April 9, 2026 • 35 mins
Halle Bailey & Will Packer on You, Me & Tuscany, Music, Girls Trip 2 & Wild Stories! + More
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
What's up?
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Its way up for Angela Yee and my little baby
Halle Bellies here you grown up now?
Speaker 1 (00:09):
But grown up hi?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
And Bill Packer is here and what's happening? Oh man,
I'm so excited for this new movie. I love a
rom com. You Me and Tuscany is out tomorrow, so
congratulations and theaters.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Yes, And you have to say that you got to
be very very clear, because I've had people come up
to me, Oh my gosh, that looks amazing. Whit Netflix?
My god, this is not we got to break that
that have it?
Speaker 4 (00:32):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
This is about putting that phone down and going to
the big screen having an experience.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Isn't it a crazy time when people are so used
to streaming that if it's in the theaters, it's like wait,
hold on, in theaters it feels weird. Yeah, But going
to the theater is different now.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
You know.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I like to lay down, get my snacks or the
drinks from my seat and all of that.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
So this is that type of movie, I think. So yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
So I have some themes I want to talk about
on here.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
First of all, just give a brief description so people
know I'm not ruining anything what you me and Tuscany
is about all.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Right, I'll go so it is. It's about a young
lady who lives in New York. Okay, she's in an
interesting time in her life, and by interesting, I mean
that she's a hot ass mass and I'm.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Not gonna lie to you.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
This girl's going through some thanks, making some bad decisions,
you know, playing relatable, and she meets an incredible guy
at the bar. Hot guy at the bar finds out
that he's from Tuscany, where she always wanted to go,
and he has a villa that's sitting empty.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
And she has.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
This crazy idea although she has nothing but a passport
and no money.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Nothing she had fis she had five hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Like I said, she got nothing. What are you doing
five hundred dollars in the country you never been before? Anyway,
she flies across the world and she ends up meeting
this crazy Italian family and having to go with this
lie that she is the fiance of the son who
is estranged, and ends up meeting a very handsome winemaker
played by reggae Jean Page who lives there and he's
(01:57):
the adopted brother Slash cousin of the family and it
all goes crazy from there.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
She got to keep this lie up. The family is crazy.
You know.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Michael Reggae's character is hot and fine and making wine
and you know high Jinxon suit.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Yeah, there's a scene where he gets wet from the
water takes it.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
You know.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
That.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
I know you can check and see if I rewinded it.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
But I do want to say that don't try this
at home, because when you watch this, you're gonna be
so tempted to be like Ef I'm leaving tonight and
go this too.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
But I don't know if it's going to work out.
How it worked out for Anna.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
Yeah, I love how impulsive she is. She is very
I mean, she is a lot, she has a lot
going on, but she fakes it till she makes it
and she gets through and I love that about her.
I was really excited to play this character because she's
real and it's kind of the first grown up character
that I've been able to play, which was also exciting.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
So yeah, it's a little romance in there.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I want to ask you, what is the most spontaneous
thing you've ever done in real life?
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Ooh, the most spontaneous thing I've ever done. Well, I'm
a I love traveling for real. So it was just
my birthday and I went to Costa Rica, so in
the middle of a press tour.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
By the way, we still.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Let me tell you, my girl went and was back
on time, had made a birthday weekend and was right
back ready to go.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
I know you were nervous because of the flight issues
we've been having, Like, I know, she need to make
it here, and you've been killing.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
It with the outfits.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
I just want to say that because I've been seeing
like your press man. I saw this red dress you
had on that was phenomenal your outfit today, so I
just gotta I just got to give your props on
on the gear that you've been wearing. What about you,
what's the most spontaneous thing you've ever done?
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Yo?
Speaker 3 (03:48):
I went to Jamaica one time with uh, this girl
that I was dating and didn't have a valid passport
and had to sneak This is before the digital era,
boys and girls, Halle, you wouldn't know nothing about this.
But got to the airport realized my passport had expired.
The think about passport is that they last for ten years.
That's the good thing and you forget. The bad thing
(04:08):
is that they last for ten damns. I forgot my
passport was expired and I had to figure out a
way to get because I had just met this girl
right the first trip. Well I don't mean like that,
but I mean like, this is our first trip together.
Hold on, godnute, I'll make it sounds and off. Hold on,
wait a minute. I was dating her, but it was
(04:29):
our first international trip, so you know, you're trying to
impress people, right, I can't, and I'm the dude that
showed up with the expired passport. So it was at
Atlanta Airport, where you know, I got some connects. I
know some people, so I was able to sneak through
TSA on what they call uncompany minor pass like I
was picking up a child. So I got past their
the true story, got to the gate right, waited until
like everybody was born, and went up. You know how
(04:51):
it's always that one mad woman that's working the counter.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
I ain't gonna say the airline because you know I
need my months. Whatever.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
It was that mad flight person and she was like,
everybody had your passwords, I'll have your your tickets ready
to go, have your boarding past.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
I had nothing.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
So I went up to a right when it was
like crazy and everybody's trying to get her on, and
I said, oh my gosh, I think I dropped my
board past. She said, oh my gosh, me got to
pinch you another. Give me your passport. I gave her
that expired passport. She was so mad she just stamped
it right there that I got on the plane and
flew to Jamaica.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
But what about when you had to figure out how
to get because you don't think about that. So now
I'm in Jamaica. I was like, okay.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
First I was saying I was going to an American jail.
Now I realized I just traded that for Jamaican jail.
I'm never coming back.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
That sounds like.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
I got there and I said to the young lady.
When we got in line, there was this one Jamaican dude, right,
a young dude. I said, listen, you gotta do what
you gotta do. And you know what I meant.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
You see my word?
Speaker 3 (05:38):
And she went up there and flirted with this guy
while he was checking both our passports. And I sat
back like I was just a friend or the cousin
or something. You know what I mean, And she was
flirting with them, like you where do I go out
to make up? Who has the best drinks? And he
stepped my entry passport in order to get it to
this is a true story. I got calls Shayla, who
(05:58):
was my assistant. I said, you got got to get
me back in the country. She said, how did you
get into Jamaica. I said, don't worry about It's a
long story. If it doesn't work out, I like this girl,
I'm gonna just stay here and open up a fruit stand.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
And that was Heather Packer, who I then married.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
I was gonna say, I knew this had to be
the wife because he wouldn't have told this story otherwise.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
I was dated.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
That was our first international trip.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Listen, I have a Jamaica story. One time we went
to Jamaica with Terrence, J Boy and Roxy.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
That's all you got to say. This was a bad trip.
I'm gonna tell you that right now.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
And I'm only going to tell this because Terrence has
told this story before we got to Jamaica and Terrece,
I think he had like a little attitude with the
person at the desk when we were trying to get
through and apparently he had ripped out a page of
his passport because he went somewhere he wasn't supposed to,
you know, previously, and they wouldn't let him in and
(06:50):
he had to turn around.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
As with damage it. Yeah, they sent him back on
the plane.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Yeah, he had to turn around and go right back.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
America was ripped.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Yeah, you can't have a yeah, passport can't have a
ripped page, right, Yeah, damn it. We had a good trip.
I'm so sorry you missed that.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
So he went home and just went and yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
It was like, well they were supposed to be hosting
something and you had so no I was just there.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Okay who stepped over to it was Ennis and Roxy. Yeah,
but you know they did their obligation.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
You know, there is something to be learned here, boys
and girls. Okay, Number one, get your passport together. Does
not rip out pages.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Be prepared.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
However, don't be afraid to step outside you comfort zone. Yes,
like Anna did in the movie, because that's what happens, right,
because I am.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Not that bold like the things that Anna was doing.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Man, I need to get on the light tonight because
she was like I'm gonna go tonight, you know, and
so that is something that I do feel like it
would be nice to be able to do.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Like, have you ever gone on a trip even by yourself?
Speaker 5 (07:53):
I have not, meaning that you know what my sister
has and she said it was amazing. Yeah, I want
to do that and like just go on a solo
trip and be like, oh, this is for me. And
you know, you get nervous to like, oh, go to
a dinner place by yourself at the table by your seat.
You're like, oh what if people are looking and like,
oh shit, by yourself, but no, you should have a
conversation start.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Yeah, I've never been on a trip by myself.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Really.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Yeah, I tried to do it one time. I was like,
I'm gonna just go to Miami. I need to like distress.
