March 26, 2025 • 26 mins
In this episode, I sit down with actress Danielle LaRoach to discuss her exciting new movie Darwin and her journey as an actress in Hollywood. Danielle opens up about the challenges and triumphs of navigating the entertainment industry, offering a behind-the-scenes look at her latest project. From auditioning to landing roles, we dive into her experiences and the lessons she's learned along the way. Whether you're a film enthusiast or someone interested in the life of a working actor, this conversation with Danielle is a must-listen!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Are you doing. I'm doing good, are you I I'm
just chilling, that's what you say.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
But I am chilling.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Yet when it came in here like you was ready
to take over the show as you should, I came
up here with the badest on your little Bokay, you
better you come in.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I like to wear something with little friends to give
me a little you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
It did definitely get some pozz. Was walking in the fringes, Mama.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Said before I left. She said, now you're saying something. Okay,
but yo, Mama, she be saying a lot.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Yeah, she knows about and head. About five years ago,
I said, I would never need this. Where are you
from Louisiana? Okay, Louisiana?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
I have a couple of well I know a couple
of my homegirls like they from Louisiana.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Band rouge I know? Okay, yeah, so too cool? Cool
as hell? You be doing the little dance that WHI
ch'all be doing or that's basically gigging.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
I'm I'm you know. Born in the nineties. We was jigulators,
was gig into pieces because banners was Jiga City shout
out to the pills and that was. Okay, shout out
to you. Stop playing you know where you're from.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Yes, but for sure, Okay, y'all listen, Dan Yeller, Roach
is in the building.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Yeah, great energy, great, great energy. You got a lot
going on, Yes, a lot of major things going on.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yes, Yes, so I did. Yes, he is all the time.
And I know you.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
You have a new role. You just landed a role
in a movie that premierees on Thursday.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yes, Thursday on All Black. Yeah, let's talk about that.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Yeah, I'm playing taj it Is. This is very much
a new character for me. You know, I'm known very
well for playing Belinda on to the team of very
Loud and wild and villainous.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
And taj Is.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
You know, she's street savvy, she's escaped foster care. You know,
she was going from home to home like a lot
of things were happening, and she pretty much chose what
she knew and what she had available to her. And
I love playing characters like this because as an actress,
I never judge any character I play. So if you
read the script off top, you like this girl, this girl.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
You have to do that.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Yeah, you could have just when it worked at the
Souper Market, okay, But I realized that when you watch
the movie and you see the cars that she was dealt,
which she went through, from her relationship with her mother,
her father, her mother's in prison, Like it's just so
many things that you can see how your life could
have easily gone the way. And I look at it
like I could have easily been toads, you know, yeah,
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and it's you know, I'm not surrounded by too many
females in the movie. I have a older cousin played
by Martin Bat's my best friend slash like love interest
is King Kiran.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
He's amazing, you know, Houston shout out to Houston.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
And we really, I think show I think that you
can see the love and the film and what I
love about it is we are criminals. Let's just be honest.
You know, we are living the less beaten path of life.
We are you know, the little thing that goes creeping in.
But I think that once people get to see our
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characters and embrace us, they will have you know, understanding
for us and just kind of see how we got there.
But it is a wild ride, and it is a
crime drama, and then it's a grare switch.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
So it's in its own genre. It switches to a
horror Yeah. I was thinking that.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
I'm like, so, okay, so the first part is the
crime drama, crime drama, and then is horror y, like
like how does that even possible? Like now like now
you ah, so.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
You catch it, don't give it over?
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Oh yeah yeah yeah, because I've seen the trailer and
now I can see where the switch come at. Yeah, okay,
I think, like, you know, I believe that Taj like
any other criminal. You know how, you think you're gonna
keep getting away with something you ain't gonna keep getting away,
and then you you venture into a new area in
unknown territory, you start barking up trees you never bark up,
and all of a sudden, now you're dealing with a
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serious situation. And I think that there are parts of
the movie where you know it's it's gonna look like
I'm not gonna make my way out, and then honestly,
you don't know if I am. I can't even say
in my mind, you know it. The way that it
ends is it's true and a lot of things are unfortunate,
but she she eventually finds her way. I don't want
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to give too much of a way, but it is.
It is quite a ride, and I don't think anybody
is gonna be able to say, oh, I know it's
about to happen.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
You know how you watch a movie and you know
what's gonna happen. Yeah, he's like biting my nails the
whole time.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Whole time. Them the kind of movies I like, Yes, yes,
how so how much fun did you have like filming
this like this movie and being in this role. Oh,
my gosh, having fun? I mean it was fun. I was.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
I was still breastfeeding mom at the time. So you
have an eighteenth eighteenth month old, Yeah, it's my son,
Daniel Angel I was a little boy.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
But during this film, I was, you know, a new mom,
I was postpartum, I was all these things and I
still killed it, you know, and was able to show
up every day. But it was a lot of fun,
especially now being able to leave the project.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
It's just so different.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
You know, you show up to work, you set the
tone a lot of the days. You your attitude and
your energy goes a very long way. So I was
excited to be trusted enough, you know, and respected enough
to lead such a large project, even the budget of
this film. This is one of the biggest budget projects
I've ever been a part of, you know, and it's amazing.
When the money is longer, it's longer.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I know, that's right. Shout out to you.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Off of him.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I didn't have to cut no corner Jesus. Yes, but
of course check thank you. Alian Aaron okay, Alien Aeron
call me. I need a check. We need we need
a battery in the film bag. No, So you okay?
Speaker 1 (05:44):
So you were saying that you were a new mother,
you were breastfeeding at the time and things like that.
So being a mom, a new mom and taking on
this role, so they already knew that you had just
had a baby. Yes, right, So what was that process, like,
you know, did you feel like how did you feel
coming like after you gave birth, after you came back
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from eternity leave, Like how was your confidence coming back acting?
I'm not gonna lie, you know. I shot to the
team of first before I shot this. So I had
told God that I wanted to go back to work
three months postpartum. For me, three months postpartum would have
been December the tenth. I went back to work December eleventh,
that's my son's birthday, Like, god, stop it, Oh my
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goodness looking, but I ain't gonna lie. I had been
in the house with a baby and I hadn't even ever,
you know, I hadn't taken any time to think about myself,
consider myself. You're just kind of in it, you know,
stands a mom, You're.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Just in it.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
And so it was a jarring to my self esteem
and my confidence on set. And I'm so grateful to
Tyler Perry because he literally not literally.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Snatched me up, but his energy.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
He took me to the side and one of my
first scenes back and I thought I was killing it,
you know what I mean, And he was just like,
you are one of the funniest people. Know you are amazing.
