This is Later with Lee Matthews, The Lee Matthews Podcast More What You Here weekday afternoons on the Drive You Know with Evete Nicole Brown, from a lot of things, Entourage, psych Curb Your Enthusiasm, My favorite was Community. She's in a new series that's on Bounce. It's called Act Your Age and the Vete Nicole Brown is with us. How do you do? I'm good, Lee? How are you? This is a series that takes place and
it's among three friends in their fifties in Washington, DC. It's unusual that we have a series that takes place in Washington, DC that's not about politics, right right. I mean there's a little bit with my daughter. Maria Robinson plays my daughter on this show. She's a little bit in the political realm. And my character was the first lady of Norfolk, Virginia. So
there's a little bit of politics. But it's really a show about, you know, three friends who are a different at a crossroads, different places in their lives and used to live together and celebrate and support each other as they make their way through. And are you drawing on any personal experience with this? You know, no, thankfully, I haven't reached the age where I
have to do my Golden Girls of faith. But I have told my friends, I said, listen, one of us has got to get the house, and when it's time, we're gonna come together and eat some cheesecake and take care of each other. But though it's I, you know, aside from just you know, just having great girlfriends I adore and I am there for them and they're there for me, the cohabitation part of it is not in my life at all. Evette. Nicole Brown is with us. You
know. We're from that seventy show Boston legal community. You've done so many things in your career already, Yvette. And you when you started, you didn't even have an agent. Well, I had an agent, but I wasn't booking, So I got dropped by that agent right when I was blessed to get my first real role on Girlfriends. So it's something for people to realize that when it's meant for you, it's going to happen. I sent
a postcard to Robbie Read and I didn't have anything. There was no reason she should have brought me in, and she just said, let me take a chance on this kid, and ended up doing two episodes on a hit sitcom with no credit to no agents. So it's amazing what can happen when you just take a chance. One of the things I noticed about your role in Community is you're wonderful with your facial expressions. There really doesn't have to
be any dialogue from your character. We always know what she's thinking. Yeah, that was one of the blessings of playing Shirley. Early in my career, I wasn't I think I was the number four on the call sheet, so I wasn't like one of the main stars of the show, and so I didn't have a lot of lines in a lot of scenes, but I was still on the screen, and so I thought, well, let me
give somebody something to look at it. They look over here to this corner, and so I started raising my eyebrow and grunting and just doing little interesting things that became kind of Shirley's whole character and personality. And I'm so glad people enjoyed it. Yeah, it was always I was always laughing so much
at her. But even when you didn't say anything, you know, you said it best when you said nothing at all and you say a lot and event Nicole Brown and act your age on Bounce TV, also with Kim Whitely and Tisha Campbell. And you worked with them before, haven't you. Whitley yea, yeah, yes, I never worked with them before. Kim, Yes, I've worked with Kim before. I had been on a show with Tiha, but we didn't have scenes together. So this is the first time
that I get to actually work with Kim Whitley and Tisha Campbell. And they are two legends in this industry. And I think I mentioned Mariah Robinson and Nathan Anderson who played my daughter and kim Son respective respectively, And it's just it's just really a friend set. Like guess the best way I can describe
it aleson files. Our creator created a runaway for us to just take off and fly every episode, and each episode, which air Saturdays at eight pm, one Bounce, they just get better and better and we got sixteen total for you to enjoy this first season and Bounced. I'm glad you mentioned that Bounce TV is where you can see at your age. You know, I've
noticed I've been to Washington DC a number of times. When you walk through Washington, DC, you can't help but get that feeling of how much how many important decisions are being made just steps away from you, Right, Can you imagine like behind every building something that's happening that could change your life. Yeah, and the life of the nation. And so uh. You know, I don't know that the citizens of Washington, DC. Do they just kind of go with the flow? Do they continue to feel that way or
is it? Is it something they just don't even think about? You know, I bet because if they live there, they're just accepting that that's what happened. You know, if you lived in a town and make Coca cola, you would just know behind those doors they're making some delicious cola, Right, you just accept it and keep moving. Event Nicole Brown, you know, or from Entourage site Curb Your Enthusiasm and many more. Now she's an act your Age which is on Bounce TV. Uh, and it's about women
who active, women who are in or the Washington, DC area. And for you, what, how do you prepare for roles? Is there is there a a certain is there a certain process you go through when you get ready for a role. Yeah. I try to decide who well first, I try to decide what she will found. Like I hope that if anyone watches anything I've done. My characters on TV all have their own vocal padence.
I try to give them their own personality, So I try to figure out what she sounds like first, and then after that, when you get the wardrobe on, and in certain cases you put the hair on, you look in the mirror and you go, Okay, well there's Angela Martin, and you just know how to carry yourself. It's all on the page for
most of these shows. Alison Fouson, Ronado Shepherd and Sarah Jones and our other writers are such great writers that everything you need to know about who this woman is is already on the page, and you just show up and perform what they've created, and event Nicole Brown brings it to life in Act Your Age, which is Saturdays on Bounce, along with Kim Whitley and Titia Campbell and many many others and projects you have working in the pipeline. Right now,
you sound like you never you never sleep. I just did a great film with Rain Wilson, Amy Carrero and Little ral Howard called Code Three that's going to be coming out. We're still filming that, and then I've got two great shows. I want to talk about I have Shape Island on Apple TP plus, which is for young people. It's a great show about three shapes a square, a circle, and a triangle and how they they work
together, kind of like how we do on Act Your Age. And then I have another great show on Netflix animated called My Dad the Bountie Hunter and it's a it's a black family in space. So just that's all you need to know to tune in and enjoy it. So all of that plus Act your Age is what's happening right now for me. Well, that's yeah, that's another thing. You do a lot of voice work. Do you enjoy doing that more than being on camera? I don't know about more, but
I enjoyed a lot because I can do it in my pajamas. Yeah, that's the best thing. I go in my booth and no one has to see me and I get to create a character with just my voice. It's wonderful and that's why I'm doing what I do with that. Nicole Brown, We'll look forward to seeing you and Act your Age Saturdays on Bounce and we
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