And then when I said I was going to Miami,
like three of my friends are like, I'm gonna come too, okay,
and then guess what. Didn't have a place to stay
and ended up staying.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
In my room.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
Oh so it was like a slummer party.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
They knew that that I.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Paid for it.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Yeah, Angela's girls knew when they said come on, let's go,
they well they were stay with you.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
You got got now, you know what I liked about
this movie too, You Me and Tuscany is the fact
that this was the type of movie that it didn't
really have nothing to do with race necessarily, right, Like
there was only one little moment where it was even
really brought up. But even the Italian guy from Tuscany
who you met at the bar, yeah, he just was like,
(09:02):
she's beautiful, like you know what I'm saying. And then
even the family wasn't like it wasn't about that. It
was more like anybody could play these roles, because sometimes
people categorize things, you know, like this is a black movie,
this is a you know, there's no black people in
this movie, but it.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Was just like the characters.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Ye if that makes it my perspective having to give
you hers, I think that I try to make movies
that have universal themes, themes that it doesn't matter where
you're from, your background, and this see none of that.
The themes are universal things you can relate to, and
then I like to have them through the characters lens,
through the pov of people we don't normally see in
a setting like that. So I love the idea that
(09:39):
Anna happened to be played by somebody that looks like
Halle Bailey, because that's how my daughters look and they
have never seen themselves on the big screen doing an exotic, aspirational,
romantic comedy. So I love the messaging. But it's not
heavy handed at all because it's universal.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
Absolutely, And I think it was beautiful to see the
blend of both cultures of you know, being a black
woman in America and also Italian, Like that was so
cool and for me personally, I mean I think I
brought a bit of myself to the character Anna, like
she's me. It's mentioned that she's from Atlanta a little
bit and goes to New York with her mommy. And
(10:15):
also the same themes that Italian families and we have,
Like I'm from the South and it's all about food
and family, and when I go to Italy, I'm like,
this is similar, Like we're all sort of the same
when we sit down at the table and we're eating
together and they're adopting you as into their household, Like
it's really cool seeing a husband and wife make you
(10:37):
handmade pasta from scratch. And I was taking cooking classes
as well when I was in Italy. Yeah, and like
learning about the culture. But it was really cool, the
blend of the two.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
And I love that.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
It was cool because we brought our black culture to it.
But also you're learning about Italian culture too when you
watch the film Can Cook and I can't.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Yes, you're from you know, you being famous from young
you might have prepared you know.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
I love cooking.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
What's your dish?
Speaker 5 (11:06):
My dish? I make a really good brown stewed chicken. Okay,
write some peas, yep, and cabbage.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
I think we need to test this out, Yeah somewhat.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Anybody say that Hallie, eat first before you go. I'm
just going tell you that.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Look a little bit. Listen, I'm gonna get better at it,
but I do.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
What's your go to?
Speaker 5 (11:31):
My go to?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
I like to make chicken, chicken Milanese has been my
thing lately, okay, okay, see, yeah, a little Italian because
sounds terrible if I say that, But yes, I'm good
at that too. And I like to also use my
WAP to cook a lot, so I think those that's
(11:54):
like the easiest thing to cook in to make like
a stir fry.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
And how was it filming and Tuscany? Because you guys
really there to be authentic.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
No Ai flew across the world.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
Yeah, it was incredible. I had never been to Tuscany before,
but I had been in other places of Italy like Sardinia, Italy.
I filmed all the Mermaid Birch Beach scenes there, and
Rome and Milan. I had spent some time before, but
Tuscany had never been And it's the countryside with fields
and fields of that just go of of green and
(12:24):
brown and the sunsets look crazy. It looks like a
painting every single day, to be honest, and.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
We really wanted to make sure that we showcased all that.
So like the director kat Korro, she would really take time.
So when you go see the movie, it's like taking
a trip.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
It's beautiful.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
It made me wonder, you feel, that's the point this.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Is like now we're all going to Tuscan there you go.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
That's I do think that location it has been something
throughout that's like part of a's like a character.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Also literally it has to be.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
I think that, like it is the third you know
lead in this movie is reggae, and then it really
is Italy because from the food, the wine, the hillside,
the vineyards, like if you've never been, you will feel
like you are going. And it is one of those
things because I know people that love to travel, and
you know they talk about like food, porn, travel, porn,
it's all of that.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Like, we took time to make sure it was a
true character in this movie.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Listen, I felt like, hmm, it's Tescany a place I
need to go on and head down to. And the
place that you stayed at his villa that you broke
into and squatted in.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
It looks that's also like a real oh that you
can rent.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Oh, absolutely everything in there is real.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
This is I have to say that because you know
these days everybody think everything is ai cgi.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
No, everything you see in this movie absolutely real.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
We went there, you know, took the whole crew and
by the way, the majority of the actual film crew
was Italian.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
That's great.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Yeah, worked with a lot of incredible local people, the actors.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
When you see the movie, there is this really really funny,
incredible Italian family that all comes together and they're all
local Italian actors and comedians that we put in the movie.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
That's dope. Oh yeah, are you tempted to use AI now?
Speaker 2 (14:08):
I mean, you're saying this is not AI, But is
this something that you're like, this could really help me
with all them.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
As long as you use it as a tool.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Right, you know, we have been as an industry using
versions of AI for a while, right, Like you know,
I made a movie called Beast Within Yourself and in
order to do that, I had to scan his entire
body and put it into a computer because there will
fight scenes with a lion, and so the lion was CGI,
and then I had idest's actual frame and form in
(14:38):
the computer, so we manipulate that and it performs the
way that a human would actually move.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
So there are elements of it that you use.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
But when you think about a movie like this and
you want this to be like an aspirational escapist, an escapade,
it's got to be like you can tell you know,
it needs to have that texture, especially on the big screen.
So if it was something you're watching on your phone
or streaming or whatever, it's a little bit different. But
for this we want to to be really rich and
worth it and worth your time to go to theater
and see it.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Now, I want to talk about first impressions too, because
that is a theme in this movie as well. And
when you first meet Michael Reggae Jean Page's character, you
did not have a good first impression of him? No,
but yeah, yeah, so I want to ask, like, have
there in real life? I do think that sometimes we
can be fool by that. People always say, you only
(15:25):
have one chance to make a first impression. So I
want to just talk to you about that. When it
comes to like meeting people, are you the type of
person to give someone like another chance or are you
completely turned off like keep them away?
Speaker 5 (15:37):
Mmm? I'm always second chance girl. Like I always try
to give people the opportunity to redeem themselves in my eyes,
if the first impression was not that great. But hey, Anna,
I don't know. I didn't think that she would be
into second chances, but for this movie she did. And
(15:57):
with Reggae's character, I mean, I mean, look at him.
How Yeah, you know it was kind of hard for her.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
It'll be different everywhere.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
But I also love I love that arc that they
had because you know, you can feel the chemistry, the
passion like building up, especially when it starts off kind
of you know, passionate and angry with somebody.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
First that's passion.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
Yeah, And so I love seeing that in the movie.
How they get to know each other?
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Did you guys know each other already?
Speaker 5 (16:23):
No. I knew of him and I was a fan
of him, but I never met him until the met. Actually,
we went to the Met gala like a month before
we went out to Italy to start filming, and we've
seen each other there and that was like the ultimate
icebreaker because we're there watching Stevie Wonder and Usher and yeah,
I was like, Oh, he's a cool guy. And then
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we were in Italy and doing it together.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Yeah, listen, Bridgeton, I remember when he was on the
first First of all, the first he's into Bridgeton was
always my favorite. Oh so I'm always like excited to
see him. And I know you've worked with him previously.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Yeah, this is our second time work together.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
His first American role was actually he played a character
called Chicken George in the remake of Roots. So I
did a Roots remake. We got nominated for Emmy, very
proud of it. But he came in and you know,
it was a young British actor. That was ten plus
years ago and we had not worked together since then.
So we talked about this movie and you know what
it could be and he was game, he was up
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for it, and I knew once I had it, Like literally,
there were our first choices. For sure, it was always Hallie,
and then once we had Halle, then it was like,
we need a great guy.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
We need the right guy.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
And I called him, reached out to him and we
sat down and talked about it. And as a producer filmmaker,
you really are hoping that you get the right mix
because the movie like this, you know, it relies on
chemistry and chemistry I'm telling y'all is amazing when you
go and see the movie, like, you get it, you.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Get the why I felt it.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Yeah, I was like, okay, and I've seen you guys
on your press run together too, and it feels like
you're having a good time.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
Yeah, I'm having so much fun. This whole thing has
been just great. I was telling Will, like, yeah, how
was it?