He was like, live in it. I need you to
live in this. I need you to live in it.
And after I got out of that scene, I finally
felt the high that you feel from when you're doing
what you're supposed to be doing. I remember having to
grab my scene partner just to ground myself because I
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felt like my feet weren't on the ground. And I,
you know, just becoming a mom, a person coming outside
of yourself. You stopped thinking about you. So I had
to find that balance of okay, confidence and when I'm
not mama when I'm on set, to be honest, you
know what I mean. It's one of my highest jobs
and highest honors. But don't nobody need my titty. Nobody
needs no gray feet on set. That's not a thing
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that you're my talent exactly to show up. So I'm
glad for him, you know, for checking me for that.
And I'm glad I had that moment before I got
to Darwin. Yeah, so that I wasn't there trying to
lead this project and trying to figure it out. But
it was such a pivotal moment I had with Tyler,
And I'm grateful for him saying that to me because
he's all women like.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
He's like a feminist, like.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
He is all about girl powering, about you being your best,
and you know, they didn't make me feel any type
of way about getting ped. You know, I love that
they were very accommodating and didn't let me be little
what I was doing either. You know, it's like I'm
gonna drop this baby and get back to work, and
they'd be like, no, you're not dropping nothing.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Like you're doing the lawd's work. Yes, we're in appendix today.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
So it was challenging and it was something that I
didn't even think of. I just thought the fact that
I was able to show up every day and look
how I needed to look in and know my lines
was enough. But it was another level that I hit. Okay,
I love that for you, because just like women in
the industry and being mothers are getting pregnant things like that,
like when we're in the we're in the in the
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eye of everybody, the face of it. Literally, yeah, that's me.
So your confidence already is like, Oh my god, am
I gonna it's gonna go down?
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Am I gonna be able to work?
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Are people gonna think I'm gonna be able to come
back from after having this baby you know I had?
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Are they gonna give me less? Literally? I have two?
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Yeah, my daughter is eight. So at that time, I
wasn't in my career. So when I've got my career,
when I got my career going, I'm like okay, And then.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
My son came and I was like, oh, hell no, hey,
do that what heaven? Yes, I had knew it had
been because I had That's what I was like. I
was doing all the things.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Okay, all of them.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
I was doing the things all.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Of them, so it wasn't like a but it was
like a for real right now, I should have been covered.
But you know, like when that happened, I was in
my career, so everything was really just not going and
I had to go through you know, people like, oh,
you know, she's really gonna get pregnant right now in
the peak of her career. To me hearing that, they
were so mean to me so many people like after
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doing this lead road coming after the people were like, oh, like,
nobody told me congratulations.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
For months, it was just what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
You know, they were offering me, but you still got
time to get an abortion, Like nobody was like. I
remember my friend him Mayn telling me congratulations and I
just broke down crying because I hadn't heard it. But
everybody thought that it was over for me. That's why
when I said to God, I want to go to work,
and it was like he was like, I got you.
You said the day, the day, the day because you
said that and this, but you let me see what's
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your faith that? Yeah, yeah, and even for me, people
don't know there was a huge strike.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
So the actors, Yeah, on strike.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
And what's crazy is I was at home pregnant. I
was eight and a half months pregnant when I was
supposed to go back in and film my show, and
everybody was on strike. Though every everything was on Paul,
everything was on pause. And God was like, I already
had new and I honestly my career, my my my
manager's publicist. You know. They were like, you are so
focused that we think that if you hadn't have gotten pregnant,
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you would have never taken the time to do so.
You would look up and be forty five, you might
be past child bearing years, and you may be like, dang,
I never took a time to have a baby. Yeah,
and I'm excited because he walking down next thing. You know,
he's gonna be talking next thing, you be going to
the bathroom on his own. Next day, he'll be cussing
you out. He already cursed me, like he flashes out,
does all the hand movements.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Yeah stop, yeah, no, yeah, yeah. My son is a lot.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
They just say, no, what's your son's sign? He's a virgo. Oh.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
He was supposed to be born on Beyonce's birthday and
everybody was like he came on the tenth.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Of course he was real.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Comfie, he's he's he looked, you know, he a little like, yeah,
is that what are you? I'm an aries?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Okay, I love aries. Yeah. Yeah, my son is a sagittarius.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Oh. Every everybody in my family is sad. But me,
oh bookie, Oh he's not about to.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Play with you.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
No, he's not playing nobody like no game yeah none
like yeah me nowhere when we when we get off here,
I'm gonna show a couple videos and be like this
one talking about yeah about to play with you. Okay, Yeah,
so let's get back to you. When did you start acting?
Oh my goodness. I've been acting since I was a kid.
I was in musical theater as a child. I was
always involved in playing. I played the violin, the cello.
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I was always in music, theater and dance. My mother
was a trained valleriina really really big where she was from,
so I always did ballet. You know. I was a
triple threat as a kid, and I ended up just
kind of honing in on acting as I got older.
I was in one of my first films when I
was seventeen and I've been taking it very seriously since
then for about fifteen years, and you know, had agents
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and people that stuck by me when I wasn't making
any money at all, you know, and you know, I'm like,
look at y'all stayed now in not of us. But
I've even when I served my way into this industry.
You know, I came to Atlanta, I was celebrity assistants
to Kenny Moore and Natashia Garcia. I was on love
and hip hop growing up hip hop. I was doing
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anything I needed to be just to be in the
face of I worked, did janitor all kind of stuff,
sweeping up, cleaning, acting studios, just so I could be walking.
It's so funny that I used to be sweeping and
getting water for people that now like, hey Dan, y'all,
what's your availability? You know, like, and it's just crazy
the way I know that everyone has different journeys, but
I truly truly served my way in this industry. Even
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at Tyler Perry Studios, I worked as a PA, as
a reader, you know, serving the actress.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
So when I went in, I kind of knew how
things went and it.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Was nice to kind of see that. But I've been
working for a very, very long time, and I I
took the long route, you know, being.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
A pretty girl. People are like, oh, who does she
get here? You know, it's like now she goings and talented. Yeah,
I said it. Yep, that is a thing.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
So it took me a little bit longer and in
some of the girls. But I wanted to have longevity.
