
generation q but we're here to talk
2:18
about the film that is in theaters today
2:21
candyman she's back playing and marie
2:23
mccoy
2:25
welcome vanessa estelle williams vanessa
2:29
[Applause]
2:31
welcome to the show vanessa
2:34
welcome to the show welcome oh my
2:37
goodness first of all y'all get it
2:39
popping like it's so hot up here in this
2:42
morning you know i'm three hours ahead
2:44
of you or two however many um and i'm
2:47
like oh last night a dj saved my life
2:49
and this morning and all of that wicked
2:52
mix i'm like i want it in my uh in my uh
2:56
music catalog please so you'll get to
2:58
send me that mix got you hey don't play
3:00
we'll send it to you that was that was
3:02
lord sir ready for it okay we do this
3:05
every morning you know every day vanessa
3:07
so you know this is what that's what we
3:09
do rockabye baby come on
3:11
come on
3:12
come on
3:14
oh you hear that
3:17
yes
3:19
spitting those bars i wanted to ask
3:21
vanessa vanessa what's up it's heather
3:23
thank you for joining us speaking of
3:25
bars how did you feel back when that
3:27
head banger joint came out with red man
3:29
and epmd and k solo when they were like
3:32
rock-a-bye baby did you go crazy when
3:34
you heard that
3:36
my god that was so funny i was like
3:37
where's my check that's right
3:40
[Laughter]
3:44
i was like let me inspire you and you
3:47
inspire me right back my dude
3:49
no of course it's flattering like real
3:52
dark okay
3:53
but uh but no it's so flattering it's uh
3:56
it's just marvelous and amazing you know
3:58
when you when you're doing a project you
3:59
don't necessarily know how it's going to
4:01
hit you know the audience and definitely
4:04
don't know how it's going to hit the
4:05
zeitgeist of the culture and so it's
4:07
just been a marvelous ride you know in
4:09
my this expanded career of mine that i'm
4:12
keep going keep going
4:14
because you know i'm still here so i got
4:16
to keep doing what i came here to do you
4:18
know so it's just marvelous to be
4:20
relevant and for people to be receiving
4:23
what i what i'm offering
4:25
that's dope i love it man where you from
4:27
you from brooklyn where are you from
4:29
oh i say baby look who don't come for me
4:31
like you don't know
4:34
what i'm doing
4:36
i'm not talking about this regentrify
4:38
action we got going on stuff for biggie
4:40
brooklyn okay
4:47
that's mine that's mine okay okay i like
4:50
that vanessa what was it like growing up
4:52
in the biggie era though were you were
4:54
you around these guys
4:56
listen i i was a good girl okay i was a
4:59
very very good girl i had to come in
5:00
when street lights came on that's that
5:01
that was but i was
5:03
making my way as an actress and an
5:05
artist so i was an extra in videos you
5:08
know i was in will's first video i was
5:10
uh you know the girl in the car the 12
5:13
year old run away and i was working with
5:14
him and going guy can really act you
5:16
know i'm like all my thespian coats on
5:18
and and i go in there you know make some
5:21
cash you know so i don't have to wait on
5:23
tables
5:24
and um you know so i i met um so many
5:27
people that way um
5:29
all just a part of growing up i did a
5:31
video with those guys and um
5:34
and you know a number a different a
5:36
number of different videos you know just
5:37
like staying relevant you know this is
5:39
how i had to um make make earn my living
5:44
people don't realize how many careers
5:47
music videos launched right hp like so
5:50
many people have found a career doing
5:52
music videos what would you say is the
5:54
equivalent today to that vanessa would
5:56
it be what you do on your social media
5:59
would it be ig videos yeah it's such a
6:01
whole different world now i mean yeah i
6:04
think maybe the tick tock space maybe
6:07
i mean what's so um encouraging and
6:09
beautiful about
6:11
and so sort of like apples and oranges
6:13
you can't really compare it's just the
6:15
opportunity for people to like not have
6:18
to wait for permission to tell their
6:20
creative story to direct their own
6:22
narrative and really just get out there
6:23
because they have to create and it's