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Because he said you were the first choice. So did
you have to be convinced? What did you think when
you read this script? How did you sign on?
Speaker 5 (18:03):
I was immediately pulled in by the script. I mean
he took me to breakfast and we sat down. He
was like, I want you to read this, and he's
very good with these words you could already see yeah. No.
And I went home and I read it and I
was like, I love this and I love this girl
and I want a root for her. Like as I'm
reading it, I'm like, I just I want her to win.
(18:25):
I got invested reading it, and I was like, this
is somebody I definitely want to play. Yeah, And each
each role that I try to choose now because I'm
venturing into this movie world, I'm like, this is cool,
I'm excited about it. But each role that I choose,
I feel like I want to learn something from that character.
I want to adopt certain qualities about them from them
(18:46):
and give them to myself. Like for with Anna, I
think I would take away some of her bravery, her courage,
and her just not giving a FS. You know. I
love that about her and I want some of that
to stick with Hallie.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
That's good.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Take away something from every character. Yeah that, And I
told you that's what I got because I would not
be as bold as the character was. Now I was
talking about first impressions. Well, I'm sure people come up
to you all the time, like asking for things, and.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
I never met anybody didn't have a movie idea or
an amazing kid. I've got to meet my kid. They
should be a movie. What do you say to somebody?
Then they bring the kid out and they got to
perform right then, and I got I gotta flight to
catch What are we doing?
Speaker 2 (19:32):
That's such awkward things that must happen all the time.
So how do people recover from a bad first impression?
Has that happened? You know?
Speaker 4 (19:40):
What's interesting?
Speaker 3 (19:40):
As I was listening Hollie talk, So personally, it's different
for business. For me, personally, I am somebody that, like
you know, I realized you could have a bad moment.
You could meet somebody in a you know, a situation
that maybe is not a true indicator who they are.
But in business, honestly, I tell people all the time,
be very very careful before you send in that business proposal,
(20:01):
sending that headshot if you're an actor, or that script
if you're a writer, because the truth is, we do
judge you by that first product. And so if you
send me, let's just say, a script. You're a writer,
you send me a script and the script's not good,
I'm from that point or forward. You're the writer with
the not good script, right, So I'm not taking time
to read like that fourth script, that's amazing, you know
what I mean, because I read the first one.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
So I'm like, Okay, I know your skill set. You're
not somebody I'm trying to work with.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
So in business, be very very careful because that first impression.
Most people in business do not have time to give
you second chances. They absolutely paint you with a brush
and put you in a particular box based on that
first impression.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
You know, one thing I also realized about you, me
and Tuscany is that the acting was really phenomenal. There's
so many people doing movies and it's not shade to that,
but sometimes the acting isn't like but it's not actors
absolutely who are not like trained in that way that
are doing movies and you have to like kind of
(20:57):
forgive the acting to a certain degree, you know what
I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
We had a world of.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Content creators and everybody with a phone is a content
creator and I don't mind that at all, and some
people are super talented in that space.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
But as a producer, I will tell you some people
need to stay in that space.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Like that's where audiences want to see and receive everybody
that's like making you laugh on your Instagram feed does
not need to be on a big screen.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
That's just the truth. And so, as you know, filmmakers,
we have to really be kind of discerning about that.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Now, Halle Music, Yes, what's going on because I know
you're you're super busy.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
You know what I'm saying, You're acting, you're a mom.
What's going on with some new.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
Music music I'm so excited about. I released a solo
album in October last year called Love or something like It,
and I'm working on the deluxe version, yes, and a
couple of months, I'll be putting out a few more
songs for that, also playing some shows in LA and
also working with my sister.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Listen, we love that y'all both have been killing it individually.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
I remember when you guys like said rated and got
your own Instagram pages, and it was like, oh my gosh.
You know, but it's nice that you guys have really
forged like your own identities, and that's basically I know.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Sometimes that's hard when people group you together.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
You know, it was it was a separation for all
of us to see that happen, But it really has,
I think worked out to see both of you successfully.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Doing your own thing.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
Thank you so much. That really means a lot.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Yeah, no, honestly, it has been. Now barrel racing. I've
never seen such a thing before.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
It's a real thing.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
So in the movie You, Me and Tuscany, there is
a scene where we have scantily clad guys pushing barrels
through the streets of Italy. I did not notice was
the thing until I got to Italy.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
I've never heard.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
Yeah, they do cheese rolling, which where you literally are
like pushing little like, you know, balls of cheese balls.
I'm saying it wrong, but you pushed cheese through the streets.
Whe That was not good cheese wheels. That wasn't gonna
be a cinematic.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Right, we needed this to really cheese wheel you'll never
see in a movie. What matters is that you see
barrel racing in this movie, which is a real thing.
And they race with these huge wine barrels. These things
are heavy and you have to push them. You gotta
do it a partner. You can't even do it as
a single person. So guys go and they race for
(23:17):
like the honor of your family's name, through the Italian
country side.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
It's a really fun scene. In the movie.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
I know, listen, y'all have got to see you, Me
and Tuscany. And I remember you telling me something will
years ago when you were saying that we have to
be really intentional about how we talk about, you know,
just our space, like and it's been a conversation about
you know, movies and our value and people not understanding
the value that we bring in always having to prove yourself,
(23:42):
you know, and if this person, and we've seen you
comment on that, if this person doesn't succeed, then they're
not going to give us another chance. And I remember
you saying we cannot dog each other publicly. You can
privately say look that wasn't you know, the best, but
publicly we got to have each other's back.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, one hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
I mean as industry, I think you and I are
having an industry conversation, and I just think that, you know,
there's so few of us and folks that look like
us that are trying to get ahead, and we're so
much stronger together as a community. So even if there
is somebody who's project may not be for me, I
still want them to succeed because we are literally ships
(24:19):
on the same Tide, and so there are a lot
of people watching to see what you me and Tuscany does.
They're watching to see does rom comms do they make sense?
Do audiences want to see rom coms of any like
anybody starring a rom com on the big screen?
Speaker 4 (24:32):
They're specifically looking to see.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Do they want to see actors that look like Halle
Bailey and reggae John Page in a rom com on
the big screen? And that is Hollywood is reactive. Hollywood
is a business. As soon as something works, they want
to do it again. And remember like the golden age
of like black rom coms, remember you know Best Man
and Love Jones and Brown Sugar and think like a
(24:54):
Man in the Wood and two can play that game
like excuse me, there was a run of romantic comedies
because audience this is we're coming out and seeing them.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
All those were in the theaters and so I think
that audiences will enjoy this.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
I hope that they will, and this will absolutely tell
Hollywood that this is what people want to see.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
It's interesting because it's like, how do we measure things now?
Because everything is on streaming services so fast too. It's
kind of like it's in the theater, then it hits
the streaming service, and I'm not I mean, I don't
know how we gauge or if it's public information, how
well things do well box office is probable, but i
mean streaming, yeah, not as much.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
You know, you can get information if you're really looking
for it. But one of the reasons I like to
make movies for the big screen is that it has
a different impact on the culture than movies that are
done on streaming, which.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
I have done both and you will continue to do both.
So it's no shade to that.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
It's just that there are movies that drop on streaming
every day that you never know about, never hear about,
never have any impact. One of the things I'm very
proud of about my career as a filmmaker is that,
like love them or hate them, will packer movies you
know about them. You know you know about them, and
you've seen them or heard something about them. They are
talked about in some way.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Multiple number one box office hits, which is not an
easy thing.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
I'm not saying like it doesn't matter the number, Halley,
I'm just I'm just saying it's ten, but whatever. Nobody
asked the number, but the point is, yes, very fortunate.
But you know what that is, that's audiences. That's people saying,
we want to go out and we want to see
girls trip and things like a man and Obsessed and
whatever else.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
And we want to see girls tip too.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
Hello, yes, please you when's it dropping, guys? Because I'm
I'm what's that man? We gotta get the script right.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Absolutely, that sentiment the script.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
Oh okay, well you're talking about Regina.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Regina Hall said it's not where it needs to be.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Yes, listen, I love me from Regina Hall. I hate
she's not gonna be in the sequel, but it's okay.
What we're gonna do is I'm joking, I'm playing. I'm
playing never she's one hundred percent right. That is my
grid dog on all the ladies and so yeah, it's
always about the script, always about getting the script right.
And there there we're working together, okay, So it's not
(26:58):
just you know, any single individual. We're working as a
team to get to get the script right. You gotta
have a script right, right. That's the only reason I
got Halley in this movie.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
Script.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
It was great to sit down with me and I
told her my vision. But then she was like, Okay,
let me see it on the page.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
So that's what we're doing. But we're gonna make it happen.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
What do you think is missing from it?
