November 7, 2025 • 34 mins
Unexpected Christmas Cast Get Real: Love, Secrets, Marriage Dreams & “Training” Your Partner + More
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Oh, this is exciting. It's way up with Angela Yee
and I got a cast if I feel like friends
up here and we're talking about unexpected Christmas heavy on
the X. All right, Dominie Perry is here, Hello, Hello
Reggae and Gomez is here, Hey girl, Hello, Ra Howry
is here, and miss Anna Maria Horsford is here.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Hello.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Listen. First of all, how much fun are you guys
having just traveling together, because before we turn these mics on,
it feels like family having alas. Yeah, this is nice.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
I haven't done a junket like this and years.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Really you haven't. What you think that? Well, I guess
after the pandemic everybody was doing like zoom stuff. But
it is rare that we see people going out like
this and doing interviews and you have outside.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
And promoting a movie that's in theater.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Yeah, I know, right, it's usually yeah TV shows that
they do, but it's it's different.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
This is good. This feels like it was like so
we had a good time shooting too.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
You know, I love good holiday movies and this one, boy,
I didn't know where it was going when it first started.
But family can be dramatic and it can be like hard,
you know, around the holidays, and even thinking about bringing
home yo boo for the first time at the holidays,
that's a difficult thing, very you know to think about.
(01:24):
I was thinking about Reagan. You've been married for so long.
Do you remember bringing the way home for the first
time and like what that was?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Like, Oh, yeah, yeah, I do.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
We were deep in teenage love and I don't remember
what everyone else thought because I was just so deep
in it myself. But because of how much I loved him,
they loved him as well.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
And that was like twenty six years ago. Period, Little
Rod I saw recently you popped out like my wife,
our first day is okay, so tell me about this wedding.
It wasn't a wedding.
Speaker 6 (02:00):
So we got to Elope, right, okay, And so we
went to I mean, I guess ain't nobody gonna catch
it that now, but we went to Van Eyes.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
It was funny cause we dressed really nice, and you know,
the whole moment you were just walking in there like
everybody else is like you can see people frustrated what
they paperwork for like their driver's licenses, different things, and
we can't connect to get married.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
That's so funny, but that must be really that's still
no matter what, Like when you love somebody, that type
of memory is always like yeah, that's.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
And that was fun for me. But honestly, I can't
wait to give her the ceremony she wants. We're gonna
do it next year. We're gonna do whatever she wants
and do it big and just let her get that
that little girl dream of a princess wedding.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
So it made you guys decide to Elope then instead
of what.
Speaker 6 (02:47):
It was, it was more of our conversation with God,
like we did that for God to get it done
and over with, and we didn't want that to make
make the ceremony about what was happening.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Okay, you know what I'm saying, Like, I love.
Speaker 6 (02:58):
Is way stronger than just a ceremony. But I know
that's what she I'm good, Like if we just did
the van I thing.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
You know, I'm satisfied. I am because I love that.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
I'm so happy that she let me be a part
of her life, you know what I'm saying. And a girl,
so it's like I'm good.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
I like to see that. Yeah, yeah, I know it's
going to be incorporated into your stand up too, because it.
Speaker 6 (03:25):
Has been it's really funny. Like I was on stage
this past weekend, I talked about a lot of it.
So it's just I mean, and also it's funny also
doing this material that I've been doing lately from this
happy place, and so it's been a lot of fun.
But it's so funny and it's so random. It's still
my little real version of doing stuff. But it's really
(03:45):
funny because I'm very They don't know how observing I
am because I'm like such a like dad, I'd be
like chilling. I take it in. People don't know that
it's a list of things going on in my head
most of the time. I'm sitting there watching so many
random things. When you see me on stage, like like,
(04:07):
where did that come from?
Speaker 1 (04:09):
You know, I'm an observer.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Yeah, this is our second movie and the first one.
I think he said two or three words the whole time.
I said that is the start movie, not Fall.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Oh he would not I was chilling.
Speaker 6 (04:23):
Yeah, but miss Anna, you know she also you know
miss Anna, Missanna.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Got to say, so are you you're talkative on set?
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Like okay, well you know I'm from Harlem.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Yeah, so.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
We always had to tell people at the stage.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
But it was so interesting because I said, he's so quiet,
and you just say, oh, but you know he's listening
to everything, okay, and very alert, don't.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
You know, want interfit in the subject. And he was
taking in all the stories.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Taking It's so amazing to have miss Aison in here.
Do y'all think, like just some of the most iconic
shows and movies like and plays and everything that you've
been in there? Surely do you feel like a legend?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
No?
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Okay, now I feel I have the luckiest girl in
the world. And every time I go to one hundred
and twenty second Street and third on Lenox Avenue because I.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Had to become a landlord. You know, you got to
be a five hats honey if you're from New York.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Yeah. But the idea is it was a dream or
a fantasy. And I told my mother, so I gotta
go to Hollywood. I gotta go to Hollywood. And she said, good.
You know, she never said no. I mean, that's the
one advice you tell a parent. Whatever the child says
they're dreaming about, just listen, right, just listen, because you
have no idea what God send me here to do.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
And that's how these creative arts are really in praying
when it comes to education.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Yes, and you don't have to do it for a
life or a whole thing. I didn't know I was
gonna have a career this long.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
I just tell you.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
And when it happened, you said, ooh, so somebody else
besides my mother. My mother used to make all the
number men, you know when they played numbers, and then they.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Had to buy me flowers for all my plays. You
want me to go to the number hole to thank them,
I said, mommy, I need get no number hole. Now
they give me a rest and say thank you.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
And so you bring your culture with you, and then you.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Realize you have a whole team rooting for you.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Not to say you're gonna make it because people say
there's something about making it. You make it when you
make the first you say it and then you do it,
that's making it. It's not you know, there's no end.
There's no end to this, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
And you love it. I can tell you do. Oh
love it like this is because it's still a job,
a career job, but this is still work. I know.
People think it looks fun but it's literally like endless days.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
You know, I'm a the time.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
I am quiet too, because especially more now like taking
it in because it's like, when you think about it,
you know, a lot of us, a lot of us
are like the first person in our families to do this. Yeah,
and so for the most part, only example I had
was just sitting at home watching this on TV. I'll
never forget when we was in Quarantine, I had a moment.
(07:21):
I think I had like two or three things on
TV at the tight you did ones and I was
sitting there like, Wow, you made it in the TV.
That's craz Like I remember the thought as a kid though,
how it was just a whole other world. I didn't
know if that place even existed.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Yeah, exactly, And I'm like, wow, I'm a part of
this now.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
This is crazy.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
You know what part of the fun of being in
this business too is that when you get to work
with amazing people like Dominique, who plays my sister in
the movie. I have been a fan of hers from
Insecure and rap Shit, and when I knew that we
were going to play sisters, It's like wow, And even
I never worked with before, and Anna Marie I've never
worked with her before, known her since I was four,
(08:00):
So even being able to work with these amazing people,
it's just a blessing.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Ooh and Dominique, I gotta ask you this because Jay
Ellis said that people would come up and slap him.
Oh they should. Yeah. Have you had people be like
mad about your character?