6:25
been really amazing and wonderful to see
6:28
people really utilize their platform
6:30
people like isha issa rae and and really
6:33
like keep at it keep adding keep at it
6:35
and um and people get a clue and are
6:38
able to translate that or transfer what
6:41
they're doing to the big screen you know
6:43
to television and film you know and and
6:46
it's just you know it's a hustle it's a
6:47
grind it's a grind for your life
6:50
but you know when you're struggling with
6:51
that but with that bug you gotta you
6:53
gotta do it you know that's like oh man
6:55
that's the air you breathe you grew up
6:57
in big e brooklyn man you ain't a
6:59
quitter come on it was all a dream
7:10
you get that muscle you really do
7:12
i'm curious i i'll be remiss if i didn't
7:15
ask you about this and we're going to
7:16
talk about this candyman film
7:19
um
7:20
wesley snipes
7:22
you know mario man peoples chris rock
7:25
christopher williams iced tea uh bill
7:29
cobbs i mean all of these
7:31
iconic figures you got to work with on
7:33
new jack city what is your fondest
7:36
memories of working on that set
7:39
i mean justin being down you know being
7:42
equal with one of the with the boys you
7:44
know like i grew up in a house full of
7:45
brothers you know and so it was my first
7:48
film ever you know i didn't know
7:50
anything about the lens you know mario
7:53
mario and i tell the story about how
7:55
he's like thinking get in the kitchen
7:57
get in the picture vanessa was shooting
7:58
this big crowd screen it's a two-shot i
8:00
don't know a too shy from i'm really
8:02
used to the stage you know it's like
8:04
here i am just get me and you know he's
8:06
like do you want to be in the film
8:07
unless he wants to and i have no idea
8:09
what he's saying of course now i know i
8:10
was like edging i was too far to one
8:12
side and how to stay you know close to
8:14
the other actor so i'm in this two shot
8:16
but i didn't have a clue i mean those
8:18
are some funny funny moments that i that
8:20
i got right i finally had to get right
8:22
that big wedding scene in green's
8:25
in harlem was just dope but the whole
8:28
experience was just thrilling and
8:30
life-changing and just marvelous it
8:33
wasn't like a dull moment and it was
8:35
always so amazing you know what also was
8:37
amazing this this amazing party that
8:40
howard university gave for us where the
8:42
girls were literally recreating like uh
8:45
i want to sex you up on top of the car
8:47
trying to get it uh trying to get an
8:49
allen and wesley and it's so it was so
8:53
so funny and just like i was like oh my
8:55
god these guys are out of control
8:57
and it was oh sorry that's my that was
8:59
my alarm didn't wake my ass up um
9:02
that was your alarm right there
9:04
yeah yeah did you hear that
9:07
your alarm was late
9:09
no no no that was like that was the
9:11
reason that was the uh
9:13
are you up are you up okay um okay um
9:17
but you know just it was such a fabulous
9:19
experience and you know i went to high
9:21
school with with uh with wesley he left
9:24
performing arts he didn't graduate there
9:26
but you know so it was family it was
9:28
just such a marvelous reunion to come
9:30
home and work with um just all of the
9:33
marvelous cast that that new jack city
9:35
was
9:36
wow and remains today
9:38
i'll share this with you um just one
9:40
degree of separation heather this is
9:43
there's no right no no no no separation
9:46
but okay there you go cool okay i'll
9:47
share this with you your cousin was
9:49
almost there you know because the new
9:50
jack city soundtrack hp
9:53
was put out by giant warner brothers
9:57
okay and giant warner brothers at that
9:59
time
10:00
was irving azoff
10:02
uh
10:04
um charlie miner and um cassandra all
10:08
these different folks that worked there
10:10
the group colored me bad at that time
10:12
vanessa i got signed me and my partner
10:16
king tech swaying tech got signed the
10:18
giant warner brothers and i remember the
10:21
color me i mean i remember the new jack
10:23
city soundtrack was like something we
10:25
all wanted to be on and they selected
10:27
certain groups from the label and they