Speaker 3 (27:14):
From the grocery too, step listen and you're not in
the room, Okay, don't come here, got sit me on
the radio.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
You wanna know what's happening in that two and that three?
Here's what I will tell you.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Two could be the testing it.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
Listen, it could be anywhere. It's just it's got a bang.
It's god, you know what. It's got to make people
feel similarly till they felt with the first one. Yeah,
people felt seen.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
It was fun, it was unapologetic, but it was all
those things super funny, right, and so we're gonna do it.
We're gonna we gotta do it because that's the one thing.
I don't care where I am. If people like know
what I do, they'd be like, oh my gosh, I'm
your movies. And then it switches just like that when
it's grocery.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Yeah. I got to get that as a.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Threat, like why haven't you made it yet? And I'm like, okay, chill, mom,
you know what I'm saying, Like, you.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Know what I want to ask you about Halle what
the for Real movie? Because I know you were in
that and then and they just scrapped it.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
Oh my gosh, I don't know what happened.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
You read about it in the train.
Speaker 5 (28:06):
I just literally and I got I got a call
from Pete. He's like, hey, this is Pete that that
morning at like six a m. And I was like,
I was sleep and I didn't realize it was him,
so I missed the call and I think he was
trying to tell me that the movie's not gonna come out.
But hey, I love the whole experience. It was an
(28:26):
incredible learning experience, an incredible cast. I love the songs.
I hope one day they find a home for that movie.
They figure it out. But it was an incredible experience.
I mean, but the director, Michael Gondry was really cool.
It was just cool just to be there.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
With every I know you were surprised, like this is amazing.
Speaker 5 (28:43):
Yeah, Janelle Money and Kelvin Harrison Junior and Divine and yeah,
I was just happy to be there, to be honest,
I brought my baby.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
It's tough on actors because they have nothing to do
with it.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
I mean, like there's just nothing that you know, Hallie
can do but go in and give her absolute best performance,
and there's so many.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
Things that have to go right. These things are so hard.
I know, y'all see movies. It's like, oh, it's easy.
It's a bunch of movies.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
I'm supposed to literally, yeah, that's how you're supposed to
look to us.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
It's the way the sausage are really made. It's very,
very difficult, and there are a lot of things that
have to line up. And at the end of the day,
you know, we ask the talent to come and give
the absolute best that they have and then they hand
it off to somebody else to answer to a studio
and they have no control.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
So it's just really really hard.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
That's why when we have an opportunity if you like
the imagery and you me and Tuscany, if you want
to see more movies like that, like you know.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
What, you got to show up, that's ring everybody with, Yeah, yeah,
is it better now that you have so many options though,
because you know, we say Hollywood, Hollywood, but now it's
kind of like, you know, we have a lot of
different outlets and it doesn't have to go through Hollywood,
and now people are filming in so many other places.
They're building studios. You know, fifty cent has his and
Street Cutler Louisiana. Obviously Atlanta, we have studios here and
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bigger places coming here to New York.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Is it making it a little bit easier to get
things done?
Speaker 4 (30:02):
It goes up and down.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
I like to say, you know, the industry ebbs and flows,
and it's actually in a little bit of an ebb
right now where they're making less. What's interesting is everything
that you just said means that there's more options out
there for people, which is good for consumers, but it
doesn't always mean they're better options.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
And it means that when you have something it's hard
to cut through. You know, it's hard to cut through
the clutter and be noticed for a movie.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
But ultimately, when you look at like the major media
companies that are like putting you know, big budget movies
together and putting them on theaters, they're not making nearly
as many as they once did, especially not for theaters.
So as a filmmaker, it's great to have a lot
of different platforms, but it is a double edged sword
because audiences.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
Are like, I'm confused, when that came out.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
What what is that on?
Speaker 4 (30:47):
Right all the time?
Speaker 5 (30:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Is it on?
Speaker 5 (30:50):
I'm trying to find something.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Yeah, when I'm always like what do I watch next?
Or like, I like this show Your Friends and Neighbors.
I didn't even know there was new season started because
I'm watching this other show over here on HBO Max
and watching this on Netflix.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
I'm like, I'm so you know, and then we have
to get all the streaming services they get us every time.
Speaker 5 (31:08):
I'm like, I have everything.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
What are you watching at home?
Speaker 5 (31:12):
Oh? Well, I'm a very big reality girl. I love
Love is Blind Okay of hell? Yeah, Queen Love is
Blind Love. I just watched the lamar odom.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Oh I heard that was a tear jerker.
Speaker 5 (31:29):
Yeah, you know, I've watched a lot of things.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
Me too on Netflix. It's if you like secession, it
is very much to realize secession. Really. I like a
good doc Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Me too. I like I love a documentary, especially.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
I was just what I watched. Did you watch that
show The Perfect Neighbor? That documentary Wait where the neighbors
shot her? The white lady moved in on the black
and then she shot and killed the black woman through
the door for no reason.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
Yeah, I haven't seen it yet, but I saw it
kind of be in the mood. Yeah, I was just
gonna say that.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
It took me a while.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
Watch.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Yeah, that's a different kind of emotional you know, certain
as a black person like you just you know you
you you lived that, right, So that level of trauma.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
Which is why we made this move here.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Yeah, this is.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
No trauma, like for real, like not even trying to
sell it, just it needed to be another option out
there because there is a lot of stuff that starks
some people into it, but this is definitely not that.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
And then I think also knowing what we go through
in life, like you know, her character, Anna lost her
mom and it kind of made her a nomad in
a way, like just not knowing what she wanted to
do in life and not following her passion because it
reminded her too much of her mom. And that's a
real thing, like that type of pain where you feel
like I can't even do this because it makes me
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think too much about somebody that was so important to.
Speaker 5 (32:52):
Me, especially like grieving a mom, Like, yeah, that was
a big part of Anna's story, and what was hold
her back was her just kind of tucking it away
and not really dealing with it. But I think it
was beautiful that she came back to herself and found
that cooking healed her in a way and she could
envision herself being there with her mom again, which is
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so nice. And I love that that vulnerability about the
movie too.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
And I have one more question about the movie that
might be a tough one. If she would have hooked
up with Matteo.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
That first night and had a one night stand when
they first met, but then went out to Tuscany and said, oh,
I chose the wrong brother.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Is there an opportunity after that to still.
Speaker 5 (33:46):
Be with.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
The right brother?
Speaker 2 (33:49):
You know?
Speaker 4 (33:50):
She believes the second chance.
Speaker 5 (33:53):
I think that's a little too messy. I think that
if something happened between, it would have been like, okay, girl,
you're doing too much snuffy. Yeah, but she would have
had to like own up to everybody earlier than she did,
had to whoa.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Yeah, No, I was gonna say, I don't care if
it was rial.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Hello, but anyway, make sure you go see you Me
and Tuscany in theaters tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
It is such a good time. Bring your girls, bring
your men, man. Yeah, I promise you.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
Fellas.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
Come on, I'm telling you right now, fella, take your
lady out. Okay, get your lady out of the house.
You will thank me for it. I'm telling your take
on a good day or the sister you've been looking at,
you thinking about, you know, trying to maybe holler that
that's a mature way to do it. None, be just
sitting in the text and talking about Netflix and Ramen
at your house.
Speaker 4 (34:44):
No, go ahead, put on some shoes, brother, get a watch,
go to a house, pick her up, take her to
the theater.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Yes, well, you know, one step at a time. Okay,
We're not just not just flying people out Angelie. Okay,
hold on, take her to AMC first. All right, let's
start with Regal and then we can look at overseas.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Yeah. But in addition to that, you know she's gonna
love you because you're gonna say, look, we got to
support you know, we need more movies like this. We
got to show people that's going to do well. We
got to make sure we go see Halle because you
know she's killing it in this role. You got to
support our guy Will Packer and make sure that he
has a number one movie in the theaters, you know,
because this is a whole domino effect chain reaction.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
So so thank you so much for coming through. I
always appreciate it and we love you.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
Thank you for using your platform for this for good,
for helping us to get the word out.
Speaker 4 (35:30):
It means everything.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
We really appreciate you, Lady oh No, absolutely, and Halle,
I'm so good.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
I don't really get to see you that often, but
it's always exciting to see you and Chloe like love you, ladies.
I love to see how you've grown into the space
that you're in. You are superstars already, but it's just
next level.
