September 30, 2025 • 22 mins
A modern day twist of the biblical story about Ruth and Boaz starring Serayah McNeill and Tyler Lepley has reached number 1 on netflix. The two stop by the studio to talk "Ruth and Boaz", engaments, working with Netflix, Tyler Perry and DeVon Franklin and so much more.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Once of guys is a girl.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Alexandria Acimoni in the studio with so Reya and Tyler Leplie.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
How are you guys today?
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Doing good?
Speaker 1 (00:09):
I'm doing well, feeling great, happy you guys?
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Have you have you guys?
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Excuse me and studio to talk about the new movie
that we have. Yes, absolutely, absolutely, let's talk about it.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
We have a new movie called Ruth and Boaz, modern
take on the Biblical story. But I want to hear
it from your perspective. Tell me more about the movie
and what people can expect when watching.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Well, it's a adaptation of the Ruth and Boast story
in the Bible, so there's a lot of similarities there
with the story as far as like the storyline and
kind of how it plays out. But it's a twenty
twenty five love story. It encompasses community love, black love.
(00:52):
I like to make sure that I say, and I
think most of all, just like family, that family. You've
said this, Tyler has said this throughout the press run,
and I think that's so spot on. Is the familiar
aspect to the movie that you'll feel and I think
those are some of the main takeaways.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Yeah, Tyler, hed anything else WoT out of that and music.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
Yeah, yeah, it actually used to be called when we
first started it, it was titled R and B. Right, So yeah,
there's a there's a music aspect to it, but it's
it's outside of everything, you know. Even to piggyback off
of what she said, you know, when we actually get
into you know, who Ruth and bo As are, they're
really just two individuals that are that are focused on,
(01:39):
you know, stepping into their own path, serving God in
their own way. And when they're focused on the right things,
you know, God on God unfolds them to each other
and it ends up, you know, just unfolding to a
beautiful love story.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
How would you guys describe your characters though, you know,
for people who are who haven't obviously haven't seen it yet,
how would you describe the character that you play?
Speaker 4 (02:01):
I would say Ruth Mobiley is a very I would
say she is a headstrong person. I think that she
is very determined, also super I would say confident, because
(02:23):
she follows her own gut instinct, not knowing what's going
to happen next. I mean, and these are decisions in
life she has. Over here on the right hand, she
has a six figure deal that she can say yes too.
And then over here on the left hand, she can
kind of just step out on faith and start a
whole new life. And she chooses that path is to
start a whole new life with nothing, to go out
(02:44):
on the grounds and get it, find a job, do
all these things. So I think that takes a lot
of confidence in oneself to do so. And not only that,
she's she is a a I don't say entertainer, but
she definitely loves music and uh, definitely super Yeah, she's
(03:05):
an entertainer. And I would say like there's something sweet
about her. Although she has this hard show, there's something
like super sweet about her inside. So yeah, you'll see
that kind of play out in the movie.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
Yeah, that's one thing I love about you know, Ruth's
arc in the beginning, she leaves everything she's ever known
to you know, chase something that she feels, you know,
in the area of the unknown, which is which is
pretty scary to do in real life.
Speaker 6 (03:30):
You know.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
I think for bo As is similar to Ruth and
the fact that he's also very determined. We were just
talking about some of the you know, at the end
of the day, they have to make it. They have
to make the film. You know, film can't be three
hours long. So we're talking about a few of the
scenes that we saw that were deleted, but like a
few of them, I mean it's it's still in the
film as well, but uh, you know, one of them
(03:53):
really showcased just how determined bo As is and trying
to I mean, even without that scene, he's trying to
really honor this I forget what it is. What's the
what's the wine called? I forget what it's called. Yeah,
the ass it's his most recent wine that he's been
working with.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
He started with his father. His father since passed, and
now he's steadfast on, you know, winning an award but
also bringing you know, just bringing the intention and the
love and the notoriety to his family's name Bye by
bringing this this wine to I don't know what was it,
some type of it was some type of competition the
(04:33):
ad anyway, he ended up winning it, But he's just
very determined what he and what it is that he
wants to do.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Yeah, for sure, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
So tell me more about why you guys thought these
were great fits for you guys to play these characters.
Why did you guys decide to take on this role.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
For me, I have done roles with music and inside
of the you know, in the project started off doing
Empire and then like kind of like snow, all of
these different roles I kind of like have music inside
of it. So that part felt super familiar. Another part
another reason why I wanted to do the film. Honestly,
(05:11):
I wanted to step away from doing music and film
because I make my own music.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
I am an artist in real life.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
But I was like, you, guys know, I don't want
to do music anymore. And Devon's like, but look it's different,
and I'm telling you like this role. And so I
read the scripts and I loved it. It's a love story.
It's just a great movie too. It feels needed and
wholesome and all those things. So that's what definitely drew
me to the project for sure.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
I love that Tyler.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
Yeah, I think a few things.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
First, I've always I've always wanted to be a part
of Netflix in any way that I could be right.