10:29
didn't select us vanessa
10:32
oh
10:33
yeah
10:34
our our our loss man
10:38
it was it i mean you know mario talks
10:40
about just how integral the music was
10:42
yeah to the success of the movie to his
10:45
to his planet his vision you know he's
10:47
he's a
10:48
a tip off his his father's block you
10:50
know and um
10:52
and uh melvin van people's and so it
10:54
runs in the blood his son um his son
10:57
mandela i believe is also an actor and
10:59
director as well so it just it just was
11:02
so it's so marvelous when we do these
11:04
panel discussions we had recently we had
11:06
a reunion with michael michelle and alan
11:09
payne and a whole bunch of us on
11:10
clubhouse
11:11
um of the movie it was just so dynamic
11:14
and it's just as i said marvelous to
11:16
hear mario just talk about his vision
11:18
and his plan everything was so
11:20
thoughtful you know at a time when i did
11:22
you know i'm just trying to be in the
11:23
movie so i have no idea about what you
11:25
know what how the kind of crafting and
11:28
skill it takes to tell this long long
11:30
staying story and and all of it was so
11:34
uh intentional it's just marvelous to
11:36
hear him break it down and the music was
11:39
certainly certainly part of that yeah i
11:41
felt like it was our loss not yours the
11:43
to the soundtrack
11:45
did great but you know
11:46
almost was almost there uh db i know you
11:49
had a question you almost have it all
11:51
yeah almost but we still got time come
11:54
on all right that's what i'm saying
11:57
absolutely db you want to jump in
11:59
absolutely man candyman is one of my
12:01
favorite horror franchises and that's
12:03
why i'm so excited to get to talk to
12:05
somebody who actually was in the
12:06
original uh back in 1992 and i don't
12:09
want to spoil too much about how that
12:11
original film and this one are
12:13
correlated but um citizens
12:15
if you plan on seeing this movie and i
12:17
hope you do you need to go see it you
12:18
need to watch the original as well to
12:20
understand the characters and and you
12:22
know who's who and that sort of thing
12:24
but uh vanessa there was something
12:27
really interesting that i found out
12:28
because i like to dig and find out all
12:29
the backstory when when films are made
12:31
and there was a story that i read and
12:33
maybe you can confirm this uh there was
12:35
a woman by the name of ruthie mae mccoy
12:38
who was killed in cabrini green when uh
12:41
some intruders were made their way
12:43
behind her walls and invaded her
12:46
apartment and people her neighbors
12:48
called the police and the police didn't
12:49
believe her and she ended up getting
12:52
killed and robbed and that sort of
12:54
inspired what happens to your neighbor
12:56
in the original candyman and okay
12:58
obviously it wasn't candyman who killed
12:59
the the actual person but my question is
13:02
did any of those real stories come back
13:06
in this film like did any crazy you know
13:09
stories from the news inspire any
13:11
situations in this new candyman
13:14
well absolutely it is so
13:17
so it ties in to the to the original 92
13:21
version of the film and it is so current
13:24
you know it's a must-see it's a must-see
13:26
it's like it's not even like a question
13:29
and you know i'm a scaredy cat you know
13:31
i'm in horror films and horror genre but
13:34
i get frightened real real easily but
13:36
this movie is so important as a cultural
13:40
icon you know tying it all back in it's
13:43
not necessary that you see the the first
13:46
movie but it just makes it so much more
13:48
of a fulfilling um
13:50
and satisfying uh experience to have
13:53
them both and you can watch them in any
13:54
order you know really you don't have to
13:56
wait till you watch it go see candyman
13:58
in the theater starting tonight i got a
14:00
whole group of people meeting me at the
14:01
theater tonight i'm so thrilled and
14:02
excited but it it's it's so marvelous
14:05
that
14:06
i mean the thing that's been so haunting
14:08
about
14:09
um those stories that this movie is
14:11
crafted from is that they are rooted in
14:14
