You're listening to Comedy Central. Wow, how are you? I'm doing really well. I was just gonna say the same thing. I know, so, uh, you have two movies out. It's crazy. What the hell won't he do it? He will do it all the time. And I just said to myself, I was like, boy, better heard up, can get another job because I'm gonna have a whole year where nothing comes out. You know how this goes. It's beast or famine, right, right? So how did you do that? You shot one movie Monday, Wednesday,
Friday number on Thursday. Yeah, Sunday too. They had me working on a Sundow No. I actually, um, it's just the timing of the release stage worked out this way. Yeah. That's great, that's great. And okay, so when you people, you got Eddie Murphy, Julia, Louis dreffe Is, Jonah Hill. I've worked with all of them, uh and Kenya two. Yeah. Um, but see what you you got to actually work with
Eddie Murphy. When I worked with Eddie was it was not even professor too, and I pretty much worked with a tennis ball because he was some days I'll get one Eddie Murphy, but he was he was you know, all in the makeup is greeny, and then it's exhausting. So sometimes the off camera stuff, I know, the tennis ball thing, I did that with Martin Lawrence. I mean you kind of with Big Mama's Hopes, right, same kind of concept. He was there, he was there for every
single shot. Wow. Yeah, no prosthetic makeup in this one. So he was there and he was wonderful, and I was so excited to finally be old enough to play his wife. For years it was like, oh no, you're too young, like you know, right, and now the men always get the younger women. So here we are there you go. So and then your other movie, uh missing, Yes, that's that's kind of like, uh you like the Black Woman Liam Neeson and taken right, that was storm Read
because she's on a mission to find me. And you know what's great about the film is everything is shot through some sort of technical device. So it's either an iPhone, a ring cam, you know, a secret phone that's like planted on set somewhere. So every every rule that I've learned about, you know, film and television, I had to throw out the window because there were no overs, there were no it was just shoot and don't ask questions, because if you ask questions, you will be more confused.
So I just had to trust the process. I would have been like with the camera's like, hey, get that from under my chin I had, I had Mum's Atlantis. Oh yeah, shoot me from a fan. And I tell you there's a moment in the film that actually applies to exactly what you're saying where I had to like shoot my own coverage in on the cell phone and I'm like going like this, I'm like, nope, don't roll it yet. Nope, no, no, no, okay, there we gonna start. A woman knows her light and her angles after a
certain amount of time. Yes, well, this is as I think. It's a it's it's great to see, you know, a black woman in this this type of role. You know, it's like taking over like a drama thing. So like maybe you can like take over like the John Wick. Uh yeah, yeah, it could be like John Wick is like they killed her edges and now she wants the binge. Yes, no more lace front. That's right. As long as I can wear this code, I'll play whatever character it is.
Fancy you are very fancy me along, well, you know what happened as I went to Dubai right before I came here to see Beyonce, and she was incredible. I was like literally crying. Wow, I was crying in the audience. I'm like a true fan, and that was my first Beyonce concert, so to see it in Dubai was like one of those moments that I will remember for the rest of my life. So everything in Dubai is blingy, and I'm kind of not blingy, but everything I packed kind of okay. Then we go, okay, we go, but
everything I packed was blingy. So I'm sorry, but it's just okay, I got it. I got to ask you something real quick. I have to ask you something because because I know how how it goes. So recently, I'm gonna read it that there was a headline right where you said, I quote black movies and black famous only hold us back. Yes, you want to clear that shit up because you know it's not written with those because you know they take one headline and take me to something.
So that again, let me see that again. Turns like the black movies and black famous only hold us back? Okay, So what I mean by you know what I mean, But so for them, for the white people in the audience. What I mean by that is, if we continue to practice this idea of separatism, we continue to divide. And I will always and forever hold my fist up because
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