Speaker 5 (35:46):
So thank you so much.
What's up?
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Its way up for Angela Yee and my little baby
Halle Bellies here you grown up now?
Speaker 1 (00:09):
But grown up hi?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
And Bill Packer is here and what's happening? Oh man,
I'm so excited for this new movie. I love a
rom com. You Me and Tuscany is out tomorrow, so
congratulations and theaters.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Yes, And you have to say that you got to
be very very clear, because I've had people come up
to me, Oh my gosh, that looks amazing. Whit Netflix?
My god, this is not we got to break that
that have it?
Speaker 4 (00:32):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
This is about putting that phone down and going to
the big screen having an experience.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Isn't it a crazy time when people are so used
to streaming that if it's in the theaters, it's like wait,
hold on, in theaters it feels weird. Yeah, But going
to the theater is different now.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
You know.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I like to lay down, get my snacks or the
drinks from my seat and all of that.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
So this is that type of movie, I think. So yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
So I have some themes I want to talk about
on here.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
First of all, just give a brief description so people
know I'm not ruining anything what you me and Tuscany
is about all.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Right, I'll go so it is. It's about a young
lady who lives in New York. Okay, she's in an
interesting time in her life, and by interesting, I mean
that she's a hot ass mass and I'm.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Not gonna lie to you.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
This girl's going through some thanks, making some bad decisions,
you know, playing relatable, and she meets an incredible guy
at the bar. Hot guy at the bar finds out
that he's from Tuscany, where she always wanted to go,
and he has a villa that's sitting empty.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
And she has.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
This crazy idea although she has nothing but a passport
and no money.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Nothing she had fis she had five hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Like I said, she got nothing. What are you doing
five hundred dollars in the country you never been before? Anyway,
she flies across the world and she ends up meeting
this crazy Italian family and having to go with this
lie that she is the fiance of the son who
is estranged, and ends up meeting a very handsome winemaker
played by reggae Jean Page who lives there and he's
(01:57):
the adopted brother Slash cousin of the family and it
all goes crazy from there.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
She got to keep this lie up. The family is crazy.
You know.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Michael Reggae's character is hot and fine and making wine
and you know high Jinxon suit.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Yeah, there's a scene where he gets wet from the
water takes it.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
You know.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
That.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
I know you can check and see if I rewinded it.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
But I do want to say that don't try this
at home, because when you watch this, you're gonna be
so tempted to be like Ef I'm leaving tonight and
go this too.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
But I don't know if it's going to work out.
How it worked out for Anna.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
Yeah, I love how impulsive she is. She is very
I mean, she is a lot, she has a lot
going on, but she fakes it till she makes it
and she gets through and I love that about her.
I was really excited to play this character because she's
real and it's kind of the first grown up character
that I've been able to play, which was also exciting.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
So yeah, it's a little romance in there.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I want to ask you, what is the most spontaneous
thing you've ever done in real life?
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Ooh, the most spontaneous thing I've ever done. Well, I'm
a I love traveling for real. So it was just
my birthday and I went to Costa Rica, so in
the middle of a press tour.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
By the way, we still.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Let me tell you, my girl went and was back
on time, had made a birthday weekend and was right
back ready to go.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
I know you were nervous because of the flight issues
we've been having, Like, I know, she need to make
it here, and you've been killing.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
It with the outfits.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
I just want to say that because I've been seeing
like your press man. I saw this red dress you
had on that was phenomenal your outfit today, so I
just gotta I just got to give your props on
on the gear that you've been wearing. What about you,
what's the most spontaneous thing you've ever done?
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Yo?
Speaker 3 (03:48):
I went to Jamaica one time with uh, this girl
that I was dating and didn't have a valid passport
and had to sneak This is before the digital era,
boys and girls, Halle, you wouldn't know nothing about this.
But got to the airport realized my passport had expired.
The think about passport is that they last for ten years.
That's the good thing and you forget. The bad thing
(04:08):
is that they last for ten damns. I forgot my
passport was expired and I had to figure out a
way to get because I had just met this girl
right the first trip. Well I don't mean like that,
but I mean like, this is our first trip together.
Hold on, godnute, I'll make it sounds and off. Hold on,
wait a minute. I was dating her, but it was
(04:29):
our first international trip, so you know, you're trying to
impress people, right, I can't, and I'm the dude that
showed up with the expired passport. So it was at
Atlanta Airport, where you know, I got some connects. I
know some people, so I was able to sneak through
TSA on what they call uncompany minor pass like I
was picking up a child. So I got past their
the true story, got to the gate right, waited until
like everybody was born, and went up. You know how
(04:51):
it's always that one mad woman that's working the counter.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
I ain't gonna say the airline because you know I
need my months. Whatever.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
It was that mad flight person and she was like,
everybody had your passwords, I'll have your your tickets ready
to go, have your boarding past.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
I had nothing.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
So I went up to a right when it was
like crazy and everybody's trying to get her on, and
I said, oh my gosh, I think I dropped my
board past. She said, oh my gosh, me got to
pinch you another. Give me your passport. I gave her
that expired passport. She was so mad she just stamped
it right there that I got on the plane and
flew to Jamaica.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
But what about when you had to figure out how
to get because you don't think about that. So now
I'm in Jamaica. I was like, okay.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
First I was saying I was going to an American jail.
Now I realized I just traded that for Jamaican jail.
I'm never coming back.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
That sounds like.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
I got there and I said to the young lady.
When we got in line, there was this one Jamaican dude, right,
a young dude. I said, listen, you gotta do what
you gotta do. And you know what I meant.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
You see my word?
Speaker 3 (05:38):
And she went up there and flirted with this guy
while he was checking both our passports. And I sat
back like I was just a friend or the cousin
or something. You know what I mean, And she was
flirting with them, like you where do I go out
to make up? Who has the best drinks? And he
stepped my entry passport in order to get it to
this is a true story. I got calls Shayla, who
(05:58):
was my assistant. I said, you got got to get
me back in the country. She said, how did you
get into Jamaica. I said, don't worry about It's a
long story. If it doesn't work out, I like this girl,
I'm gonna just stay here and open up a fruit stand.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
And that was Heather Packer, who I then married.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
I was gonna say, I knew this had to be
the wife because he wouldn't have told this story otherwise.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
I was dated.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
That was our first international trip.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Listen, I have a Jamaica story. One time we went
to Jamaica with Terrence, J Boy and Roxy.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
That's all you got to say. This was a bad trip.
I'm gonna tell you that right now.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
And I'm only going to tell this because Terrence has
told this story before we got to Jamaica and Terrece,
I think he had like a little attitude with the
person at the desk when we were trying to get
through and apparently he had ripped out a page of
his passport because he went somewhere he wasn't supposed to,
you know, previously, and they wouldn't let him in and
(06:50):
he had to turn around.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
As with damage it. Yeah, they sent him back on
the plane.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Yeah, he had to turn around and go right back.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
America was ripped.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Yeah, you can't have a yeah, passport can't have a
ripped page, right, Yeah, damn it. We had a good trip.
I'm so sorry you missed that.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
So he went home and just went and yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
It was like, well they were supposed to be hosting
something and you had so no I was just there.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Okay who stepped over to it was Ennis and Roxy. Yeah,
but you know they did their obligation.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
You know, there is something to be learned here, boys
and girls. Okay, Number one, get your passport together. Does
not rip out pages.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Be prepared.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
However, don't be afraid to step outside you comfort zone. Yes,
like Anna did in the movie, because that's what happens, right,
because I am.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Not that bold like the things that Anna was doing.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Man, I need to get on the light tonight because
she was like I'm gonna go tonight, you know, and
so that is something that I do feel like it
would be nice to be able to do.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Like, have you ever gone on a trip even by yourself?
Speaker 5 (07:53):
I have not, meaning that you know what my sister
has and she said it was amazing. Yeah, I want
to do that and like just go on a solo
trip and be like, oh, this is for me. And
you know, you get nervous to like, oh, go to
a dinner place by yourself at the table by your seat.
You're like, oh what if people are looking and like,
oh shit, by yourself, but no, you should have a
conversation start.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Yeah, I've never been on a trip by myself.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Really.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Yeah, I tried to do it one time. I was like,
I'm gonna just go to Miami. I need to like distress.