truth right and that's the thing that's
14:15
so traumatizing about you know our urban
14:18
legends and then what you know the
14:20
impact of that movie and this
14:22
particularly cabrini green because there
14:24
were so many murders going on the major
14:27
major difference that's so satisfying
14:29
particularly for a black person right is
14:31
that now the narrative is shaped by us
14:34
and it's so amazing to see the
14:37
difference it it makes you know it like
14:40
lynn manuel says it matters who tells
14:42
the story right who lives you guys who
14:44
tells your story and so um i love to
14:46
quote
14:48
jordan peel when he says you know
14:50
at the center of candyman is the eternal
14:52
dance between monster and victim
14:55
and the racial history of this country i
14:57
mean it's so it's so rooted in that
15:00
that's the central question the central
15:02
thing that we're looking and unpacking
15:04
and who tells it whether it's the white
15:06
gates or to today's version the
15:08
unapologetic black gaze makes all the
15:11
difference in the world into setting it
15:12
straight into really contextualizing
15:14
what's going on right now today and to
15:16
keeping the warning going about
15:19
systematic racism and and how we get
15:22
over as black people and how we heal
15:24
it's so artfully done all of the
15:26
different um ways you know it's helmed
15:28
by a woman to some a black woman so all
15:31
of those are aesthetic as a filmmaker
15:34
yeah mia decosta crafted this marvelous
15:36
script crafted by and produced by jordan
15:39
peel and and the other monkey paw
15:41
partner when rose himself so it's just
15:44
so thoughtful and and it's not
15:46
disappointing it's everything we've been
15:48
waiting this whole year from last year
15:50
for it to come out it's not going to
15:52
disappoint it's really going to uplift
15:54
and and scare the bejesus out of you
15:56
again
15:58
i love it i love it man we got to give
16:00
it up for our guests here today she
16:02
actually playing anne marie mccoy in the
16:04
film vanessa e williams
16:06
um
16:08
estelle i'm sorry what's this vanessa
16:10
says
16:11
i wanted to ask vanessa about that too
16:13
since she's like straightening things
16:14
out
16:15
it was kind of i don't know if i
16:17
overheard this or i read it somewhere
16:19
it's a folktale
16:21
that you because of obviously
16:24
miss america vanessa williams you guys
16:26
carry the same name but it was you that
16:28
was able to use it and she had to add
16:31
the l because you registered your name
16:33
first is that true is this like some
16:35
kind of hollywood
16:36
yes no that's absolutely the actual
16:39
story and you know how things go
16:42
and who's what's what's happening you
16:44
know what's more popular at any given
16:46
time and some you know some clerk at
16:49
paramount
16:50
attached an a to my name all these like
16:52
different middle initials that wasn't
16:53
even my middle initial and you know
16:56
because people are the press you're
16:57
thinking oh there's some distinction i
16:59
know there's two of them you know the
17:00
funny thing is that from my childhood
17:02
going to elementary school with with
17:04
such a you know common uncommon name
17:07
vanessa williams that i had that same
17:09
thing going on in my in my elementary
17:11
school in kindergarten like there was a
17:12
vanessa l williams and the vanessa e
17:15
williams you know in my in my elementary
17:17
class so i should have been prepared but
17:19
you know jesse
17:20
you know what i'm saying it's a new day
17:22
uh we're post pandemic i've got all
17:25
these projects going out i wanted to be
17:26
clear you know just to encompass and
17:29
my whole god-given name my mama name yes
17:31
and just encompass the whole thing so
17:33
you know exactly who you get and who you
17:35
and who uh there's no confusion and no
17:37
strangling straggling any middle
17:39
initials any way to get people um so
17:42
it's a mouthful but you know people say
17:43
sarah jessica parker so you could say
17:45
vanessa's del williams disease i love it
17:47
no that's not a mouse an easy smooth
17:49
name that rolls out that rolls off your