I wanted to have a career that no one could
take from me. I wanted to reach things by really
really you know, going through the grit and the grind
of it. I didn't cut any corners, and there were
corners that I could have cut.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
There were times I could have snaked people or did things.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
But I really believe in integrity and that's what's going
to push you in this industry. And I'm here for
a long time. So yeah, and I respect that, you know,
because a lot of women in the industry, they're not
going to say that, Yeah, they're gonna want to cut
the corners, you know, and I'm one of those girls
who I'm literally the same thing. You know, my journey
has been a very long one. Okay. A lot of
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people may think, like, oh, she's young doing radio. There's
a lot of older people that are in radio who
do like certain day parts. But at the same time,
you know, my journey has been long gets hell yeah,
like I've been here before they gave me the bike,
you know what I'm saying literally, So so I respect
that I and I also feel like everybody's journey is
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everybody's journey, yes, and so like for people who may
be trying to get into acting now, like what advice
would you give them? I would say, you know, we
focus so much on the training. Of course, get in
some type of class, like always be working on your
craft until your craft is working you right, and even
then still keep working it. Even Denzel Washington still goes
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to acting class, Like I would say, do that part.
But for me, this industry will swallow you up whole
if you're not okay with yourself, and I mean hole
like not biting you off at your arm, snatch you
up and hold the whole by the gown heah, everything.
But I would say, make sure your spirits right and
make sure your relationship with God is right because you
always have to go back to the creators. Remember what
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he said about you, you know what I mean? And
I think a lot of times if you had a product,
you would go back to the owner's manual to remember
you know how to use it or what happens it breaks.
And so I think that really really hone in have
a relationship with God because you have to be People
say gonfident, but it's not that. It's just that you're
so you're confident on another level because you trust God
and you know who you are. But you've also done
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the work. So that's why I'm like, the work is important,
stay in class. But when you plant seeds, if you
keep water them, they're gonna sprout for sure, you know
what I mean. So I would just say, make sure
you have a good relationship with failure. Make sure you
check what your relationship with losing is because a lot
of times we don't know how to lose.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
We don't know how to get told no. And in
this industry we get told.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
No every day, but that yes on that one yes.
Every time I hear a no, I get excited because
I know I'm getting closer to the yes fact. So
I think that you have to understand what your relationship
with this, you know, with failure, we see people come
in suicide, We see people you know going on rants
on social media felm like they're not enough. So you
have got to love yourself because you're going to be
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put in spaces where it's going to constantly tell you
you're not enough, you can't do it, you don't have enough,
you don't have oceanelle bag, you ain't got this. And
it's like you got to know what's on the inside
of you. And for me, that's what pushes people in
a lot of times. People can have the right attitude
before they even have the right training or know the
right people. And it's about really really loving yourself. And
I think that self love will stop you from doing
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all those things where you, you know, do hateful things.
And I see people I think you have to. You know,
when you don't trust the process, you start acting crazy.
Like if I know my food is about to come
in ten minutes and I'm looking at the timer, I'm
not tripping, but if I don't believe that might start
cursing out the waitress. I may start, you know, asking hey, hey,
you know. But it's like when you know it's coming,
So you got to just tap into the vision that
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God has through your life and knowing that is what
it is.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Yeah, that was perfect. Are you talking to me?
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Yeah, you're talking to It's so amazing.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Thank you. But so this is a question that I
do want to know.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Like I always used to fear Hollywood because I know, well,
I don't know anything, but you know, I hear a
lot of things that's going on. How do you protect
yourself from things like that but still allowing yourself to
grow to your full potential. I'll be honest with you.
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I'm a church girl, Okay, I'm in ministry school. There
was a prophecy over my life not too long ago
that's said that the horrors and the darkness of the
industry would not be able to touch my gift. And
so I walk into a lot of rooms seeing stuff,
knowing stuff, signing up with people who I know are
into certain things. And I think it's about having discernment
and knowing how to set certain relationships certain people. I'll
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go to lunch with you, but you not come to
my house, you know what I mean. I'll text you,
I hang out, but we're not going to have a
two hour phone call, you know. So I think that
you have to know who is who, and that is
a scary part. And I talk to people a lot
about the dark sides of the industry, and people are like, no,
it's a lot of light, and it's like, girl, sometimes
you be the only light in the room. Okay, okay,
but light isn'tvaluable unless it's in darkness, right. So I
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think that you had a preach, come on, go call on.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
My life, I thought.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
But I just really feel like, you know, we we
sometimes fear and we allow something to put us in
a cage when we really got the power to put
it in a cage. You know, I'm I think nobody
is nobody is exemp I've had the enemy running rampant
in my life before.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
I have been subject to things in Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
I've been at those parties that people talking about, not
particularly your Diddy one, but with other.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
High name celebrities where I saw things happening.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
I saw people going into different rooms and you know
things and guess what, I got me a play and
left because I'm leaving with something from.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Around the way, No good, thank you.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
But I think that is the scary part is that
there are a lot of dark sides in Hollywood, and
you gotta find your tribe. When people talk about networking
across instead of up you you you need a graphic
design your homegirl? Do it? She up and coming, like,
deal with her at least you know her, at least
you know her ins and out. You know what you're
dealing with, and you know, not not selling yourself short.
Because that's why I'm talking about the self love. Because
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let me tell you something. The Lord ain't gonna put
my blessed in a blow job. Okay, so it's never
in time. I'm gonna ask God for something, and then
there's gonna be somebody who tries to offer me something
to reach.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
That, because the enemy can hear the things that you're
you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Right, So it's like I have been in prayer or
fasting for certain things, and news people that showed up
and tried to offer me just.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
The milk and the honey. Yeah, and I.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Had to know what I knew, what I knew even
when nobody knew it, even when I had men telling
me in the industry, you're stupid.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
You think you're gonna make it without doing this with me.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Yes, yes, my journey is just gonna be a little longer, bookie.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Yeah, you take me a minute, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
And guess what. Every single time I've seen those people
on the other side and they respected me. And it's
it's funny because that's that's how I always looked at
my my career as well. It's just like I wouldn't
I wouldn't talk to certain people or I wouldn't put
myself in certain situations because I'd be damn And I said, damn. Yeah,
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if anybody tell me, like, if anybody feel like that,
they gonna say I got put on because I did X,
Y and Z. So guess what, you cute and all
you got a lot of money and what just because
you're cute. But I'm not because I ain't got time
for nobody to feel like I did anything with any
of y'all.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
And the boys. Talking of the girls, I don't know
what y'all think going on. They can't wait, they can't wait.