And then when I said I was going to Miami,
like three of my friends are like, I'm gonna come too, okay,
and then guess what. Didn't have a place to stay
and ended up staying.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
In my room.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
Oh so it was like a slummer party.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
They knew that that I.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Paid for it.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Yeah, Angela's girls knew when they said come on, let's go,
they well they were stay with you.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
You got got now, you know what I liked about
this movie too, You Me and Tuscany is the fact
that this was the type of movie that it didn't
really have nothing to do with race necessarily, right, Like
there was only one little moment where it was even
really brought up. But even the Italian guy from Tuscany
who you met at the bar, yeah, he just was like,
(09:02):
she's beautiful, like you know what I'm saying. And then
even the family wasn't like it wasn't about that. It
was more like anybody could play these roles, because sometimes
people categorize things, you know, like this is a black movie,
this is a you know, there's no black people in
this movie, but it.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Was just like the characters.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Ye if that makes it my perspective having to give
you hers, I think that I try to make movies
that have universal themes, themes that it doesn't matter where
you're from, your background, and this see none of that.
The themes are universal things you can relate to, and
then I like to have them through the characters lens,
through the pov of people we don't normally see in
a setting like that. So I love the idea that
(09:39):
Anna happened to be played by somebody that looks like
Halle Bailey, because that's how my daughters look and they
have never seen themselves on the big screen doing an exotic, aspirational,
romantic comedy. So I love the messaging. But it's not
heavy handed at all because it's universal.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
Absolutely, And I think it was beautiful to see the
blend of both cultures of you know, being a black
woman in America and also Italian, Like that was so
cool and for me personally, I mean I think I
brought a bit of myself to the character Anna, like
she's me. It's mentioned that she's from Atlanta a little
bit and goes to New York with her mommy. And
(10:15):
also the same themes that Italian families and we have,
Like I'm from the South and it's all about food
and family, and when I go to Italy, I'm like,
this is similar, Like we're all sort of the same
when we sit down at the table and we're eating
together and they're adopting you as into their household, Like
it's really cool seeing a husband and wife make you
(10:37):
handmade pasta from scratch. And I was taking cooking classes
as well when I was in Italy. Yeah, and like
learning about the culture. But it was really cool, the
blend of the two.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
And I love that.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
It was cool because we brought our black culture to it.
But also you're learning about Italian culture too when you
watch the film Can Cook and I can't.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Yes, you're from you know, you being famous from young
you might have prepared you know.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
I love cooking.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
What's your dish?
Speaker 5 (11:06):
My dish? I make a really good brown stewed chicken. Okay,
write some peas, yep, and cabbage.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
I think we need to test this out, Yeah somewhat.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Anybody say that Hallie, eat first before you go. I'm
just going tell you that.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Look a little bit. Listen, I'm gonna get better at it,
but I do.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
What's your go to?
Speaker 5 (11:31):
My go to?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
I like to make chicken, chicken Milanese has been my
thing lately, okay, okay, see, yeah, a little Italian because
sounds terrible if I say that, But yes, I'm good
at that too. And I like to also use my
WAP to cook a lot, so I think those that's
(11:54):
like the easiest thing to cook in to make like
a stir fry.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
And how was it filming and Tuscany? Because you guys
really there to be authentic.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
No Ai flew across the world.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
Yeah, it was incredible. I had never been to Tuscany before,
but I had been in other places of Italy like Sardinia, Italy.
I filmed all the Mermaid Birch Beach scenes there, and
Rome and Milan. I had spent some time before, but
Tuscany had never been And it's the countryside with fields
and fields of that just go of of green and
(12:24):
brown and the sunsets look crazy. It looks like a
painting every single day, to be honest, and.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
We really wanted to make sure that we showcased all that.
So like the director kat Korro, she would really take time.
So when you go see the movie, it's like taking
a trip.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
It's beautiful.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
It made me wonder, you feel, that's the point this.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Is like now we're all going to Tuscan there you go.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
That's I do think that location it has been something
throughout that's like part of a's like a character.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Also literally it has to be.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
I think that, like it is the third you know
lead in this movie is reggae, and then it really
is Italy because from the food, the wine, the hillside,
the vineyards, like if you've never been, you will feel
like you are going. And it is one of those
things because I know people that love to travel, and
you know they talk about like food, porn, travel, porn,
it's all of that.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Like, we took time to make sure it was a
true character in this movie.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Listen, I felt like, hmm, it's Tescany a place I
need to go on and head down to. And the
place that you stayed at his villa that you broke
into and squatted in.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
It looks that's also like a real oh that you
can rent.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Oh, absolutely everything in there is real.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
This is I have to say that because you know
these days everybody think everything is ai cgi.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
No, everything you see in this movie absolutely real.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
We went there, you know, took the whole crew and
by the way, the majority of the actual film crew
was Italian.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
That's great.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Yeah, worked with a lot of incredible local people, the actors.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
When you see the movie, there is this really really funny,
incredible Italian family that all comes together and they're all
local Italian actors and comedians that we put in the movie.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
That's dope. Oh yeah, are you tempted to use AI now?
Speaker 2 (14:08):
I mean, you're saying this is not AI, But is
this something that you're like, this could really help me
with all them.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
As long as you use it as a tool.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Right, you know, we have been as an industry using
versions of AI for a while, right, Like you know,
I made a movie called Beast Within Yourself and in
order to do that, I had to scan his entire
body and put it into a computer because there will
fight scenes with a lion, and so the lion was CGI,
and then I had idest's actual frame and form in
(14:38):
the computer, so we manipulate that and it performs the
way that a human would actually move.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
So there are elements of it that you use.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
But when you think about a movie like this and
you want this to be like an aspirational escapist, an escapade,
it's got to be like you can tell you know,
it needs to have that texture, especially on the big screen.
So if it was something you're watching on your phone
or streaming or whatever, it's a little bit different. But
for this we want to to be really rich and
worth it and worth your time to go to theater
and see it.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Now, I want to talk about first impressions too, because
that is a theme in this movie as well. And
when you first meet Michael Reggae Jean Page's character, you
did not have a good first impression of him? No,
but yeah, yeah, so I want to ask, like, have
there in real life? I do think that sometimes we
can be fool by that. People always say, you only
(15:25):
have one chance to make a first impression. So I
want to just talk to you about that. When it
comes to like meeting people, are you the type of
person to give someone like another chance or are you
completely turned off like keep them away?
Speaker 5 (15:37):
Mmm? I'm always second chance girl. Like I always try
to give people the opportunity to redeem themselves in my eyes,
if the first impression was not that great. But hey, Anna,
I don't know. I didn't think that she would be
into second chances, but for this movie she did. And
(15:57):
with Reggae's character, I mean, I mean, look at him.
How Yeah, you know it was kind of hard for her.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
It'll be different everywhere.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
But I also love I love that arc that they
had because you know, you can feel the chemistry, the
passion like building up, especially when it starts off kind
of you know, passionate and angry with somebody.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
First that's passion.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
Yeah, And so I love seeing that in the movie.
How they get to know each other?
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Did you guys know each other already?
Speaker 5 (16:23):
No. I knew of him and I was a fan
of him, but I never met him until the met. Actually,
we went to the Met gala like a month before
we went out to Italy to start filming, and we've
seen each other there and that was like the ultimate
icebreaker because we're there watching Stevie Wonder and Usher and yeah,
I was like, Oh, he's a cool guy. And then
(16:44):
we were in Italy and doing it together.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Yeah, listen, Bridgeton, I remember when he was on the
first First of all, the first he's into Bridgeton was
always my favorite. Oh so I'm always like excited to
see him. And I know you've worked with him previously.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Yeah, this is our second time work together.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
His first American role was actually he played a character
called Chicken George in the remake of Roots. So I
did a Roots remake. We got nominated for Emmy, very
proud of it. But he came in and you know,
it was a young British actor. That was ten plus
years ago and we had not worked together since then.
So we talked about this movie and you know what
it could be and he was game, he was up
(17:20):
for it, and I knew once I had it, Like literally,
there were our first choices. For sure, it was always Hallie,
and then once we had Halle, then it was like,
we need a great guy.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
We need the right guy.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
And I called him, reached out to him and we
sat down and talked about it. And as a producer filmmaker,
you really are hoping that you get the right mix
because the movie like this, you know, it relies on
chemistry and chemistry I'm telling y'all is amazing when you
go and see the movie, like, you get it, you.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Get the why I felt it.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Yeah, I was like, okay, and I've seen you guys
on your press run together too, and it feels like
you're having a good time.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
Yeah, I'm having so much fun. This whole thing has
been just great. I was telling Will, like, yeah, how
was it?
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Because he said you were the first choice. So did
you have to be convinced? What did you think when
you read this script? How did you sign on?