17:50
tongue vanessa is still william why is
17:53
it that she had the business prowess to
17:54
register her name like how fly is that
17:58
yeah it didn't been done you might be
17:59
here
18:00
um i wanna everybody's rebranding right
18:04
why not it's a new world this is the new
18:07
world
18:07
right so you might as well uh uh take
18:10
advantage of it i wanna ask you about
18:12
tony todd
18:14
sure um
18:16
man man listen i'm not really a horror
18:19
movie person no more vanessa is still
18:21
yeah you know i don't like to put images
18:24
in my subconscious mind that's gonna
18:26
come back to haunt me some other day
18:28
down the line right
18:29
now we got to do our work to stay home
18:31
but we got to be careful with the images
18:33
coming to our minds yeah but i needed to
18:35
study up for this so i had to watch a
18:37
movie
18:38
right
18:41
quite pleasant to do by the way i'm open
18:43
up the phone lines to anyone who ever
18:44
said candyman in the mirror more than
18:47
once call up 888-742-3345
18:50
right but todd terry man this guy really
18:53
embraced that horror genre
18:55
so well that whenever i see him in other
18:57
things i mean i just you know i kind of
18:59
oh they go candy man you know
19:03
and so tell share something with me now
19:06
when i see this man because he's so
19:07
excellent at what he does that's not
19:09
gonna make me think of him what does not
19:12
think a candy man what is he like off
19:14
camera
19:15
oh he's a gentle giant i mean first of
19:18
all he's so tall like i think he's like
19:20
six five six seven i don't know he's
19:22
just an enormous you know person
19:24
um but so gentle thoughtful creative
19:28
dynamic i mean i think you know
19:31
it's so haunting that that image of
19:34
tony todd as the candy man because he's
19:36
so embracing his amazing voice so his
19:38
instrument
19:40
his his his instrument his body his
19:42
voice you know that they that they um
19:45
dialed up the voice and you know did all
19:46
these like uh things with it to make it
19:48
even more
19:50
intimidating and haunting and uh what i
19:53
remember is like just passing him you
19:55
know in the in the makeup trailer as
19:57
he's there like three hours before we
19:59
even start shooting getting all of that
20:01
hive stuff put on his body the hook you
20:05
know it's really you know that's
20:06
prosthetic uh makeup it takes hours to
20:09
do it it's so uncomfortable it's you're
20:11
in the heat and then on top of that
20:13
you're trying to act and stay
20:15
concentrated and and emote you know all
20:18
you know do what's required from the
20:20
script i mean it it's it's a task it's a
20:22
rea it's a huge huge task but he's so
20:25
well trained and awesome for it so
20:28
there's no way that like you can't you
20:30
can't think of him in that role but as
20:33
any actor you know you don't want to get
20:34
pigeonholed right into one thing you
20:36
want to be able to transform but for
20:38
sure i mean it makes sense that you know
20:40
it's hard not to see him as that when
20:41
you see him in other things but it's
20:43
he's just marvelous he's a really really
20:45
sweet man i was like it was like i said
20:48
it was my first
20:49
film like i did new jack city and then i
20:52
came to la just like check it out and
20:54
that was my first feature film and
20:56
that's the thing that made me stay and
20:57
was like okay i'll see what y'all got
20:58
going over here in l.a
21:03
yeah yeah i'm from the west coast you
21:05
got a vibe we like you uh okay so good
21:08
so now when i see him i can see i can
21:11
think of something different we're
21:12
talking about candyman which is in
21:14
theaters today citizens it's a fun
21:17
movie but it will keep you on the edge
21:19
of your seat but to the point you were
21:21
making the context of the stories and
21:23
what it stands for it's really
21:24
interesting the way the stories are
21:26
being told tiffany's on the line from
21:28
north carolina tiffany grand rises
21:31
[Applause]
21:32
hi
21:33
everybody hi vanessa rocco bye baby
21:38
all right anthony i love this
21:40
interacting with the audience what's up
21:41