Speaker 6 (08:18):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (08:18):
All the time?
Speaker 7 (08:19):
Since twenty sixteen, I've been one that they love to hate.
It's either like half the world loves me or half
the world hate me.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
What do you think about your character? Is just taking
it out of it? Being you from insecure?
Speaker 2 (08:32):
What can I think about my character?
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Yeah? Like what would you think of Yeah? Like what
would you think about her as a as a real person?
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (08:38):
I think she's a great person. I think she really was.
Speaker 7 (08:41):
I mean, yeah, now I will say I will admit
finally in twenty twenty five when she went up there's
a scene where Tasha did go up to the best Buy.
I don't with kind of the cleavage happening, And I
was like, no, I don't know she has done it.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
But other than that, I think that she was she
was honest. You know, she will vulnerable.
Speaker 7 (09:00):
You know, she was hard working girl, single, yeah, he
was and he was single, he was, so why.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Not you know, we all got something happening, and that
happens in unexpected Christmas? Yes it does. Little uh something
happening listen, Yes, we all have like a little past.
And I think when people hook up there's always somebody
that's like lingering in the back in the fact, because
nobody is coming with something with a completely clean slate,
(09:28):
except for Reagan when she was younger, and she and
there's things you got to clear up. But sometimes people
are not always honest about those things.
Speaker 6 (09:39):
So do you can I ask you something? Okay, So.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
I don't know if Richard was being this.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Very yes, yes, thank you, thank you can take them
around the world and not expect them to want to fly.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Well, here's the dishonesty. There's another one. I guess there's
the dishes part to me though. When he showed up,
that's when you be like, look, I got to tell
you something.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
No, no, no, you can't say the first moment you
have to.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
That's the best time to break the news because the
longer you wave.
Speaker 6 (10:18):
If you're surprised and you don't expect like because you
have to think about how unexpected that was from Richard.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
And this is early in the movie, so we're not
really giving away too much, but it's one of the
premise of the movie.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
So he doesn't know this is he's about to run
into Like because I say this all the time, like
if a dude, most guys when you're single, especially if
you're talking to women in different coast borrows, especially bist.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
But he didn't know. But once you find out, don't
you think that's the time.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
He don't even know what type of like he don't
know anything because it was nothing ever said to him
about it.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
So I actually have the way around. And she slept
with your brother and then showed up. I didn't know
that was your brother. You want to know right away.
Speaker 6 (11:01):
Like right away, Well, if we're not close. See that's
the thing too, if me and my brother's not close,
I don't.
Speaker 7 (11:08):
Know if, but we don't know what close me weren't
you dating? But weren't you dating Carrie when you were
dating me?
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Because you just keep back.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
It just happen.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
It feels like an overlap.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
When you okay, giving away to.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
It's in a very very beginning, but just to say
he's got a situation. This is how it starts. I'm
just saying, that's not how you related.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
That's not Marissa.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
So that's all that's I don't know, Richie, get it back,
don't you think it's like, let you get what.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
You gotta understand it though, you have to understand.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
I heard of him as dick like they did in
the movie.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Isn't that.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Until run Tail? Yes, Richard Richard.
Speaker 6 (11:54):
The only thing I believe Richard was wrong and this
is something something I had to work out when I was, like,
you know, playing the character was It's interesting watching this
young brother from a privileged family. I thought it was
kind of cool that he was acting like a spoiled
Bratton Away when he made everything about him. That's really
what his problem was. He couldn't commit. He ran from everything.
(12:16):
He was a runner. That's that was richard problem. He
wouldn't he could not face He wouldn't face anything, whether
it's his parents, whether it was he just wouldn't face anything.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
He just run.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
Even in the movie he basically ran.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Yeah, typical, I'm kidding, typical typical Richard. Everybody ain't Richard Richard. Okay,
let me ask you this though. For everybody, don't you
feel like if I go somewhere with you and there's
somebody in that room and you had a past with
them or slept with them, don't you think you should
let the person that you're with, No, Because I don't
think you have to tell everybody your home.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Yeh, no. No.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
If I'm gonna be shaking hands and at the table
with somebody, I'd rather hear that from him.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
I don't know the person you're never gonna see again.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
You're that No, no, no, you're never gonna deal with
in that way again.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
I look, but when you get home, don't forget person
on situations.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
Where I haven't. I can't do that because I was
in these trees.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
It is no way that.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
You know every ward show you see.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Over there, you got some that we didn't get a
chance to see.
Speaker 8 (13:33):
I know.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
But the deal is, you feel sometimes a woman and
well men to pick it up.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
If you see somebody on the bus, so you say hey,
how you doing?
Speaker 4 (13:46):
And then you get off the bus man so you
used to go with him. You you can feel an
energy going on between two or three people.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
But I don't think you have to tell your No.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
I just think that if you're with somebody and we're
in the same house with somebody I used to deal with.
I have to respect the person I'm with and be like,
just so you know, this was before.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
That's what I don't know.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
That's just men take serious different than women take serious.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Like a man will tell you.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Well, we come on, now, we weren't that serious. We
weren't committed. And I said, any time you inject something
in another person's body, you're serious. Men might not take
it serious. Women take it.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
But anyway, the movie is so funny. I have no violence.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
We have no violence because some of this quick lead
lives and yeah, and the writers very clever.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
We don't do that like most black people.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Yeah him and yeah, Now, Dominic, you don't tweet much.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
I used to, but you did put up this. I
said you couldn't wait to get married. Oh I just
put that up. Yeah, so okay, So tell me, like,
what was going on? What made you at that moment,
because this is something that you know clearly, and you
did a couple of posts about that. Yeah, and you
said you want your daughter to see you in a
wedding dress. I do.
Speaker 7 (15:16):
I have this thing that I wake up a lot
of mornings like around three am and just my mind
just be going and I just be thinking about so
much and a lot. And this morning I was actually
just thinking of I was just scrolling on Instagram up
at five am, scrolling and then I just saw this
beautiful lady in this wedding gown and I said, oh,
my gosh, looks like a princess. Then I automatically go
(15:37):
to my daughter. I'm like, I just really want her
to see what healthy love looks like. And I want
her to see that from me because my family has
a line of no disrespect. I love the women in
my family, but we have a line of not being married.
So I want to break that. I mean, I have
a cousin who was married, but I just kind of
want to break that. And that's why I was like,
I just want to be married one day, but means
(15:57):
thing coming soon, I hope.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
So yeah, yeah, ready, yeah, But in these movies coming
coming coming, do you date though, Like, have you gone
to any of these like you know, people like matchmakers
and stuff like whenever.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
I've never done that. I'm very kind of secluded.
Speaker 7 (16:23):
I don't really have a lot of friends that are
telling me like, come out here, this match making things,
So I don't really know like where to go even
need somebody, I go to the I go to.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
Okay, interesting dat, Like I'm has been saying.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
This for you. Why is she an interesting dat?
Speaker 6 (16:46):
Yeah? No, no, no, I mean I'm not going into
details because we've been friends a long time. It's just
you know, yeah, because she's a sweetheart and she's all
these different things.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
But like I choose wrong.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
Ladies, y'all make y'all make, especially like successful black women
make interest and decisions about who y'all give opportunities to
h And it's it's really at this point I feel like,
based off almost all my friends at this point, like
what how did y'all pick this stuff?