Working with Sorey is always is always fun, She's always
bringing something new to it. I've I've followed Devon Franklin
for a while, so you know, any any chance I
can get, any chance I get to work with Tyler
Perry again, I'm always going I'm always going to do that.
(06:01):
So those were a few of the things initially that
attracted me to it. But then once I got into
the script, I just really liked how bo As had this,
uh he just had this like this contrast to him.
On one hand, in order to uh bring that to
fruition everything I was talking about him being determined to
do it takes a certain like a rigidity they kind
(06:26):
of like be rigid in and kind of black and
white to in order to do that.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
But then on the flip.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
Side, you know, you got to be fluid enough to
serve in ways that you don't know how it's going
to benefit you. So I feel like, uh, you know
that juxtaposition or that you know that yin yang, that
contrast is something that also really attracted me to the
role of Boas.
Speaker 6 (06:46):
Uh you know, by itself, for sure, I love that.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
And you were talking about, you know, as an as
an artist, you weren't sure if.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
This was the right fit for you.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
What do you think, like was I guess, how are
you challenged in this role? She since you weren't sure
if you wanted to take this on per Se. Both
of you, guys, how are you challenged by taking on
this role?
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Well, well, let me rephrase that. I think that that
is a personal thing for me.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Was to.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
You know, have roles that challenged me in different ways
that don't have the music per Se makes us. I
want to make sure that I'm also, like, you know,
just being able to experience different characters.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Right.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
But there's something special about Ruth Mobley and this film
in particular, and I love that Tyler said it. First
of all, it's my first Tyler Perry film. Let me
just say that. Devon Franklin I love and I worked
with before on Kingdom Business and BT. Plus, I think
this felt it felt different because one, I got to
(07:54):
work with Babyface Hello. But more than that, the music
was a little different than I'm used to. It has
like this country kind of feel to it, and I've
never sang that like on record, and so when I
was doing that, I found something a spark that was
new for me and was like that country vibe and
it brought something different in my voice than I've ever
(08:16):
heard before. And even I remember on set one of
the actors. I forget which one it was. When when
we were playing the song back to back for the scene,
they were like, wait, this is you singing.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
I'm like yeah, and he's like, wow, you really.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Sound good on like this country vibe and I'm like, really,
thank you appreciate that. And I agree, is it country
or even gospel, it brings something else. It brings a
different vibration to the room. And so that was something
that super like was super different, but it was a
great nuance that, you know, I was excited to play
(08:51):
yeah entirely.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
I mean, you've been in a wide range of roles
as well, So how was this a.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Challenge for you?
Speaker 1 (08:56):
If it was, you know, like, did you learn anything
from it in any way?
Speaker 3 (09:01):
What are your thoughts?
Speaker 5 (09:01):
I think every you know, every role kind of presents
its own challenge for sure. I think for me, I've
never done a love like a true love story. I
think the closest I've I've been to it is Harlem,
But that's like a rom common is a comedic access
to aspect to it. So I think one challenge for
me is, you know, trying to trying to find like
(09:23):
like passion without being angry and nothing I'm an angry person, right,
but like I'm I'm an aries, I'm a fire sign.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
I fight for what it is that I want.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
So, uh, you know with this, uh you know Boaz
is really he's he's for sure, you know you see him.
Speaker 6 (09:39):
I don't know what. I don't think.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
Maybe Leo, So I think there was there was much
more of a calm aspect. So to find myself within
a calmness was was a challenge that you know, I
was up for and it was a lot of fun
trying to figure.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
It out perfect perfect Now working with Devon Franklin, Tyler
Perry and even under Netflix, how was that for you guys?
Like did you like the lessons learned or growth? I
mean talking more about the powerhouse that you guys had
behind you guys.
Speaker 6 (10:11):
Netflix, Tyler Perry, no pressure.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
I remember like pre production, the prep. I would say,
I've never done prep like that before, and I was like, okay,
welcome to the big leagues. Like driving like I said,
it's my first time working with Tyler Perry, working on
the studio here in Atlanta, and driving just on to
the Tyler Perry studio a lot, I was like hello, yeah, hi, yeah,
(10:38):
oh my God.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
I got a badge. I got a little key car.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
But other than that, honestly, I remember us sharing this
moment that just it was so vivid it came to
my mind. It was one of the pre prep weeks
or whatever, and we're doing like lighting tests and they
have us kind of like in front of the camera
basically just camera testing, not shooting anything, no lines, no nothing,
just hair and makeup. Let's let's, you know, shoot for
(11:08):
lighting to see what lighting they wanted for the movie.