Let them.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Know.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
I used to have m and me like, hey, do
you even date? And I'm like, yes.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
You ask all your homeboys if they dealt with me,
and you see me doing this and you see doing that,
But you know the harder way, the longer route, and
it's just it's worth it.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
I've seen a lot of.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Stuff in this industry, and I think that God.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Allowed me to see things.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
I saw people that gave themselves up, and I saw
them get smaller parts than me when I went and
worked hard for it, you know, and it's like you
did that for one line, Like it's just it's crazy.
And I think that they take advantage of that. That's
why I keep saying, love yourself, know who you are,
because they want to take advantage of the fact that
you're right out and bright eyed and bushytail and you're
happy to be here and I'm just not in that
space anymore.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Yeah, I love that for you.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
And that's some really good advice, really good advice for
me too, because I actually would want it.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
I've taken my acting.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Classes, come on down.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
I did. And you want to know who paid for them?
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Crystal Crystal and that she's incredible, this woman, this, this
is what we were. I was on her podcast the
other day keeping positive sweety for the live and we
were like, when you meet somebody they would be like, oh,
I know Crystal.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
They'd be like, she paid for me to go to college. Yeah,
I love her. Yeah, so incredible.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
I literally met her on the red carpet multiple times.
I was like doing media correspondence and every time she
see me, she always made sure she came back to
talk to me.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Wow, and we'll do an interview. And then the last
time she was like, do you want to act? And
I'm like I do. She's like, here, take my take
my information down.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
I'm like, okay, I took your information down whatever, and
she was and then she sent me over like where
she went to school. Yes, and she was like look
it up, you know, let me. She was like, look
it up and let me know what you think. So
I looked it up and I told her.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
I was like, it's nice.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
And I was like, I got a lot going on.
And then she was like, well what how much is it?
And I screenshot and I sent to her. Do you
know she sent me that money wow, and she said
go trace, go chase your dreams, jo Jo. That's literally
when she said, Oh my god. And that's why she's
so blessed. I love hearing stories like that. She is incredible. Wow.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Yeah, that's Christall Renee shout out to Chrystal Renee.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Yes, she don't even know. One time I was broke child,
I had to spend all my money, right, you know,
how Apple pay work. If the person don't cash it out,
then it'll come back to And I think I had
to do something the next day. I needed one hundred dollars.
I mean I was doing bad and I had went
to dinner with Crystal probably maybe a week prior or
something like that. Whatever. The Apple pay cat time out timing,
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and I sent her one hundred dollars towards because it
was Spencer's here. I was like, I get and I
remember it like being in that moment, like, man, I
really need one hundred dollars. And it came back to
me and I hit her up and was like, you
be helping people.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Even when you don't, even when you don't need to
know it. That's how blessed she is.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
I really it's an honor to be on the show
where she's the lead because her level of leadership is
just topped. Here. She's just top tier. Shout out to you. Yes,
so Chrystal, we're gonna get her back in the acting class.
She got a little money now, yeah I got a little,
but yeah, so I took I took the classes and
then I'm like, I was I love them.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
I love them.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Spicer sturges yes, okay, So that's where I went nice
and it was great, but I was still a little
skeptical about like basically like what I just asked, you know,
Hollywood and stuff like that. Like I just been dragging
my feed with it. But I know, like that's the
lane I want to go. The way you handle radio
and you've handled that, you handle Hollywood the same way. Yeah,
(23:34):
it's the industry as the industry. It's cooms and you know,
every albums everywhere, everywhere.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Right, We're gonna.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Y'all, y'all make sure y'all get on that social media
and tell her to go back to acting class.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
I'm trying to get on that. I'm trying to get
on that TV. That's what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
I know some people we'll talk talk Okay, So let's
the premiere Thursday, Yes, okay, and how can they get
Can they get tickets? Yes?
Speaker 2 (23:59):
I think we're gonna give away some tickets.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Yeah, so we're gonna give away two pair of tickets, yes,
v I p yes, per.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Yes, they gonna be in the building. But it is
a private events.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
That's why those tickets are so oh yeah, you can't
get you can't get it. In. If your name ain't
on the list, you can't even go, you can't even look.
But the thing is, it comes out on All Black
the same day, so everybody, we did the premiere the
same day the movie. Okay, there's a lot of times
they do it a week before, you know, we did
it the same day. That way, if you're not able
to make it, you can still watch it. We can
all share that same I love that.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Then I love that.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Okay. So before we wrap it up, are there any
shoutouts that you want to give, anything you want to say.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
At all that you've just been holding in all day.
You was with your son all day.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Like, shout out to my family, my mama, my son,
Daniel Andel, I love you so much. Shout out to
my team Brianna Pierre Down, I appreciate you guys really
making it happen for me. And shout out to God. Okay, no,
my my big, big, big guy, the big g not
the little one. And just I'm grateful, guys, shout out
to you. Shout out to you for listening, pushing through,
(24:57):
getting through the stuff you gotta get through this week
in life, because life be lifeing, but God.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Be guided and.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
So shout out to you guys, and shout out to
you Jojo. You're such a beautiful spirit. Thank you for
having me here. Sure, it's been such a pleasure. So yeah,
you heard what she said. She said not just make
sure you tap in all black? Yes, okay, And where
is that? How do they how can they access it
so they can all black as an app? So the
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streaming app a l l B l K it is.