Speaker 2 (17:19):
I've heard you like what you don't think?
Speaker 5 (17:24):
You don't you don't think that that is some piss
in the water. Doesn't that that there's not a great
group of guys out there.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Are already dominique.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Dominique I think actresses, especially this new generation, because there's
so many more. You know, when I was coming up
with very few and most members say well, when are
you gonna get a regular job?
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Because you can't say you're going with no actress. So
when you're gonna work again. Yeah, you know what I mean.
So men are very clear about structure. If we agree
to buy a house, I don't want to wait till
your next job comes. I mean the mortgage that month.
You know.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
So being an actress takes you to a whole nother dimension.
Then you have to say, he said, well is she
acting with me? I had a boyfriend when I was
with Amen, and he would help me with the lines,
except when it came to the love scenes, would not
want to go through. I said what you were saying
it in life because I looked and I looked at
(18:23):
the show after and said, I do look like I'm
in love with Clifton Davis.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Yeah, I know, I looked.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
That was my show, and I look like I love
that tired man. So you're living with somebody that looks
or the world thinks she's in love with this one,
and miss Dominique looks like she would fight you if.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
You come up wrong.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
So a poor guy, a poor guy would say, well,
wait a minute, does she really like me? Or does
she like those men?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
And occasionally not too many black people break.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
Up their relationships. A lot of white couples do. But
you know, if you meet somebody on.
Speaker 8 (19:07):
Clear.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
People don't you're.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Clear on what I want?
Speaker 7 (19:11):
I'm not, well, you know, I just you know someone
on the same playing field, or even somebody that can
be a leader.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
And it's hard to really find that now.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Because you're the leader.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
You're Yeah, training sessions, good one exactly. You know you
got to get one that you can train. Yeah, you
have to train man. A certain ones they don't know
what they want, so you have to say you want.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Train.
Speaker 8 (19:41):
Probably a good woman knows how to train the man
without him thinking he is being trained.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
It's so funny. I joke about this old stage that
well I'm like, well, you know, I only got like
one year left. Keep defending myself because it's a wasted time.
I'm learning that like me putting up a fuss is
just me holding on to like I'm a man, I
should have said everything, but like, honestly, keep the peace. Man,
If you got who you got, is it really worth
(20:10):
to push back?
Speaker 5 (20:12):
If you are lucky, you will have a woman that
you approach them and fall in love and she will
not plan the rest of your life, but kind of
plan the rest of it.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Yeah, and you'll trust it.
Speaker 6 (20:24):
But that's what I'm saying with men, got to realize
if you're not over fighting it for real, women are
looking for somebody that shows leadership and things like that.
But if you're not fighting the most random See, the
problem is we be fighting random things that don't make sense.
It's not a big deal.
Speaker 8 (20:41):
Is worth it?
Speaker 6 (20:43):
If she like, like, just do it?
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Just do it?
Speaker 6 (20:46):
You know what I mean? And I found myself, which
is why I'm telling you. I'm in a beautiful part
of mine. I'm in my old black man era that
I am so comfortable and it just made me a homebody,
like I do. I know my assignments, I know what
time I got to take those garbages out, all the
stuff I gotta do. And it's like but I told him.
(21:07):
I was like, damn, I'm at the end of it now.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
I defend myself. Yeah, there's no point.
Speaker 8 (21:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Have you ever anybody who ever dated somebody that like
your friends and family didn't like?
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Yeah, Usually they don't say they don't like them. I
asked my mother one time, I said, you like so
and so.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
She said, I don't have to sleep with him? Yeah,
And I said that wasn't a question.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
She would not answer that experience that not answering is
an answer.
Speaker 6 (21:34):
Yeah, because if they love someone, they're gonna yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Yeah. So it's it's how to be diplomatic too, because
partly if you say you don't like them, that's gonna
make me try to prove something.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Because you get very stubborn when people don't like somebody,
and you want to prove that, like you made a
good decision.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (21:52):
And a lot of times with me, I will I
just date on sometimes potential. So a lot of times
my friends and family see me at a certain plateau,
not even just career wise, but just me as a person.
And so when they see I show him on Instagram,
it's him, y'all. And then they'd be like, Dominique, what
are you doing? Like what is the water of money
(22:13):
on his on his you know ear? That was back
then under that now and that was back then. But
I was just saying just an example of the show,
like yeah, sometimes they'd be like, what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (22:25):
That was in the past. We don't do the money.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
I don't I know what I want, But the.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Fact that you did do that at any point, it's hilarious.
It was crazy because I saw the potential.
Speaker 7 (22:36):
Cash well, yeah, but you know I saw a go
get her right, so somebody you know, entrepreneur, entrepreneur.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
He's coming, he's coming.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Oh yeah, he's coming.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
An influencer, he's doing these great posts.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
You know.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Yeah, we don't want somebody posting our business now.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
We don't want Also, besides being in front of the camera,
also making sure that you're in positions where you're producing, writing,
and those types of transitions in this because I feel like,
you know, acting alone is amazing, but doesn't it make
you always and I know you have done that already,
want to move from from in front of the camera
(23:21):
to behind the camera sometimes too.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
Oh absolutely, I mean Rail is an executive producer.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Yes, yes, he's directing.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
A Well, it just makes you want to be curious
about the other side, because if you're used to being
an actor and saying someone else's lines, the point is
going to come where you're like, this script is terrible,
this ship.
Speaker 7 (23:44):
Is terrible, and you're like, I can do this, Yeah,
I can do this.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
The opposite.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
I started out It's office temp and got into TV
at W N E T. And I told my boy says,
I can't stay here because I'm going to be an
actress and say, don't you just wait until the acting
starts and then I start acting on that particular show
was a time when there were no black TV shows,
(24:11):
and I started there and I enjoyed it so much.
I went from associate producer to casting to a producer,
and then I think I'm the only one that left
producing to become a full time actress, because I said, I.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Don't want to be bothered with all of that because it's.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
A lot of work and get out of here. Yeah,
you just you do.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
But I'm so respectful to the craft because I know
everything involved. Because you start hating actors. One actor came
up to me I was casting the show, and he said, oh,
my agent said I shouldn't work because I didn't signed
the contract.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
I said, leave, leave period.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Don't bother me. Because the writer had just walked out.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
I had to get somebody else to rewrite the script
and we had the cameras and everybody else coming at
seven o'clock in the morning. I don't want to hear
about your contract. Didn't you get paid the week before?
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Go home?
Speaker 3 (25:00):
So they bother you about.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
The little thing and you're looking at the big picture.
So it's a big difference, and I just didn't turn back.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
But it probably helped you though.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
It helps you because you respect.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
You know, when people would talk about this script is
no good, I said, do you think those ten writers
went home?
Speaker 3 (25:16):
And so I'm gonna write a stupid script?
Speaker 4 (25:19):
Really, people doing the best they can and you can
help improve it, you know what I'm saying, especially if
the man is married and happy. If I'm not happy,
they're crazy. But again, my part time job is finding
wise for all of my executive producers on this show.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Get him good, Angela. No, oh, okay, we'll talk.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
I know that, but.