tiffany
21:43
how are you i was just calling to say
21:46
that i hope that this version of
21:48
candyman is as good as what we have back
21:50
when
21:51
um
21:52
and i hope this young man does tony
21:54
todd's role justice because
21:57
i can just still remember i was telling
21:58
my son i said tony todd was this sexy
22:01
old man with that deep voice whatever
22:03
they did to it i said but we didn't play
22:06
those games when i was a kid you never
22:08
had to tell me to try something i would
22:10
just believe it so even though it was
22:13
folk or legend or whatever it was just a
22:15
little detail i would never say candy
22:17
man five times because it it just stayed
22:20
in your mind and like we don't do that i
22:23
don't do we don't do that black people
22:29
wait a minute tiffany you really
22:31
wouldn't look in the mirror and say
22:32
candyman because of the movie
22:35
oh no sir why would i do that cabrini
22:37
cabrini green was real even the candy
22:40
man wasn't so nice
22:42
[Laughter]
22:44
and i'm 51 years old
22:48
i never did it either way you did that i
22:50
did like two times like i was i was
22:52
scared to get to three
22:54
you know um i did do it two times though
22:57
you're asking me
22:58
[Laughter]
23:00
and you're a man and you wouldn't do it
23:02
you're a man and you wouldn't do it no i
23:05
didn't do it jeez i got two off though
23:08
tiff i got two off
23:10
okay
23:12
that's why you're still here
23:16
that's why i'm still here only there too
23:18
tiff thank you for calling you're a
23:19
citizen man
23:27
just know that
23:28
anybody say candyman in the mirror five
23:31
times eight eight eight seven four two
23:33
three
23:42
are you in arizona
23:44
i am uh it's it's not hot yet um i mean
23:48
if you want to call 95 cool
23:51
damn it was like 117 yesterday
23:53
[Music]
23:56
wow they cook in arizona it was out
23:57
there pretty terrible wow yeah i don't
23:59
like it i'm from i'm from l.a so i'm not
24:01
used to this
24:02
wow he's from l.a and it's too hot
24:05
uh you're you're a candy man fan
24:08
i am um i watched the original film uh
24:12
when it uh you know hit like the hbo
24:15
cable stream
24:16
and i was i want to say like
24:19
maybe six or seven years old and i've
24:22
been terrified of that movie ever since
24:23
i'm 36 years old now
24:27
i want to say
24:28
that night that i watched it the the
24:31
very ending scene uh where right before
24:33
it cuts the credits where that lady pops
24:35
up to the mirror pissed myself
24:38
right there on the floor oh
24:40
baby
24:41
wow
24:43
and then
24:45
uh getting out of my bed to turn on the
24:48
light in my bedroom so i would jump from
24:51
my bed to the doorway where the uh where
24:53
the light switch was without touching
24:55
the ground just to get to the light
24:56
switch because i thought the candyman
24:58
was under my bed
25:03
say something vanessa this is your fault
25:08
i think i it made me a fan because of
25:10
how terrified i was like
25:14
like made me sit there and think that
25:15
this was really gonna happen
25:18
and even through my my teenage years and
25:20
as an adult like i have a hard time
25:22
sitting through the whole movie
25:24
but i'm gonna try and do it this time
25:26
because i want to see the new one and
25:28
you know as i've gotten older i've
25:30
started to realize you know what the
25:31
movie was really about and you know
25:33
uh
25:35
slavery and and and you know
25:37
how black men were really done wrong
25:40
back in that time
25:47
oh yeah exactly so i appreciate it i'm
25:50
gonna check it out tonight
25:52
hey bubba what you gonna check out
25:53
tonight
25:56
uh candyman the new one i'm uh wait wait
25:59
hold up bubba what was that you said
26:01
don't don't even don't even
26:03
get nothing you almost had you saw it
26:08
vanessa we deal with this every day with
26:10
sweat
26:12
i feel like living on the edge i'm on
26:14
the edge
26:15
hey bubba you're a citizen
26:17
come on
26:18
in hey wait hold up somebody said they
26:21
said it five times
26:23
for real okay we got kevin in new
26:25
orleans here calf grim rising new
26:28
orleans of course hey y'all y'all doing