I think you can watch it through. We're gonna be
on Prime as well. You can get it through the
main page on Amazon Prime. And actually I believe the
movie will be going to linear, so it'll be on
TV soon as well. They're just doing the streaming launch,
so I'll be able to tell you guys soon where
you can.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Catch it on your TV. If you're a.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Dinosaur and you ain't gonna stream it, we need tell
me every way we need to see it. Well, I
appreciate you coming and talking with me, sitting down and
pouring into me today. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
I told you about my day. Yeah, and you just
made my day.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
You just outside down.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
So I appreciate you girls. And you're don't come back right,
I'm coming back. We heard about you sat to day.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
All right, I'm
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Jojo Alonzo, I'm Danielle the Roach and we out
Are you doing. I'm doing good, are you I I'm
just chilling, that's what you say.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
But I am chilling.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Yet when it came in here like you was ready
to take over the show as you should, I came
up here with the badest on your little Bokay, you
better you come in.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I like to wear something with little friends to give
me a little you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
It did definitely get some pozz. Was walking in the fringes, Mama.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Said before I left. She said, now you're saying something. Okay,
but yo, Mama, she be saying a lot.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Yeah, she knows about and head. About five years ago,
I said, I would never need this. Where are you
from Louisiana? Okay, Louisiana?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
I have a couple of well I know a couple
of my homegirls like they from Louisiana.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Band rouge I know? Okay, yeah, so too cool? Cool
as hell? You be doing the little dance that WHI
ch'all be doing or that's basically gigging.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
I'm I'm you know. Born in the nineties. We was jigulators,
was gig into pieces because banners was Jiga City shout
out to the pills and that was. Okay, shout out
to you. Stop playing you know where you're from.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Yes, but for sure, Okay, y'all listen, Dan Yeller, Roach
is in the building.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Yeah, great energy, great, great energy. You got a lot
going on, Yes, a lot of major things going on.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yes, Yes, so I did. Yes, he is all the time.
And I know you.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
You have a new role. You just landed a role
in a movie that premierees on Thursday.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yes, Thursday on All Black. Yeah, let's talk about that.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Yeah, I'm playing taj it Is. This is very much
a new character for me. You know, I'm known very
well for playing Belinda on to the team of very
Loud and wild and villainous.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
And taj Is.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
You know, she's street savvy, she's escaped foster care. You know,
she was going from home to home like a lot
of things were happening, and she pretty much chose what
she knew and what she had available to her. And
I love playing characters like this because as an actress,
I never judge any character I play. So if you
read the script off top, you like this girl, this girl.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
You have to do that.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Yeah, you could have just when it worked at the
Souper Market, okay, But I realized that when you watch
the movie and you see the cars that she was dealt,
which she went through, from her relationship with her mother,
her father, her mother's in prison, Like it's just so
many things that you can see how your life could
have easily gone the way. And I look at it
like I could have easily been toads, you know, yeah,
(02:29):
and it's you know, I'm not surrounded by too many
females in the movie. I have a older cousin played
by Martin Bat's my best friend slash like love interest
is King Kiran.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
He's amazing, you know, Houston shout out to Houston.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
And we really, I think show I think that you
can see the love and the film and what I
love about it is we are criminals. Let's just be honest.
You know, we are living the less beaten path of life.
We are you know, the little thing that goes creeping in.
But I think that once people get to see our
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characters and embrace us, they will have you know, understanding
for us and just kind of see how we got there.
But it is a wild ride, and it is a
crime drama, and then it's a grare switch.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
So it's in its own genre. It switches to a
horror Yeah. I was thinking that.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
I'm like, so, okay, so the first part is the
crime drama, crime drama, and then is horror y, like
like how does that even possible? Like now like now
you ah, so.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
You catch it, don't give it over?
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Oh yeah yeah yeah, because I've seen the trailer and
now I can see where the switch come at. Yeah, okay,
I think, like, you know, I believe that Taj like
any other criminal. You know how, you think you're gonna
keep getting away with something you ain't gonna keep getting away,
and then you you venture into a new area in
unknown territory, you start barking up trees you never bark up,
and all of a sudden, now you're dealing with a
(03:55):
serious situation. And I think that there are parts of
the movie where you know it's it's gonna look like
I'm not gonna make my way out, and then honestly,
you don't know if I am. I can't even say
in my mind, you know it. The way that it
ends is it's true and a lot of things are unfortunate,
but she she eventually finds her way. I don't want
(04:16):
to give too much of a way, but it is.
It is quite a ride, and I don't think anybody
is gonna be able to say, oh, I know it's
about to happen.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
You know how you watch a movie and you know
what's gonna happen. Yeah, he's like biting my nails the
whole time.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Whole time. Them the kind of movies I like, Yes, yes,
how so how much fun did you have like filming
this like this movie and being in this role. Oh,
my gosh, having fun? I mean it was fun. I was.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
I was still breastfeeding mom at the time. So you
have an eighteenth eighteenth month old, Yeah, it's my son,
Daniel Angel I was a little boy.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
But during this film, I was, you know, a new mom,
I was postpartum, I was all these things and I
still killed it, you know, and was able to show
up every day. But it was a lot of fun,
especially now being able to leave the project.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
It's just so different.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
You know, you show up to work, you set the
tone a lot of the days. You your attitude and
your energy goes a very long way. So I was
excited to be trusted enough, you know, and respected enough
to lead such a large project, even the budget of
this film. This is one of the biggest budget projects
I've ever been a part of, you know, and it's amazing.
When the money is longer, it's longer.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I know, that's right. Shout out to you.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Off of him.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I didn't have to cut no corner Jesus. Yes, but
of course check thank you. Alian Aaron okay, Alien Aeron
call me. I need a check. We need we need
a battery in the film bag. No, So you okay?
Speaker 1 (05:44):
So you were saying that you were a new mother,
you were breastfeeding at the time and things like that.
So being a mom, a new mom and taking on
this role, so they already knew that you had just
had a baby. Yes, right, So what was that process, like,
you know, did you feel like how did you feel
coming like after you gave birth, after you came back
(06:04):
from eternity leave, Like how was your confidence coming back acting?
I'm not gonna lie, you know. I shot to the
team of first before I shot this. So I had
told God that I wanted to go back to work
three months postpartum. For me, three months postpartum would have
been December the tenth. I went back to work December eleventh,
that's my son's birthday, Like, god, stop it, Oh my
(06:28):
goodness looking, but I ain't gonna lie. I had been
in the house with a baby and I hadn't even ever,
you know, I hadn't taken any time to think about myself,
consider myself. You're just kind of in it, you know,
stands a mom, You're.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Just in it.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
And so it was a jarring to my self esteem
and my confidence on set. And I'm so grateful to
Tyler Perry because he literally not literally.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Snatched me up, but his energy.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
He took me to the side and one of my
first scenes back and I thought I was killing it,
you know what I mean, And he was just like,
you are one of the funniest people. Know you are amazing.