Speaker 6 (25:52):
Real quick though, it's so important. It's so important to
understand the business of it. All of us are not
going to be stars doing everything in front of the
can camera. It's just so especially with everything happening now,
it's like we need more people like Trail and Field
and all those great and you know that's so important
to me. Is truly was learning the business of the business,
like for real, Like I'm like englfed in it now.
(26:14):
It's like this is all I want to do along
with everything else. So because like especially with getting our
stories out here, especially what we're doing unexpected Christmas and
going to theaters. If you look at all the other
especially Black Christmas movies it's coming out this year, they're
all just streaming, and so this is one of the
only ones for real going to movie theaters. And that's
a business decision. And as we're doing these interviews, which
(26:37):
is why I thank you for having us, as we're
doing like more theaters were picking up Steam No.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Seven and listen what I love about going. It's an experience.
I'm gonna be right there, laid back in my seat
with my field those types of theories. Now I'm saying
I have an idea for you. Now I know, Antiga,
let's talk about that for a second. So are you
so my mom is my mom is from my right.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
I know?
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Yeah, yeah, And so I feel like maybe we take
a trip.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
We could because.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Yeah, and dominic I feel like you could meet somebody
in it again, well maybe playing You.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
Know, Dominie is gonna meet her mate. She's gonna meet
her mate. The only thing black women have to understand too,
they have to invest financially because you're dealing with somebody
who doesn't necessarily have the same financial plan that you.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Situation.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
We keep saying we want a man to work.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
The word.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
If he works, he can't bet with you, he can't
fly into this one time.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Second.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
Well yeah, flexible or smart, very smart to do, but.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
We we keep thinking it's a fantasy. We want somebody
on equal basis, equal basis, don't have time for you.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
You know what. We want somebody that's gonna teach us something, right.
I think that's one of the most important things. Like
I do what I do, but I want somebody that's
gonna like put me onto different things that I don't,
but you don't. I don't even right exactly exactly, and
you know that we're always learning things. And I always
want people that are also I feel like, trying to
better themselves and that are ambitious and.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Want to better you. Make you feel happy when you
get home, you know what I mean? Rob them feet,
Rob that next?
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Did those men bother you today?
Speaker 9 (28:20):
Baby? I don't mean nobody be good? Yeah? Okay, okay,
all right, we have to talk about Angela.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
I love yeah, because I know that you you were.
Your family's from Antiqua and Barbuda.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
My mother's Dominican, okay, but dad is from Antiga, Okay,
and always so I'm never gonna.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Marry a man.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Of course, the first time you fall in love is
to the west of your man because you're used to it.
But you don't know that you know certain things and
you still compare.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
You know, for man to not work. And I said, well,
don't your stomach ground. I mean, I'm never My father
worked all the time, you know what I mean. He
got robbed in the store, his first store.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
He was the first black man that had a supermarket
up in Harlem in Manhattan period, and got up, went
threeham because the bullet stayed in him and got joined
this guy we had, came back and worked again. He
was the first black man. They issued a gun permit too.
That's why we had no boyfriends because Daddy in the garment,
(29:29):
he wore that whole stuff with the gun, was gonna
come to your house, come.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
And take it out.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
I said, come with that gun.
Speaker 8 (29:38):
I can't get nobody, but I want to send some value.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
You still use it.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
I'm saying, your stomach is growling. Yeah, three kids wore kids.
Don't you you have to do something? So I don't
understand somebody who is waiting for some somebody else to
give them something. No, you're absolutely, So those are the
values to shape your brain that you can't get rid of.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
As much as I like you, but you.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Know, and I would say for you, like litl Row
being a stand up comedian, I know, in the beginning stages,
it's always a struggle, like just when you're first getting started.
I've heard so many people's stories because a lot of
people don't come necessarily from having money and having like
that'support system and working in those comedy clubs early on,
you're not really getting paid.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
You got a ghost every night. It's a different space.
Speaker 6 (30:31):
And it's funny too because it's I feel like the
it's interesting. I was talking about this one day, but
it was one of the females I dated early on,
especially in my career. You know, I stayed at her
carib at one point, and she'd be at work all day.
You know, I do shows at night, so during the
day I'll be writing and doing all this stuff. And
(30:51):
I remember her coming home from work one day and
seeing me, like six other comedians just laughing it up
and writing, and it looked like we weren't doing it.
And so by the time, like I remember that being
the last moment of her being like, Okay, look, I
believe in you, but you gotta go you.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Know type of thing.
Speaker 6 (31:10):
And I'm and it's funny. I laugh at that now
because I get you being irritated. But I was working though, right,
I just happen to love what I do, and so
you it's funny because she had to break it up
with me and then the dude shed having a baby
with I'm like, well, you took a chance on that,
because right after that, I got like my first deal
(31:31):
and all types of stuff. So it was like, you,
I know, it's fine, but she made it because everybody
make a choice. I mean, because I don't think one
person is for you. It's all about your You make
a choice, and she made that choice because you know,
everybody try to come back around. Yeah about that stuff.
It's like, it's like and I felt bad because in
the beginning to come back to come back around, though.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
She held you down.
Speaker 6 (31:56):
I don't but but she made a decision though, because
it wasn't about holding down. It's like, fam, I'm actually
letting you into my potential too.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Now hold on. You was living at her house right, No,
but see but see this is where it gets. This
is where the conversation.
Speaker 6 (32:12):
Gets get up because I didn't. I didn't argue about leaving.
I knew who I was becoming.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Right.
Speaker 6 (32:21):
If you were just a little patient because I wasn't
not doing anything and then you end up having a
kid by somebody who's like, wait, you really had to
find the potential. You saw my potential. You saw me
get standing ovations, you saw all this, you saw it
was there.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
You know.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
That's so funny. I interview the other day about her,
but and we were talking about her getting back together
with Lawrence on Insecure, and I was like, I mean,
you put all that time and you should reap some
of those benefits when he finally made some money, because yeah,
and we see how it ended.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Yeah, they were together.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (32:53):
I mean.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Listen, they're telling me, you guys gotta go. Okay, we
could talk.
Speaker 6 (33:01):
To er, Yeah we could.
Speaker 7 (33:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (33:03):
This is.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
I'm so proud of y'all. This movie was amazing when
I was watching it, and also the fact that I
personally know yeah, like some of you, that was fun
for me to be able to see that and to
see all the detention and know what was going on.
But amazing, phenomenal job. You are such a blessing. Like
I told you, we're gonna do some things. Yes, we
have to. I gotta get down to Antiga. That's, you know, throw.
Speaker 6 (33:31):
Something all of us can travel because I love Antiga.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
You do, Okay, I want to come to I don't
want to talk to none of my cousins.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Okay, we got to do Unexpected Christmas.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
And I don't know I don't know you that my
father said, you don't have no relative.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Yeah, all right, well make sure y'all go see Unexpected Christmas.