Speaker 5 (18:03):
I was immediately pulled in by the script. I mean
he took me to breakfast and we sat down. He
was like, I want you to read this, and he's
very good with these words you could already see yeah. No.
And I went home and I read it and I
was like, I love this and I love this girl
and I want a root for her. Like as I'm
reading it, I'm like, I just I want her to win.
(18:25):
I got invested reading it, and I was like, this
is somebody I definitely want to play. Yeah, And each
each role that I try to choose now because I'm
venturing into this movie world, I'm like, this is cool,
I'm excited about it. But each role that I choose,
I feel like I want to learn something from that character.
I want to adopt certain qualities about them from them
(18:46):
and give them to myself. Like for with Anna, I
think I would take away some of her bravery, her courage,
and her just not giving a FS. You know. I
love that about her and I want some of that
to stick with Hallie.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
That's good.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Take away something from every character. Yeah that, And I
told you that's what I got because I would not
be as bold as the character was. Now I was
talking about first impressions. Well, I'm sure people come up
to you all the time, like asking for things, and.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
I never met anybody didn't have a movie idea or
an amazing kid. I've got to meet my kid. They
should be a movie. What do you say to somebody?
Then they bring the kid out and they got to
perform right then, and I got I gotta flight to
catch What are we doing?
Speaker 2 (19:32):
That's such awkward things that must happen all the time.
So how do people recover from a bad first impression?
Has that happened? You know?
Speaker 4 (19:40):
What's interesting?
Speaker 3 (19:40):
As I was listening Hollie talk, So personally, it's different
for business. For me, personally, I am somebody that, like
you know, I realized you could have a bad moment.
You could meet somebody in a you know, a situation
that maybe is not a true indicator who they are.
But in business, honestly, I tell people all the time,
be very very careful before you send in that business proposal,
(20:01):
sending that headshot if you're an actor, or that script
if you're a writer, because the truth is, we do
judge you by that first product. And so if you
send me, let's just say, a script. You're a writer,
you send me a script and the script's not good,
I'm from that point or forward. You're the writer with
the not good script, right, So I'm not taking time
to read like that fourth script, that's amazing, you know
what I mean, because I read the first one.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
So I'm like, Okay, I know your skill set. You're
not somebody I'm trying to work with.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
So in business, be very very careful because that first impression.
Most people in business do not have time to give
you second chances. They absolutely paint you with a brush
and put you in a particular box based on that
first impression.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
You know, one thing I also realized about you, me
and Tuscany is that the acting was really phenomenal. There's
so many people doing movies and it's not shade to that,
but sometimes the acting isn't like but it's not actors
absolutely who are not like trained in that way that
are doing movies and you have to like kind of
(20:57):
forgive the acting to a certain degree, you know what
I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
We had a world of.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Content creators and everybody with a phone is a content
creator and I don't mind that at all, and some
people are super talented in that space.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
But as a producer, I will tell you some people
need to stay in that space.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Like that's where audiences want to see and receive everybody
that's like making you laugh on your Instagram feed does
not need to be on a big screen.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
That's just the truth. And so, as you know, filmmakers,
we have to really be kind of discerning about that.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Now, Halle Music, Yes, what's going on because I know
you're you're super busy.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
You know what I'm saying, You're acting, you're a mom.
What's going on with some new.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
Music music I'm so excited about. I released a solo
album in October last year called Love or something like It,
and I'm working on the deluxe version, yes, and a
couple of months, I'll be putting out a few more
songs for that, also playing some shows in LA and
also working with my sister.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Listen, we love that y'all both have been killing it individually.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
I remember when you guys like said rated and got
your own Instagram pages, and it was like, oh my gosh.
You know, but it's nice that you guys have really
forged like your own identities, and that's basically I know.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Sometimes that's hard when people group you together.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
You know, it was it was a separation for all
of us to see that happen, But it really has,
I think worked out to see both of you successfully.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Doing your own thing.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
Thank you so much. That really means a lot.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Yeah, no, honestly, it has been. Now barrel racing. I've
never seen such a thing before.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
It's a real thing.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
So in the movie You, Me and Tuscany, there is
a scene where we have scantily clad guys pushing barrels
through the streets of Italy. I did not notice was
the thing until I got to Italy.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
I've never heard.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
Yeah, they do cheese rolling, which where you literally are
like pushing little like, you know, balls of cheese balls.
I'm saying it wrong, but you pushed cheese through the streets.
Whe That was not good cheese wheels. That wasn't gonna
be a cinematic.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Right, we needed this to really cheese wheel you'll never
see in a movie. What matters is that you see
barrel racing in this movie, which is a real thing.
And they race with these huge wine barrels. These things
are heavy and you have to push them. You gotta
do it a partner. You can't even do it as
a single person. So guys go and they race for
(23:17):
like the honor of your family's name, through the Italian
country side.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
It's a really fun scene. In the movie.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
I know, listen, y'all have got to see you, Me
and Tuscany. And I remember you telling me something will
years ago when you were saying that we have to
be really intentional about how we talk about, you know,
just our space, like and it's been a conversation about
you know, movies and our value and people not understanding
the value that we bring in always having to prove yourself,
(23:42):
you know, and if this person, and we've seen you
comment on that, if this person doesn't succeed, then they're
not going to give us another chance. And I remember
you saying we cannot dog each other publicly. You can
privately say look that wasn't you know, the best, but
publicly we got to have each other's back.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, one hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
I mean as industry, I think you and I are
having an industry conversation, and I just think that, you know,
there's so few of us and folks that look like
us that are trying to get ahead, and we're so
much stronger together as a community. So even if there
is somebody who's project may not be for me, I
still want them to succeed because we are literally ships
(24:19):
on the same Tide, and so there are a lot
of people watching to see what you me and Tuscany does.
They're watching to see does rom comms do they make sense?
Do audiences want to see rom coms of any like
anybody starring a rom com on the big screen?
Speaker 4 (24:32):
They're specifically looking to see.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Do they want to see actors that look like Halle
Bailey and reggae John Page in a rom com on
the big screen? And that is Hollywood is reactive. Hollywood
is a business. As soon as something works, they want
to do it again. And remember like the golden age
of like black rom coms, remember you know Best Man
and Love Jones and Brown Sugar and think like a
(24:54):
Man in the Wood and two can play that game
like excuse me, there was a run of romantic comedies
because audience this is we're coming out and seeing them.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
All those were in the theaters and so I think
that audiences will enjoy this.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
I hope that they will, and this will absolutely tell
Hollywood that this is what people want to see.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
It's interesting because it's like, how do we measure things now?
Because everything is on streaming services so fast too. It's
kind of like it's in the theater, then it hits
the streaming service, and I'm not I mean, I don't
know how we gauge or if it's public information, how
well things do well box office is probable, but i
mean streaming, yeah, not as much.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
You know, you can get information if you're really looking
for it. But one of the reasons I like to
make movies for the big screen is that it has
a different impact on the culture than movies that are
done on streaming, which.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
I have done both and you will continue to do both.
So it's no shade to that.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
It's just that there are movies that drop on streaming
every day that you never know about, never hear about,
never have any impact. One of the things I'm very
proud of about my career as a filmmaker is that,
like love them or hate them, will packer movies you
know about them. You know you know about them, and
you've seen them or heard something about them. They are
talked about in some way.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Multiple number one box office hits, which is not an
easy thing.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
I'm not saying like it doesn't matter the number, Halley,
I'm just I'm just saying it's ten, but whatever. Nobody
asked the number, but the point is, yes, very fortunate.
But you know what that is, that's audiences. That's people saying,
we want to go out and we want to see
girls trip and things like a man and Obsessed and
whatever else.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
And we want to see girls tip too.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
Hello, yes, please you when's it dropping, guys? Because I'm
I'm what's that man? We gotta get the script right.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Absolutely, that sentiment the script.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
Oh okay, well you're talking about Regina.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Regina Hall said it's not where it needs to be.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Yes, listen, I love me from Regina Hall. I hate
she's not gonna be in the sequel, but it's okay.
What we're gonna do is I'm joking, I'm playing. I'm
playing never she's one hundred percent right. That is my
grid dog on all the ladies and so yeah, it's
always about the script, always about getting the script right.
And there there we're working together, okay, So it's not
(26:58):
just you know, any single individual. We're working as a
team to get to get the script right. You gotta
have a script right, right. That's the only reason I
got Halley in this movie.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
Script.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
It was great to sit down with me and I
told her my vision. But then she was like, Okay,
let me see it on the page.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
So that's what we're doing. But we're gonna make it happen.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
What do you think is missing from it?