He was like, live in it. I need you to
live in this. I need you to live in it.
And after I got out of that scene, I finally
felt the high that you feel from when you're doing
what you're supposed to be doing. I remember having to
grab my scene partner just to ground myself because I
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felt like my feet weren't on the ground. And I,
you know, just becoming a mom, a person coming outside
of yourself. You stopped thinking about you. So I had
to find that balance of okay, confidence and when I'm
not mama when I'm on set, to be honest, you
know what I mean. It's one of my highest jobs
and highest honors. But don't nobody need my titty. Nobody
needs no gray feet on set. That's not a thing
(07:35):
that you're my talent exactly to show up. So I'm
glad for him, you know, for checking me for that.
And I'm glad I had that moment before I got
to Darwin. Yeah, so that I wasn't there trying to
lead this project and trying to figure it out. But
it was such a pivotal moment I had with Tyler,
And I'm grateful for him saying that to me because
he's all women like.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
He's like a feminist, like.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
He is all about girl powering, about you being your best,
and you know, they didn't make me feel any type
of way about getting ped. You know, I love that
they were very accommodating and didn't let me be little
what I was doing either. You know, it's like I'm
gonna drop this baby and get back to work, and
they'd be like, no, you're not dropping nothing.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Like you're doing the lawd's work. Yes, we're in appendix today.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
So it was challenging and it was something that I
didn't even think of. I just thought the fact that
I was able to show up every day and look
how I needed to look in and know my lines
was enough. But it was another level that I hit. Okay,
I love that for you, because just like women in
the industry and being mothers are getting pregnant things like that,
like when we're in the we're in the in the
(08:33):
eye of everybody, the face of it. Literally, yeah, that's me.
So your confidence already is like, Oh my god, am
I gonna it's gonna go down?
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Am I gonna be able to work?
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Are people gonna think I'm gonna be able to come
back from after having this baby you know I had?
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Are they gonna give me less? Literally? I have two?
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Yeah, my daughter is eight. So at that time, I
wasn't in my career. So when I've got my career,
when I got my career going, I'm like okay, And then.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
My son came and I was like, oh, hell no, hey,
do that what heaven? Yes, I had knew it had
been because I had That's what I was like. I
was doing all the things.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Okay, all of them.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
I was doing the things all.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Of them, so it wasn't like a but it was
like a for real right now, I should have been covered.
But you know, like when that happened, I was in
my career, so everything was really just not going and
I had to go through you know, people like, oh,
you know, she's really gonna get pregnant right now in
the peak of her career. To me hearing that, they
were so mean to me so many people like after
(09:36):
doing this lead road coming after the people were like, oh, like,
nobody told me congratulations.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
For months, it was just what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
You know, they were offering me, but you still got
time to get an abortion, Like nobody was like. I
remember my friend him Mayn telling me congratulations and I
just broke down crying because I hadn't heard it. But
everybody thought that it was over for me. That's why
when I said to God, I want to go to work,
and it was like he was like, I got you.
You said the day, the day, the day because you
said that and this, but you let me see what's
(10:05):
your faith that? Yeah, yeah, and even for me, people
don't know there was a huge strike.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
So the actors, Yeah, on strike.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
And what's crazy is I was at home pregnant. I
was eight and a half months pregnant when I was
supposed to go back in and film my show, and
everybody was on strike. Though every everything was on Paul,
everything was on pause. And God was like, I already
had new and I honestly my career, my my my
manager's publicist. You know. They were like, you are so
focused that we think that if you hadn't have gotten pregnant,
(10:32):
you would have never taken the time to do so.
You would look up and be forty five, you might
be past child bearing years, and you may be like, dang,
I never took a time to have a baby. Yeah,
and I'm excited because he walking down next thing. You know,
he's gonna be talking next thing, you be going to
the bathroom on his own. Next day, he'll be cussing
you out. He already cursed me, like he flashes out,
does all the hand movements.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Yeah stop, yeah, no, yeah, yeah. My son is a lot.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
They just say, no, what's your son's sign? He's a virgo. Oh.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
He was supposed to be born on Beyonce's birthday and
everybody was like he came on the tenth.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Of course he was real.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Comfie, he's he's he looked, you know, he a little like, yeah,
is that what are you? I'm an aries?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Okay, I love aries. Yeah. Yeah, my son is a sagittarius.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Oh. Every everybody in my family is sad. But me,
oh bookie, Oh he's not about to.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Play with you.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
No, he's not playing nobody like no game yeah none
like yeah me nowhere when we when we get off here,
I'm gonna show a couple videos and be like this
one talking about yeah about to play with you. Okay, Yeah,
so let's get back to you. When did you start acting?
Oh my goodness. I've been acting since I was a kid.
I was in musical theater as a child. I was
always involved in playing. I played the violin, the cello.
(11:45):
I was always in music, theater and dance. My mother
was a trained valleriina really really big where she was from,
so I always did ballet. You know. I was a
triple threat as a kid, and I ended up just
kind of honing in on acting as I got older.
I was in one of my first films when I
was seventeen and I've been taking it very seriously since
then for about fifteen years, and you know, had agents
(12:07):
and people that stuck by me when I wasn't making
any money at all, you know, and you know, I'm like,
look at y'all stayed now in not of us. But
I've even when I served my way into this industry.
You know, I came to Atlanta, I was celebrity assistants
to Kenny Moore and Natashia Garcia. I was on love
and hip hop growing up hip hop. I was doing
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anything I needed to be just to be in the
face of I worked, did janitor all kind of stuff,
sweeping up, cleaning, acting studios, just so I could be walking.
It's so funny that I used to be sweeping and
getting water for people that now like, hey Dan, y'all,
what's your availability? You know, like, and it's just crazy
the way I know that everyone has different journeys, but
I truly truly served my way in this industry. Even
(12:48):
at Tyler Perry Studios, I worked as a PA, as
a reader, you know, serving the actress.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
So when I went in, I kind of knew how
things went and it.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Was nice to kind of see that. But I've been
working for a very, very long time, and I I
took the long route, you know, being.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
A pretty girl. People are like, oh, who does she
get here? You know, it's like now she goings and talented. Yeah,
I said it. Yep, that is a thing.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
So it took me a little bit longer and in
some of the girls. But I wanted to have longevity.