There you go. It's a whole vibe. November seventh in theaters.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Yes, soundtrack is out right now.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
And if you go ever one woman and then you
bring somebody else, you got to pretend you didn't see
it already. Yeah, but go twice if you have to
be Christmas. Here's way up
Oh, this is exciting. It's way up with Angela Yee
and I got a cast if I feel like friends
up here and we're talking about unexpected Christmas heavy on
the X. All right, Dominie Perry is here, Hello, Hello
Reggae and Gomez is here, Hey girl, Hello, Ra Howry
is here, and miss Anna Maria Horsford is here.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Hello.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Listen. First of all, how much fun are you guys
having just traveling together, because before we turn these mics on,
it feels like family having alas. Yeah, this is nice.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
I haven't done a junket like this and years.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Really you haven't. What you think that? Well, I guess
after the pandemic everybody was doing like zoom stuff. But
it is rare that we see people going out like
this and doing interviews and you have outside.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
And promoting a movie that's in theater.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Yeah, I know, right, it's usually yeah TV shows that
they do, but it's it's different.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
This is good. This feels like it was like so
we had a good time shooting too.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
You know, I love good holiday movies and this one, boy,
I didn't know where it was going when it first started.
But family can be dramatic and it can be like hard,
you know, around the holidays, and even thinking about bringing
home yo boo for the first time at the holidays,
that's a difficult thing, very you know to think about.
(01:24):
I was thinking about Reagan. You've been married for so long.
Do you remember bringing the way home for the first
time and like what that was?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Like, Oh, yeah, yeah, I do.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
We were deep in teenage love and I don't remember
what everyone else thought because I was just so deep
in it myself. But because of how much I loved him,
they loved him as well.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
And that was like twenty six years ago. Period, Little
Rod I saw recently you popped out like my wife,
our first day is okay, so tell me about this wedding.
It wasn't a wedding.
Speaker 6 (02:00):
So we got to Elope, right, okay, And so we
went to I mean, I guess ain't nobody gonna catch
it that now, but we went to Van Eyes.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
It was funny cause we dressed really nice, and you know,
the whole moment you were just walking in there like
everybody else is like you can see people frustrated what
they paperwork for like their driver's licenses, different things, and
we can't connect to get married.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
That's so funny, but that must be really that's still
no matter what, Like when you love somebody, that type
of memory is always like yeah, that's.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
And that was fun for me. But honestly, I can't
wait to give her the ceremony she wants. We're gonna
do it next year. We're gonna do whatever she wants
and do it big and just let her get that
that little girl dream of a princess wedding.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
So it made you guys decide to Elope then instead
of what.
Speaker 6 (02:47):
It was, it was more of our conversation with God,
like we did that for God to get it done
and over with, and we didn't want that to make
make the ceremony about what was happening.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Okay, you know what I'm saying, Like, I love.
Speaker 6 (02:58):
Is way stronger than just a ceremony. But I know
that's what she I'm good, Like if we just did
the van I thing.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
You know, I'm satisfied. I am because I love that.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
I'm so happy that she let me be a part
of her life, you know what I'm saying. And a girl,
so it's like I'm good.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
I like to see that. Yeah, yeah, I know it's
going to be incorporated into your stand up too, because it.
Speaker 6 (03:25):
Has been it's really funny. Like I was on stage
this past weekend, I talked about a lot of it.
So it's just I mean, and also it's funny also
doing this material that I've been doing lately from this
happy place, and so it's been a lot of fun.
But it's so funny and it's so random. It's still
my little real version of doing stuff. But it's really
(03:45):
funny because I'm very They don't know how observing I
am because I'm like such a like dad, I'd be
like chilling. I take it in. People don't know that
it's a list of things going on in my head
most of the time. I'm sitting there watching so many
random things. When you see me on stage, like like,
(04:07):
where did that come from?
Speaker 1 (04:09):
You know, I'm an observer.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Yeah, this is our second movie and the first one.
I think he said two or three words the whole time.
I said that is the start movie, not Fall.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Oh he would not I was chilling.
Speaker 6 (04:23):
Yeah, but miss Anna, you know she also you know
miss Anna, Missanna.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Got to say, so are you you're talkative on set?
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Like okay, well you know I'm from Harlem.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Yeah, so.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
We always had to tell people at the stage.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
But it was so interesting because I said, he's so quiet,
and you just say, oh, but you know he's listening
to everything, okay, and very alert, don't.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
You know, want interfit in the subject. And he was
taking in all the stories.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Taking It's so amazing to have miss Aison in here.
Do y'all think, like just some of the most iconic
shows and movies like and plays and everything that you've
been in there? Surely do you feel like a legend?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
No?
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Okay, now I feel I have the luckiest girl in
the world. And every time I go to one hundred
and twenty second Street and third on Lenox Avenue because I.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Had to become a landlord. You know, you got to
be a five hats honey if you're from New York.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Yeah. But the idea is it was a dream or
a fantasy. And I told my mother, so I gotta
go to Hollywood. I gotta go to Hollywood. And she said, good.
You know, she never said no. I mean, that's the
one advice you tell a parent. Whatever the child says
they're dreaming about, just listen, right, just listen, because you
have no idea what God send me here to do.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
And that's how these creative arts are really in praying
when it comes to education.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Yes, and you don't have to do it for a
life or a whole thing. I didn't know I was
gonna have a career this long.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
I just tell you.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
And when it happened, you said, ooh, so somebody else
besides my mother. My mother used to make all the
number men, you know when they played numbers, and then they.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Had to buy me flowers for all my plays. You
want me to go to the number hole to thank them,
I said, mommy, I need get no number hole. Now
they give me a rest and say thank you.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
And so you bring your culture with you, and then you.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Realize you have a whole team rooting for you.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Not to say you're gonna make it because people say
there's something about making it. You make it when you
make the first you say it and then you do it,
that's making it. It's not you know, there's no end.
There's no end to this, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
And you love it. I can tell you do. Oh
love it like this is because it's still a job,
a career job, but this is still work. I know.
People think it looks fun but it's literally like endless days.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
You know, I'm a the time.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
I am quiet too, because especially more now like taking
it in because it's like, when you think about it,
you know, a lot of us, a lot of us
are like the first person in our families to do this. Yeah,
and so for the most part, only example I had
was just sitting at home watching this on TV. I'll
never forget when we was in Quarantine, I had a moment.
(07:21):
I think I had like two or three things on
TV at the tight you did ones and I was
sitting there like, Wow, you made it in the TV.
That's craz Like I remember the thought as a kid though,
how it was just a whole other world. I didn't
know if that place even existed.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Yeah, exactly, And I'm like, wow, I'm a part of
this now.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
This is crazy.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
You know what part of the fun of being in
this business too is that when you get to work
with amazing people like Dominique, who plays my sister in
the movie. I have been a fan of hers from
Insecure and rap Shit, and when I knew that we
were going to play sisters, It's like wow, And even
I never worked with before, and Anna Marie I've never
worked with her before, known her since I was four,
(08:00):
So even being able to work with these amazing people,
it's just a blessing.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Ooh and Dominique, I gotta ask you this because Jay
Ellis said that people would come up and slap him.
Oh they should. Yeah. Have you had people be like
mad about your character?
Speaker 6 (08:18):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (08:18):
All the time?