26:30
sweet we met essence and you thought you
26:32
knew me
26:33
oh word okay i feel like i know you
26:36
i feel like i know you now okay
26:39
okay well good it was a good it was a
26:41
good meeting
26:42
yeah definitely well you took a picture
26:44
with me and uh my girlfriend took a
26:46
picture of us
26:47
okay that's what's up
26:49
tag me on it all right yo what made when
26:52
did you say it five times how old were
26:54
you
26:54
i was in second grade
26:57
in the french quarters at this um middle
26:59
school
27:00
and it was like me with these five other
27:01
white kids
27:02
and we did it nothing happened and i
27:04
told him about bloody mary and we did
27:06
that and nothing happened
27:09
you think nothing happened just going
27:11
for it he was just going for all of it
27:13
but you know what yeah i'm one of those
27:15
i was always one of those guys that said
27:16
like you know i do stunts too so i was
27:18
like well you know i'll try it i don't
27:20
you know i don't think nothing's gonna
27:21
happen
27:23
huh
27:24
i don't know man i'm gonna let you go
27:26
mama in them was praying that's why
27:31
it was praying on them huh you sure
27:33
nothing happened kev maybe you know
27:35
maybe
27:36
your life could have took a different
27:37
turn man
27:39
hey i was looking for the adventure i
27:41
didn't nothing happened
27:42
didn't you hey you got balls because
27:43
candy man farewell to the flesh was shot
27:45
in new orleans
27:47
yeah it was and yaya is from new orleans
27:51
y'all's from new orleans right oh man
27:54
okay don't sleep man he ain't through
27:56
with you yet
27:57
[Laughter]
28:00
shout out to yaya abdul mateen on the
28:03
second man he killed it in there too man
28:05
get that dude a big round of applause as
28:07
well pun intended there it is he killed
28:09
it
28:10
kev you're a citizen man sway in the
28:12
morning thank you man we're not going to
28:14
hang out again they wow yeah
28:16
look
28:17
you said candy man five times
28:20
yeah i said it five times man ain't
28:22
nothing happened man
28:25
i just did it okay i heard y'all talk
28:27
about it oh you just did it yeah i i as
28:30
a kid when i was a kid i was a grown man
28:32
when a candy man came out i believe we
28:35
had to come out
28:37
uh db
28:38
the first one was in 92.
28:41
yeah i was a full grown man i was 20
28:42
years old 92
28:45
ain't nothing happened so i did it
28:47
then i did it again just now nothing
28:51
yet
28:51
okay
28:55
yeah
28:56
what's that right there latik
28:58
when you close your eyes latik say it in
29:02
the dark
29:03
when you're by yourself
29:05
candyman
29:06
candyman
29:08
candyman
29:10
imma save you those other two latik
29:12
you're a citizen brother you're a
29:13
citizen man
29:14
come on man i don't know
29:16
i don't know vanessa no
29:18
i don't know
29:20
[Applause]
29:23
things get unleashed
29:25
unwanted undesirable things get
29:28
unleashed this is why ann marie uh you
29:31
know
29:32
has been holding on and holding this
29:35
secret and it was a pack that no one is
29:38
supposed to conjure once we got through
29:39
it the first time
29:41
we're not supposed to say it ever again
29:44
um
29:45
yeah man that's the most i've ever said
29:46
it vanessa still i said other two for
29:48
when we hang out okay
29:50
see
29:51
don't even know
29:56
i'm not playing at all just play the
29:57
music don't just play the music okay
29:59
there you go okay well listen we want to
30:01
thank you for being on the show us
30:02
absolute pleasure to have you on can't
30:04
wait to have you on in person vanessa
30:06
estelle williams citizens make sure you
30:08
check out candyman it's in theaters
30:11
today i watched it it's a great piece of
30:14
work awesome the cinematography the way
30:17
the story moves
30:18
it's just a is this a brilliant piece
30:20
congratulations for being part of
30:22
another big cult hit
30:24
okay thank you thank you my dear god
30:27
bless and have a great night
30:30
congratulations and many more keep
30:32
picking up girl
30:34
keep doing it talk to y'all again soon
30:36
bye-bye candy man candy
30:41
[Music]
30:53
you
#Arts & Entertainment