I wanted to have a career that no one could
take from me. I wanted to reach things by really
really you know, going through the grit and the grind
of it. I didn't cut any corners, and there were
corners that I could have cut.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
There were times I could have snaked people or did things.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
But I really believe in integrity and that's what's going
to push you in this industry. And I'm here for
a long time. So yeah, and I respect that, you know,
because a lot of women in the industry, they're not
going to say that, Yeah, they're gonna want to cut
the corners, you know, and I'm one of those girls
who I'm literally the same thing. You know, my journey
has been a very long one. Okay. A lot of
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people may think, like, oh, she's young doing radio. There's
a lot of older people that are in radio who
do like certain day parts. But at the same time,
you know, my journey has been long gets hell yeah,
like I've been here before they gave me the bike,
you know what I'm saying literally, So so I respect
that I and I also feel like everybody's journey is
(14:10):
everybody's journey, yes, and so like for people who may
be trying to get into acting now, like what advice
would you give them? I would say, you know, we
focus so much on the training. Of course, get in
some type of class, like always be working on your
craft until your craft is working you right, and even
then still keep working it. Even Denzel Washington still goes
(14:31):
to acting class, Like I would say, do that part.
But for me, this industry will swallow you up whole
if you're not okay with yourself, and I mean hole
like not biting you off at your arm, snatch you
up and hold the whole by the gown heah, everything.
But I would say, make sure your spirits right and
make sure your relationship with God is right because you
always have to go back to the creators. Remember what
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he said about you, you know what I mean? And
I think a lot of times if you had a product,
you would go back to the owner's manual to remember
you know how to use it or what happens it breaks.
And so I think that really really hone in have
a relationship with God because you have to be People
say gonfident, but it's not that. It's just that you're
so you're confident on another level because you trust God
and you know who you are. But you've also done
(15:13):
the work. So that's why I'm like, the work is important,
stay in class. But when you plant seeds, if you
keep water them, they're gonna sprout for sure, you know
what I mean. So I would just say, make sure
you have a good relationship with failure. Make sure you
check what your relationship with losing is because a lot
of times we don't know how to lose.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
We don't know how to get told no. And in
this industry we get told.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
No every day, but that yes on that one yes.
Every time I hear a no, I get excited because
I know I'm getting closer to the yes fact. So
I think that you have to understand what your relationship
with this, you know, with failure, we see people come
in suicide, We see people you know going on rants
on social media felm like they're not enough. So you
have got to love yourself because you're going to be
(15:51):
put in spaces where it's going to constantly tell you
you're not enough, you can't do it, you don't have enough,
you don't have oceanelle bag, you ain't got this. And
it's like you got to know what's on the inside
of you. And for me, that's what pushes people in
a lot of times. People can have the right attitude
before they even have the right training or know the
right people. And it's about really really loving yourself. And
I think that self love will stop you from doing
(16:12):
all those things where you, you know, do hateful things.
And I see people I think you have to. You know,
when you don't trust the process, you start acting crazy.
Like if I know my food is about to come
in ten minutes and I'm looking at the timer, I'm
not tripping, but if I don't believe that might start
cursing out the waitress. I may start, you know, asking hey, hey,
you know. But it's like when you know it's coming,
So you got to just tap into the vision that
(16:32):
God has through your life and knowing that is what
it is.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Yeah, that was perfect. Are you talking to me?
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Yeah, you're talking to It's so amazing.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Thank you. But so this is a question that I
do want to know.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Like I always used to fear Hollywood because I know, well,
I don't know anything, but you know, I hear a
lot of things that's going on. How do you protect
yourself from things like that but still allowing yourself to
grow to your full potential. I'll be honest with you.
(17:12):
I'm a church girl, Okay, I'm in ministry school. There
was a prophecy over my life not too long ago
that's said that the horrors and the darkness of the
industry would not be able to touch my gift. And
so I walk into a lot of rooms seeing stuff,
knowing stuff, signing up with people who I know are
into certain things. And I think it's about having discernment
and knowing how to set certain relationships certain people. I'll
(17:33):
go to lunch with you, but you not come to
my house, you know what I mean. I'll text you,
I hang out, but we're not going to have a
two hour phone call, you know. So I think that
you have to know who is who, and that is
a scary part. And I talk to people a lot
about the dark sides of the industry, and people are like, no,
it's a lot of light, and it's like, girl, sometimes
you be the only light in the room. Okay, okay,
but light isn'tvaluable unless it's in darkness, right. So I
(17:54):
think that you had a preach, come on, go call on.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
My life, I thought.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
But I just really feel like, you know, we we
sometimes fear and we allow something to put us in
a cage when we really got the power to put
it in a cage. You know, I'm I think nobody
is nobody is exemp I've had the enemy running rampant
in my life before.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
I have been subject to things in Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
I've been at those parties that people talking about, not
particularly your Diddy one, but with other.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
High name celebrities where I saw things happening.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
I saw people going into different rooms and you know
things and guess what, I got me a play and
left because I'm leaving with something from.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Around the way, No good, thank you.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
But I think that is the scary part is that
there are a lot of dark sides in Hollywood, and
you gotta find your tribe. When people talk about networking
across instead of up you you you need a graphic
design your homegirl? Do it? She up and coming, like,
deal with her at least you know her, at least
you know her ins and out. You know what you're
dealing with, and you know, not not selling yourself short.
Because that's why I'm talking about the self love. Because
(19:02):
let me tell you something. The Lord ain't gonna put
my blessed in a blow job. Okay, so it's never
in time. I'm gonna ask God for something, and then
there's gonna be somebody who tries to offer me something
to reach.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
That, because the enemy can hear the things that you're
you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Right, So it's like I have been in prayer or
fasting for certain things, and news people that showed up
and tried to offer me just.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
The milk and the honey. Yeah, and I.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Had to know what I knew, what I knew even
when nobody knew it, even when I had men telling
me in the industry, you're stupid.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
You think you're gonna make it without doing this with me.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Yes, yes, my journey is just gonna be a little longer, bookie.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Yeah, you take me a minute, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
And guess what. Every single time I've seen those people
on the other side and they respected me. And it's
it's funny because that's that's how I always looked at
my my career as well. It's just like I wouldn't
I wouldn't talk to certain people or I wouldn't put
myself in certain situations because I'd be damn And I said, damn. Yeah,
(20:00):
if anybody tell me, like, if anybody feel like that,
they gonna say I got put on because I did X,
Y and Z. So guess what, you cute and all
you got a lot of money and what just because
you're cute. But I'm not because I ain't got time
for nobody to feel like I did anything with any
of y'all.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
And the boys. Talking of the girls, I don't know
what y'all think going on. They can't wait, they can't wait.