Speaker 7 (08:19):
Since twenty sixteen, I've been one that they love to hate.
It's either like half the world loves me or half
the world hate me.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
What do you think about your character? Is just taking
it out of it? Being you from insecure?
Speaker 2 (08:32):
What can I think about my character?
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Yeah? Like what would you think of Yeah? Like what
would you think about her as a as a real person?
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (08:38):
I think she's a great person. I think she really was.
Speaker 7 (08:41):
I mean, yeah, now I will say I will admit
finally in twenty twenty five when she went up there's
a scene where Tasha did go up to the best Buy.
I don't with kind of the cleavage happening, And I
was like, no, I don't know she has done it.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
But other than that, I think that she was she
was honest. You know, she will vulnerable.
Speaker 7 (09:00):
You know, she was hard working girl, single, yeah, he
was and he was single, he was, so why.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Not you know, we all got something happening, and that
happens in unexpected Christmas? Yes it does. Little uh something
happening listen, Yes, we all have like a little past.
And I think when people hook up there's always somebody
that's like lingering in the back in the fact, because
nobody is coming with something with a completely clean slate,
(09:28):
except for Reagan when she was younger, and she and
there's things you got to clear up. But sometimes people
are not always honest about those things.
Speaker 6 (09:39):
So do you can I ask you something? Okay, So.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
I don't know if Richard was being this.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Very yes, yes, thank you, thank you can take them
around the world and not expect them to want to fly.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Well, here's the dishonesty. There's another one. I guess there's
the dishes part to me though. When he showed up,
that's when you be like, look, I got to tell
you something.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
No, no, no, you can't say the first moment you
have to.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
That's the best time to break the news because the
longer you wave.
Speaker 6 (10:18):
If you're surprised and you don't expect like because you
have to think about how unexpected that was from Richard.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
And this is early in the movie, so we're not
really giving away too much, but it's one of the
premise of the movie.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
So he doesn't know this is he's about to run
into Like because I say this all the time, like
if a dude, most guys when you're single, especially if
you're talking to women in different coast borrows, especially bist.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
But he didn't know. But once you find out, don't
you think that's the time.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
He don't even know what type of like he don't
know anything because it was nothing ever said to him
about it.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
So I actually have the way around. And she slept
with your brother and then showed up. I didn't know
that was your brother. You want to know right away.
Speaker 6 (11:01):
Like right away, Well, if we're not close. See that's
the thing too, if me and my brother's not close,
I don't.
Speaker 7 (11:08):
Know if, but we don't know what close me weren't
you dating? But weren't you dating Carrie when you were
dating me?
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Because you just keep back.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
It just happen.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
It feels like an overlap.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
When you okay, giving away to.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
It's in a very very beginning, but just to say
he's got a situation. This is how it starts. I'm
just saying, that's not how you related.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
That's not Marissa.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
So that's all that's I don't know, Richie, get it back,
don't you think it's like, let you get what.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
You gotta understand it though, you have to understand.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
I heard of him as dick like they did in
the movie.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Isn't that.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Until run Tail? Yes, Richard Richard.
Speaker 6 (11:54):
The only thing I believe Richard was wrong and this
is something something I had to work out when I was, like,
you know, playing the character was It's interesting watching this
young brother from a privileged family. I thought it was
kind of cool that he was acting like a spoiled
Bratton Away when he made everything about him. That's really
what his problem was. He couldn't commit. He ran from everything.
(12:16):
He was a runner. That's that was richard problem. He
wouldn't he could not face He wouldn't face anything, whether
it's his parents, whether it was he just wouldn't face anything.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
He just run.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
Even in the movie he basically ran.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Yeah, typical, I'm kidding, typical typical Richard. Everybody ain't Richard Richard. Okay,
let me ask you this though. For everybody, don't you
feel like if I go somewhere with you and there's
somebody in that room and you had a past with
them or slept with them, don't you think you should
let the person that you're with, No, Because I don't
think you have to tell everybody your home.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Yeh, no. No.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
If I'm gonna be shaking hands and at the table
with somebody, I'd rather hear that from him.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
I don't know the person you're never gonna see again.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
You're that No, no, no, you're never gonna deal with
in that way again.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
I look, but when you get home, don't forget person
on situations.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
Where I haven't. I can't do that because I was
in these trees.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
It is no way that.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
You know every ward show you see.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Over there, you got some that we didn't get a
chance to see.
Speaker 8 (13:33):
I know.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
But the deal is, you feel sometimes a woman and
well men to pick it up.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
If you see somebody on the bus, so you say hey,
how you doing?
Speaker 4 (13:46):
And then you get off the bus man so you
used to go with him. You you can feel an
energy going on between two or three people.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
But I don't think you have to tell your No.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
I just think that if you're with somebody and we're
in the same house with somebody I used to deal with.
I have to respect the person I'm with and be like,
just so you know, this was before.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
That's what I don't know.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
That's just men take serious different than women take serious.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Like a man will tell you.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Well, we come on, now, we weren't that serious. We
weren't committed. And I said, any time you inject something
in another person's body, you're serious. Men might not take
it serious. Women take it.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
But anyway, the movie is so funny. I have no violence.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
We have no violence because some of this quick lead
lives and yeah, and the writers very clever.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
We don't do that like most black people.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Yeah him and yeah, Now, Dominic, you don't tweet much.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
I used to, but you did put up this. I
said you couldn't wait to get married. Oh I just
put that up. Yeah, so okay, So tell me, like,
what was going on? What made you at that moment,
because this is something that you know clearly, and you
did a couple of posts about that. Yeah, and you
said you want your daughter to see you in a
wedding dress. I do.
Speaker 7 (15:16):
I have this thing that I wake up a lot
of mornings like around three am and just my mind
just be going and I just be thinking about so
much and a lot. And this morning I was actually
just thinking of I was just scrolling on Instagram up
at five am, scrolling and then I just saw this
beautiful lady in this wedding gown and I said, oh,
my gosh, looks like a princess. Then I automatically go
(15:37):
to my daughter. I'm like, I just really want her
to see what healthy love looks like. And I want
her to see that from me because my family has
a line of no disrespect. I love the women in
my family, but we have a line of not being married.
So I want to break that. I mean, I have
a cousin who was married, but I just kind of
want to break that. And that's why I was like,
I just want to be married one day, but means
(15:57):
thing coming soon, I hope.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
So yeah, yeah, ready, yeah, But in these movies coming
coming coming, do you date though, Like, have you gone
to any of these like you know, people like matchmakers
and stuff like whenever.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
I've never done that. I'm very kind of secluded.
Speaker 7 (16:23):
I don't really have a lot of friends that are
telling me like, come out here, this match making things,
So I don't really know like where to go even
need somebody, I go to the I go to.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
Okay, interesting dat, Like I'm has been saying.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
This for you. Why is she an interesting dat?
Speaker 6 (16:46):
Yeah? No, no, no, I mean I'm not going into
details because we've been friends a long time. It's just
you know, yeah, because she's a sweetheart and she's all
these different things.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
But like I choose wrong.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
Ladies, y'all make y'all make, especially like successful black women
make interest and decisions about who y'all give opportunities to
h And it's it's really at this point I feel like,
based off almost all my friends at this point, like
what how did y'all pick this stuff?