Speaker 3 (27:14):
From the grocery too, step listen and you're not in
the room, Okay, don't come here, got sit me on
the radio.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
You wanna know what's happening in that two and that three?
Here's what I will tell you.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Two could be the testing it.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
Listen, it could be anywhere. It's just it's got a bang.
It's god, you know what. It's got to make people
feel similarly till they felt with the first one. Yeah,
people felt seen.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
It was fun, it was unapologetic, but it was all
those things super funny, right, and so we're gonna do it.
We're gonna we gotta do it because that's the one thing.
I don't care where I am. If people like know
what I do, they'd be like, oh my gosh, I'm
your movies. And then it switches just like that when
it's grocery.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Yeah. I got to get that as a.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Threat, like why haven't you made it yet? And I'm like, okay, chill, mom,
you know what I'm saying, Like, you.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Know what I want to ask you about Halle what
the for Real movie? Because I know you were in
that and then and they just scrapped it.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
Oh my gosh, I don't know what happened.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
You read about it in the train.
Speaker 5 (28:06):
I just literally and I got I got a call
from Pete. He's like, hey, this is Pete that that
morning at like six a m. And I was like,
I was sleep and I didn't realize it was him,
so I missed the call and I think he was
trying to tell me that the movie's not gonna come out.
But hey, I love the whole experience. It was an
(28:26):
incredible learning experience, an incredible cast. I love the songs.
I hope one day they find a home for that movie.
They figure it out. But it was an incredible experience.
I mean, but the director, Michael Gondry was really cool.
It was just cool just to be there.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
With every I know you were surprised, like this is amazing.
Speaker 5 (28:43):
Yeah, Janelle Money and Kelvin Harrison Junior and Divine and yeah,
I was just happy to be there, to be honest,
I brought my baby.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
It's tough on actors because they have nothing to do
with it.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
I mean, like there's just nothing that you know, Hallie
can do but go in and give her absolute best performance,
and there's so many.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
Things that have to go right. These things are so hard.
I know, y'all see movies. It's like, oh, it's easy.
It's a bunch of movies.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
I'm supposed to literally, yeah, that's how you're supposed to
look to us.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
It's the way the sausage are really made. It's very,
very difficult, and there are a lot of things that
have to line up. And at the end of the day,
you know, we ask the talent to come and give
the absolute best that they have and then they hand
it off to somebody else to answer to a studio
and they have no control.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
So it's just really really hard.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
That's why when we have an opportunity if you like
the imagery and you me and Tuscany, if you want
to see more movies like that, like you know.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
What, you got to show up, that's ring everybody with, Yeah, yeah,
is it better now that you have so many options though,
because you know, we say Hollywood, Hollywood, but now it's
kind of like, you know, we have a lot of
different outlets and it doesn't have to go through Hollywood,
and now people are filming in so many other places.
They're building studios. You know, fifty cent has his and
Street Cutler Louisiana. Obviously Atlanta, we have studios here and
(29:57):
bigger places coming here to New York.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Is it making it a little bit easier to get
things done?
Speaker 4 (30:02):
It goes up and down.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
I like to say, you know, the industry ebbs and flows,
and it's actually in a little bit of an ebb
right now where they're making less. What's interesting is everything
that you just said means that there's more options out
there for people, which is good for consumers, but it
doesn't always mean they're better options.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
And it means that when you have something it's hard
to cut through. You know, it's hard to cut through
the clutter and be noticed for a movie.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
But ultimately, when you look at like the major media
companies that are like putting you know, big budget movies
together and putting them on theaters, they're not making nearly
as many as they once did, especially not for theaters.
So as a filmmaker, it's great to have a lot
of different platforms, but it is a double edged sword
because audiences.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
Are like, I'm confused, when that came out.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
What what is that on?
Speaker 4 (30:47):
Right all the time?
Speaker 5 (30:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Is it on?
Speaker 5 (30:50):
I'm trying to find something.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Yeah, when I'm always like what do I watch next?
Or like, I like this show Your Friends and Neighbors.
I didn't even know there was new season started because
I'm watching this other show over here on HBO Max
and watching this on Netflix.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
I'm like, I'm so you know, and then we have
to get all the streaming services they get us every time.
Speaker 5 (31:08):
I'm like, I have everything.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
What are you watching at home?
Speaker 5 (31:12):
Oh? Well, I'm a very big reality girl. I love
Love is Blind Okay of hell? Yeah, Queen Love is
Blind Love. I just watched the lamar odom.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Oh I heard that was a tear jerker.
Speaker 5 (31:29):
Yeah, you know, I've watched a lot of things.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
Me too on Netflix. It's if you like secession, it
is very much to realize secession. Really. I like a
good doc Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Me too. I like I love a documentary, especially.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
I was just what I watched. Did you watch that
show The Perfect Neighbor? That documentary Wait where the neighbors
shot her? The white lady moved in on the black
and then she shot and killed the black woman through
the door for no reason.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
Yeah, I haven't seen it yet, but I saw it
kind of be in the mood. Yeah, I was just
gonna say that.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
It took me a while.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
Watch.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Yeah, that's a different kind of emotional you know, certain
as a black person like you just you know you
you you lived that, right, So that level of trauma.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
Which is why we made this move here.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Yeah, this is.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
No trauma, like for real, like not even trying to
sell it, just it needed to be another option out
there because there is a lot of stuff that starks
some people into it, but this is definitely not that.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
And then I think also knowing what we go through
in life, like you know, her character, Anna lost her
mom and it kind of made her a nomad in
a way, like just not knowing what she wanted to
do in life and not following her passion because it
reminded her too much of her mom. And that's a
real thing, like that type of pain where you feel
like I can't even do this because it makes me
(32:50):
think too much about somebody that was so important to.
Speaker 5 (32:52):
Me, especially like grieving a mom, Like, yeah, that was
a big part of Anna's story, and what was hold
her back was her just kind of tucking it away
and not really dealing with it. But I think it
was beautiful that she came back to herself and found
that cooking healed her in a way and she could
envision herself being there with her mom again, which is
(33:13):
so nice. And I love that that vulnerability about the
movie too.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
And I have one more question about the movie that
might be a tough one. If she would have hooked
up with Matteo.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
That first night and had a one night stand when
they first met, but then went out to Tuscany and said, oh,
I chose the wrong brother.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Is there an opportunity after that to still.
Speaker 5 (33:46):
Be with.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
The right brother?
Speaker 2 (33:49):
You know?
Speaker 4 (33:50):
She believes the second chance.
Speaker 5 (33:53):
I think that's a little too messy. I think that
if something happened between, it would have been like, okay, girl,
you're doing too much snuffy. Yeah, but she would have
had to like own up to everybody earlier than she did,
had to whoa.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Yeah, No, I was gonna say, I don't care if
it was rial.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Hello, but anyway, make sure you go see you Me
and Tuscany in theaters tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
It is such a good time. Bring your girls, bring
your men, man. Yeah, I promise you.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
Fellas.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
Come on, I'm telling you right now, fella, take your
lady out. Okay, get your lady out of the house.
You will thank me for it. I'm telling your take
on a good day or the sister you've been looking at,
you thinking about, you know, trying to maybe holler that
that's a mature way to do it. None, be just
sitting in the text and talking about Netflix and Ramen
at your house.
Speaker 4 (34:44):
No, go ahead, put on some shoes, brother, get a watch,
go to a house, pick her up, take her to
the theater.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Yes, well, you know, one step at a time. Okay,
We're not just not just flying people out Angelie. Okay,
hold on, take her to AMC first. All right, let's
start with Regal and then we can look at overseas.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Yeah. But in addition to that, you know she's gonna
love you because you're gonna say, look, we got to
support you know, we need more movies like this. We
got to show people that's going to do well. We
got to make sure we go see Halle because you
know she's killing it in this role. You got to
support our guy Will Packer and make sure that he
has a number one movie in the theaters, you know,
because this is a whole domino effect chain reaction.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
So so thank you so much for coming through. I
always appreciate it and we love you.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
Thank you for using your platform for this for good,
for helping us to get the word out.
Speaker 4 (35:30):
It means everything.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
We really appreciate you, Lady oh No, absolutely, and Halle,
I'm so good.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
I don't really get to see you that often, but
it's always exciting to see you and Chloe like love you, ladies.
I love to see how you've grown into the space
that you're in. You are superstars already, but it's just
next level.
Speaker 5 (35:46):
So thank you so much.
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