Let them.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Know.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
I used to have m and me like, hey, do
you even date? And I'm like, yes.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
You ask all your homeboys if they dealt with me,
and you see me doing this and you see doing that,
But you know the harder way, the longer route, and
it's just it's worth it.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
I've seen a lot of.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Stuff in this industry, and I think that God.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Allowed me to see things.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
I saw people that gave themselves up, and I saw
them get smaller parts than me when I went and
worked hard for it, you know, and it's like you
did that for one line, Like it's just it's crazy.
And I think that they take advantage of that. That's
why I keep saying, love yourself, know who you are,
because they want to take advantage of the fact that
you're right out and bright eyed and bushytail and you're
happy to be here and I'm just not in that
space anymore.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Yeah, I love that for you.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
And that's some really good advice, really good advice for
me too, because I actually would want it.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
I've taken my acting.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Classes, come on down.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
I did. And you want to know who paid for them?
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Crystal Crystal and that she's incredible, this woman, this, this
is what we were. I was on her podcast the
other day keeping positive sweety for the live and we
were like, when you meet somebody they would be like, oh,
I know Crystal.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
They'd be like, she paid for me to go to college. Yeah,
I love her. Yeah, so incredible.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
I literally met her on the red carpet multiple times.
I was like doing media correspondence and every time she
see me, she always made sure she came back to
talk to me.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Wow, and we'll do an interview. And then the last
time she was like, do you want to act? And
I'm like I do. She's like, here, take my take
my information down.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
I'm like, okay, I took your information down whatever, and
she was and then she sent me over like where
she went to school. Yes, and she was like look
it up, you know, let me. She was like, look
it up and let me know what you think. So
I looked it up and I told her.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
I was like, it's nice.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
And I was like, I got a lot going on.
And then she was like, well what how much is it?
And I screenshot and I sent to her. Do you
know she sent me that money wow, and she said
go trace, go chase your dreams, jo Jo. That's literally
when she said, Oh my god. And that's why she's
so blessed. I love hearing stories like that. She is incredible. Wow.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Yeah, that's Christall Renee shout out to Chrystal Renee.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Yes, she don't even know. One time I was broke child,
I had to spend all my money, right, you know,
how Apple pay work. If the person don't cash it out,
then it'll come back to And I think I had
to do something the next day. I needed one hundred dollars.
I mean I was doing bad and I had went
to dinner with Crystal probably maybe a week prior or
something like that. Whatever. The Apple pay cat time out timing,
(22:37):
and I sent her one hundred dollars towards because it
was Spencer's here. I was like, I get and I
remember it like being in that moment, like, man, I
really need one hundred dollars. And it came back to
me and I hit her up and was like, you
be helping people.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Even when you don't, even when you don't need to
know it. That's how blessed she is.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
I really it's an honor to be on the show
where she's the lead because her level of leadership is
just topped. Here. She's just top tier. Shout out to you. Yes,
so Chrystal, we're gonna get her back in the acting class.
She got a little money now, yeah I got a little,
but yeah, so I took I took the classes and
then I'm like, I was I love them.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
I love them.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Spicer sturges yes, okay, So that's where I went nice
and it was great, but I was still a little
skeptical about like basically like what I just asked, you know,
Hollywood and stuff like that. Like I just been dragging
my feed with it. But I know, like that's the
lane I want to go. The way you handle radio
and you've handled that, you handle Hollywood the same way. Yeah,
(23:34):
it's the industry as the industry. It's cooms and you know,
every albums everywhere, everywhere.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Right, We're gonna.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Y'all, y'all make sure y'all get on that social media
and tell her to go back to acting class.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
I'm trying to get on that. I'm trying to get
on that TV. That's what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
I know some people we'll talk talk Okay, So let's
the premiere Thursday, Yes, okay, and how can they get
Can they get tickets? Yes?
Speaker 2 (23:59):
I think we're gonna give away some tickets.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Yeah, so we're gonna give away two pair of tickets, yes,
v I p yes, per.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Yes, they gonna be in the building. But it is
a private events.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
That's why those tickets are so oh yeah, you can't
get you can't get it. In. If your name ain't
on the list, you can't even go, you can't even look.
But the thing is, it comes out on All Black
the same day, so everybody, we did the premiere the
same day the movie. Okay, there's a lot of times
they do it a week before, you know, we did
it the same day. That way, if you're not able
to make it, you can still watch it. We can
all share that same I love that.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Then I love that.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Okay. So before we wrap it up, are there any
shoutouts that you want to give, anything you want to say.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
At all that you've just been holding in all day.
You was with your son all day.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Like, shout out to my family, my mama, my son,
Daniel Andel, I love you so much. Shout out to
my team Brianna Pierre Down, I appreciate you guys really
making it happen for me. And shout out to God. Okay, no,
my my big, big, big guy, the big g not
the little one. And just I'm grateful, guys, shout out
to you. Shout out to you for listening, pushing through,
(24:57):
getting through the stuff you gotta get through this week
in life, because life be lifeing, but God.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Be guided and.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
So shout out to you guys, and shout out to
you Jojo. You're such a beautiful spirit. Thank you for
having me here. Sure, it's been such a pleasure. So yeah,
you heard what she said. She said not just make
sure you tap in all black? Yes, okay, And where
is that? How do they how can they access it
so they can all black as an app? So the
(25:24):
streaming app a l l B l K it is.
I think you can watch it through. We're gonna be
on Prime as well. You can get it through the
main page on Amazon Prime. And actually I believe the
movie will be going to linear, so it'll be on
TV soon as well. They're just doing the streaming launch,
so I'll be able to tell you guys soon where
you can.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Catch it on your TV. If you're a.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Dinosaur and you ain't gonna stream it, we need tell
me every way we need to see it. Well, I
appreciate you coming and talking with me, sitting down and
pouring into me today. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
I told you about my day. Yeah, and you just
made my day.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
You just outside down.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
So I appreciate you girls. And you're don't come back right,
I'm coming back. We heard about you sat to day.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
All right, I'm
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Jojo Alonzo, I'm Danielle the Roach and we out
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