Speaker 2 (17:19):
I've heard you like what you don't think?
Speaker 5 (17:24):
You don't you don't think that that is some piss
in the water. Doesn't that that there's not a great
group of guys out there.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Are already dominique.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Dominique I think actresses, especially this new generation, because there's
so many more. You know, when I was coming up
with very few and most members say well, when are
you gonna get a regular job?
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Because you can't say you're going with no actress. So
when you're gonna work again. Yeah, you know what I mean.
So men are very clear about structure. If we agree
to buy a house, I don't want to wait till
your next job comes. I mean the mortgage that month.
You know.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
So being an actress takes you to a whole nother dimension.
Then you have to say, he said, well is she
acting with me? I had a boyfriend when I was
with Amen, and he would help me with the lines,
except when it came to the love scenes, would not
want to go through. I said what you were saying
it in life because I looked and I looked at
(18:23):
the show after and said, I do look like I'm
in love with Clifton Davis.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Yeah, I know, I looked.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
That was my show, and I look like I love
that tired man. So you're living with somebody that looks
or the world thinks she's in love with this one,
and miss Dominique looks like she would fight you if.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
You come up wrong.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
So a poor guy, a poor guy would say, well,
wait a minute, does she really like me? Or does
she like those men?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
And occasionally not too many black people break.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
Up their relationships. A lot of white couples do. But
you know, if you meet somebody on.
Speaker 8 (19:07):
Clear.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
People don't you're.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Clear on what I want?
Speaker 7 (19:11):
I'm not, well, you know, I just you know someone
on the same playing field, or even somebody that can
be a leader.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
And it's hard to really find that now.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Because you're the leader.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
You're Yeah, training sessions, good one exactly. You know you
got to get one that you can train. Yeah, you
have to train man. A certain ones they don't know
what they want, so you have to say you want.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Train.
Speaker 8 (19:41):
Probably a good woman knows how to train the man
without him thinking he is being trained.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
It's so funny. I joke about this old stage that
well I'm like, well, you know, I only got like
one year left. Keep defending myself because it's a wasted time.
I'm learning that like me putting up a fuss is
just me holding on to like I'm a man, I
should have said everything, but like, honestly, keep the peace. Man,
If you got who you got, is it really worth
(20:10):
to push back?
Speaker 5 (20:12):
If you are lucky, you will have a woman that
you approach them and fall in love and she will
not plan the rest of your life, but kind of
plan the rest of it.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Yeah, and you'll trust it.
Speaker 6 (20:24):
But that's what I'm saying with men, got to realize
if you're not over fighting it for real, women are
looking for somebody that shows leadership and things like that.
But if you're not fighting the most random See, the
problem is we be fighting random things that don't make sense.
It's not a big deal.
Speaker 8 (20:41):
Is worth it?
Speaker 6 (20:43):
If she like, like, just do it?
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Just do it?
Speaker 6 (20:46):
You know what I mean? And I found myself, which
is why I'm telling you. I'm in a beautiful part
of mine. I'm in my old black man era that
I am so comfortable and it just made me a homebody,
like I do. I know my assignments, I know what
time I got to take those garbages out, all the
stuff I gotta do. And it's like but I told him.
(21:07):
I was like, damn, I'm at the end of it now.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
I defend myself. Yeah, there's no point.
Speaker 8 (21:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Have you ever anybody who ever dated somebody that like
your friends and family didn't like?
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Yeah, Usually they don't say they don't like them. I
asked my mother one time, I said, you like so
and so.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
She said, I don't have to sleep with him? Yeah,
And I said that wasn't a question.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
She would not answer that experience that not answering is
an answer.
Speaker 6 (21:34):
Yeah, because if they love someone, they're gonna yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Yeah. So it's it's how to be diplomatic too, because
partly if you say you don't like them, that's gonna
make me try to prove something.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Because you get very stubborn when people don't like somebody,
and you want to prove that, like you made a
good decision.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (21:52):
And a lot of times with me, I will I
just date on sometimes potential. So a lot of times
my friends and family see me at a certain plateau,
not even just career wise, but just me as a person.
And so when they see I show him on Instagram,
it's him, y'all. And then they'd be like, Dominique, what
are you doing? Like what is the water of money
(22:13):
on his on his you know ear? That was back
then under that now and that was back then. But
I was just saying just an example of the show,
like yeah, sometimes they'd be like, what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (22:25):
That was in the past. We don't do the money.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
I don't I know what I want, But the.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Fact that you did do that at any point, it's hilarious.
It was crazy because I saw the potential.
Speaker 7 (22:36):
Cash well, yeah, but you know I saw a go
get her right, so somebody you know, entrepreneur, entrepreneur.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
He's coming, he's coming.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Oh yeah, he's coming.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
An influencer, he's doing these great posts.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
You know.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Yeah, we don't want somebody posting our business now.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
We don't want Also, besides being in front of the camera,
also making sure that you're in positions where you're producing, writing,
and those types of transitions in this because I feel like,
you know, acting alone is amazing, but doesn't it make
you always and I know you have done that already,
want to move from from in front of the camera
(23:21):
to behind the camera sometimes too.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
Oh absolutely, I mean Rail is an executive producer.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Yes, yes, he's directing.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
A Well, it just makes you want to be curious
about the other side, because if you're used to being
an actor and saying someone else's lines, the point is
going to come where you're like, this script is terrible,
this ship.
Speaker 7 (23:44):
Is terrible, and you're like, I can do this, Yeah,
I can do this.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
The opposite.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
I started out It's office temp and got into TV
at W N E T. And I told my boy says,
I can't stay here because I'm going to be an
actress and say, don't you just wait until the acting
starts and then I start acting on that particular show
was a time when there were no black TV shows,
(24:11):
and I started there and I enjoyed it so much.
I went from associate producer to casting to a producer,
and then I think I'm the only one that left
producing to become a full time actress, because I said, I.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Don't want to be bothered with all of that because it's.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
A lot of work and get out of here. Yeah,
you just you do.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
But I'm so respectful to the craft because I know
everything involved. Because you start hating actors. One actor came
up to me I was casting the show, and he said, oh,
my agent said I shouldn't work because I didn't signed
the contract.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
I said, leave, leave period.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Don't bother me. Because the writer had just walked out.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
I had to get somebody else to rewrite the script
and we had the cameras and everybody else coming at
seven o'clock in the morning. I don't want to hear
about your contract. Didn't you get paid the week before?
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Go home?
Speaker 3 (25:00):
So they bother you about.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
The little thing and you're looking at the big picture.
So it's a big difference, and I just didn't turn back.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
But it probably helped you though.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
It helps you because you respect.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
You know, when people would talk about this script is
no good, I said, do you think those ten writers
went home?
Speaker 3 (25:16):
And so I'm gonna write a stupid script?
Speaker 4 (25:19):
Really, people doing the best they can and you can
help improve it, you know what I'm saying, especially if
the man is married and happy. If I'm not happy,
they're crazy. But again, my part time job is finding
wise for all of my executive producers on this show.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Get him good, Angela. No, oh, okay, we'll talk.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
I know that, but.
Speaker 6 (25:52):
Real quick though, it's so important. It's so important to
understand the business of it. All of us are not
going to be stars doing everything in front of the
can camera. It's just so especially with everything happening now,
it's like we need more people like Trail and Field
and all those great and you know that's so important
to me. Is truly was learning the business of the business,
like for real, Like I'm like englfed in it now.
(26:14):
It's like this is all I want to do along
with everything else. So because like especially with getting our
stories out here, especially what we're doing unexpected Christmas and
going to theaters. If you look at all the other
especially Black Christmas movies it's coming out this year, they're
all just streaming, and so this is one of the
only ones for real going to movie theaters. And that's
a business decision. And as we're doing these interviews, which
(26:37):
is why I thank you for having us, as we're
doing like more theaters were picking up Steam No.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Seven and listen what I love about going. It's an experience.
I'm gonna be right there, laid back in my seat
with my field those types of theories. Now I'm saying
I have an idea for you. Now I know, Antiga,
let's talk about that for a second. So are you
so my mom is my mom is from my right.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
I know?
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Yeah, yeah, And so I feel like maybe we take
a trip.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
We could because.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Yeah, and dominic I feel like you could meet somebody
in it again, well maybe playing You.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
Know, Dominie is gonna meet her mate. She's gonna meet
her mate. The only thing black women have to understand too,
they have to invest financially because you're dealing with somebody
who doesn't necessarily have the same financial plan that you.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Situation.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
We keep saying we want a man to work.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
The word.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
If he works, he can't bet with you, he can't
fly into this one time.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Second.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
Well yeah, flexible or smart, very smart to do, but.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
We we keep thinking it's a fantasy. We want somebody
on equal basis, equal basis, don't have time for you.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
You know what. We want somebody that's gonna teach us something, right.
I think that's one of the most important things. Like
I do what I do, but I want somebody that's
gonna like put me onto different things that I don't,
but you don't. I don't even right exactly exactly, and
you know that we're always learning things. And I always
want people that are also I feel like, trying to
better themselves and that are ambitious and.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Want to better you. Make you feel happy when you
get home, you know what I mean? Rob them feet,
Rob that next?
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Did those men bother you today?
Speaker 9 (28:20):
Baby? I don't mean nobody be good? Yeah? Okay, okay,
all right, we have to talk about Angela.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
I love yeah, because I know that you you were.
Your family's from Antiqua and Barbuda.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
My mother's Dominican, okay, but dad is from Antiga, Okay,
and always so I'm never gonna.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Marry a man.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Of course, the first time you fall in love is
to the west of your man because you're used to it.
But you don't know that you know certain things and
you still compare.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
You know, for man to not work. And I said, well,
don't your stomach ground. I mean, I'm never My father
worked all the time, you know what I mean. He
got robbed in the store, his first store.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
He was the first black man that had a supermarket
up in Harlem in Manhattan period, and got up, went
threeham because the bullet stayed in him and got joined
this guy we had, came back and worked again. He
was the first black man. They issued a gun permit too.
That's why we had no boyfriends because Daddy in the garment,
(29:29):
he wore that whole stuff with the gun, was gonna
come to your house, come.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
And take it out.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
I said, come with that gun.
Speaker 8 (29:38):
I can't get nobody, but I want to send some value.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
You still use it.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
I'm saying, your stomach is growling. Yeah, three kids wore kids.
Don't you you have to do something? So I don't
understand somebody who is waiting for some somebody else to
give them something. No, you're absolutely, So those are the
values to shape your brain that you can't get rid of.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
As much as I like you, but you.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Know, and I would say for you, like litl Row
being a stand up comedian, I know, in the beginning stages,
it's always a struggle, like just when you're first getting started.
I've heard so many people's stories because a lot of
people don't come necessarily from having money and having like
that'support system and working in those comedy clubs early on,
you're not really getting paid.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
You got a ghost every night. It's a different space.
Speaker 6 (30:31):
And it's funny too because it's I feel like the
it's interesting. I was talking about this one day, but
it was one of the females I dated early on,
especially in my career. You know, I stayed at her
carib at one point, and she'd be at work all day.
You know, I do shows at night, so during the
day I'll be writing and doing all this stuff. And
(30:51):
I remember her coming home from work one day and
seeing me, like six other comedians just laughing it up
and writing, and it looked like we weren't doing it.
And so by the time, like I remember that being
the last moment of her being like, Okay, look, I
believe in you, but you gotta go you.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Know type of thing.
Speaker 6 (31:10):
And I'm and it's funny. I laugh at that now
because I get you being irritated. But I was working though, right,
I just happen to love what I do, and so
you it's funny because she had to break it up
with me and then the dude shed having a baby
with I'm like, well, you took a chance on that,
because right after that, I got like my first deal
(31:31):
and all types of stuff. So it was like, you,
I know, it's fine, but she made it because everybody
make a choice. I mean, because I don't think one
person is for you. It's all about your You make
a choice, and she made that choice because you know,
everybody try to come back around. Yeah about that stuff.
It's like, it's like and I felt bad because in
the beginning to come back to come back around, though.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
She held you down.
Speaker 6 (31:56):
I don't but but she made a decision though, because
it wasn't about holding down. It's like, fam, I'm actually
letting you into my potential too.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Now hold on. You was living at her house right, No,
but see but see this is where it gets. This
is where the conversation.
Speaker 6 (32:12):
Gets get up because I didn't. I didn't argue about leaving.
I knew who I was becoming.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Right.
Speaker 6 (32:21):
If you were just a little patient because I wasn't
not doing anything and then you end up having a
kid by somebody who's like, wait, you really had to
find the potential. You saw my potential. You saw me
get standing ovations, you saw all this, you saw it
was there.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
You know.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
That's so funny. I interview the other day about her,
but and we were talking about her getting back together
with Lawrence on Insecure, and I was like, I mean,
you put all that time and you should reap some
of those benefits when he finally made some money, because yeah,
and we see how it ended.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Yeah, they were together.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (32:53):
I mean.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Listen, they're telling me, you guys gotta go. Okay, we
could talk.
Speaker 6 (33:01):
To er, Yeah we could.
Speaker 7 (33:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (33:03):
This is.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
I'm so proud of y'all. This movie was amazing when
I was watching it, and also the fact that I
personally know yeah, like some of you, that was fun
for me to be able to see that and to
see all the detention and know what was going on.
But amazing, phenomenal job. You are such a blessing. Like
I told you, we're gonna do some things. Yes, we
have to. I gotta get down to Antiga. That's, you know, throw.
Speaker 6 (33:31):
Something all of us can travel because I love Antiga.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
You do, Okay, I want to come to I don't
want to talk to none of my cousins.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Okay, we got to do Unexpected Christmas.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
And I don't know I don't know you that my
father said, you don't have no relative.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Yeah, all right, well make sure y'all go see Unexpected Christmas.
There you go. It's a whole vibe. November seventh in theaters.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Yes, soundtrack is out right now.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
And if you go ever one woman and then you
bring somebody else, you got to pretend you didn't see
it already. Yeah, but go twice if you have to
be Christmas. Here's way up
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