And I remember me and Tyler like just standing. They're
like okay and I look at each other. Now look away.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
I look back at each other and.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
They're like doing whatever with the different hues and lighting
and things like that. And I was like, wow, this
is serious and Tyler was like, oh yeah, and I'm
just like I remember thinking, like I've never gone through
this type of prep.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
It just it just felt bigger.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
It felt it felt more serious, and details were intricate,
and I remember that being kind of like the foundation
for where we were about to go. And even now
the press, I'm like, well, hello press, you know Netflix,
Netflix employee.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
There's a lot of a lot of attention to detail
because even everything she mentioned it was you know, it
was a full it was a full production day. You
know that all the cameras, they're all, you know, fifty
people there just to take pictures.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
So you saw how much Netflix and Tyler Perry Studios
and uh, you know, with with uh Divine's input, how
much they were pouring into this. You know, so it
really raised the bar for us to be. And of
course we're professional, we're going to we're going to step
in and do our thing, but it really kind of
puts you, you know, put you there when you see
Mike Jordan Steff on the on the floor, we're supposed
to be here.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Yeah, it's so good.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
Yeah, because we take our craft that serious too.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
So it feels good to be you know, in the company.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Absolutely absolutely, we love that. We can't wait to see
the movie. But of course before we get out of here,
we got to get a little personal, just a little bit.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
I see the ring.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
I see the ring.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
It's gorgeous. How can we talk about the engagement a
little bit?
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (12:54):
I mean it's you know, the ring is it's it's
definitely a symbol of big love. But I think what's
more important for the ladies, it's not the ring's it
is the it's the foundation that you're setting.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
It's it's what do you want?
Speaker 4 (13:10):
And I think that that's the more important thing nowadays,
because don't get me wrong, like I feel like all
the girls want the ring because of what it symbolizes.
But I think we shouldn't lose what it's symbolizing, right.
It's it's love, it's it's commitment, it's setting a foundation
of family. And for me and my fiance, it's we're
(13:32):
big on just like we're big on black family, like
and so it's like, what what does that mean to us?
And in carrying that lineage out, it's big for big
for us, big for me. Anyways, I don't want to
speak for him, he's not here, but but it's big
for me. And I think it's really important to note
(13:53):
that nothing is perfect just because you see this ring here, Okay,
nothing's perfect, and everyone has their journey in love and
you can't count the years or the the oh because
I have girlfriends right obviously, and it's always like, well,
how long they've been together? How long? You know, And
(14:13):
you'll start to feel insecurities if you feel like, oh, well,
this happened for this person, you know, don't. Yeah, it's
like I want to I just want to go on
record and just be like, you know, it's not about comparison.
It's not about goals.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
You know what I mean, couple goals.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Like we all go through the same ship, you know what.
I'm sorry, we all go the same ship. And I
think it's just really important to consider your partner, know
what you want, and to have patience and grace and
and those things are really really important. But yes, so exciting, Yes, absolutely, well.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Congratulations and Tyler of course you miracle.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Wh how's everything with you?
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Guys?
Speaker 5 (14:51):
There were just you know, just just planning, planning the
wedding right now, and I'm learning, I'm learning, you know,
through my experience that y'all change your mind little bit.
So it was like, you know, at first, we want
to do something real big. She has a huge family,
I think even for even for our baby shower, we
(15:12):
did it down to Houston where she's from, and there
was like three hundred people. They're all real family members,
you know what I mean. So it was like at
first she wanted to do something big like that, and
then and then she you know, pulled A one eighty
and then she wanted to just Elope, just me and
her and do something real intimate, and we kind of
settled on the middle ground, do something like like forty
(15:32):
five fifty people, a little more intimate, but a destination wedding,
which we're going to do it in Cabo in Mexico.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
That's going to be nice.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
Yeah, we love we love Mexico. I mean that's that's
how we're.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Doing it, right, yeah, right now, right, I love that.
Do we probably know around Whinberg next summer.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
Yeah, it's towards the end of the summer, so yeah,
she got another she got another week or so before
you know, all the yeah, all the all the down
payments go out, so they get out next lettle seven
ten days.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
I was like, listen, I just dropped the baby. I'm like,
I need a little second.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
Yeah, yeah, it takes it takes a minute.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
I think there should be no kind of like what
you were saying to everybody has such a you know,
just such a judgment.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
Of what you should do.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
I think you should we should all give ourselves, our
partners grace and enough time to figure out what what
you want to day.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
I mean even that like as soon as we got engaged.
When's the literally like y'all please.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
Sleep?
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Yeah, you know, no, but it's it's definitely it's it's
definitely amazing.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
It's a blessing.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Yeah, congratulations, thank you, Yes again to congratulations.
Speaker 6 (16:40):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Congratulations to you both there absolutely so you guys obviously
work on other projects as well.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
First for you, Tyler, because I'm a peak balley stand.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
What's going on.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
It's the only way we uh we We finished it
last We finished it last year. Towards the end of
the year. I was filming. I was filming this and
that at the same time. And really, really hats off
to both of them, really hats off to both of
them because there was a there was for a for
a period of time.
Speaker 6 (17:09):
After I booked it.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
They weren't able to figure the schedule out, you know,
in the first position, so like for for a minute,
for a couple of days, like me and Devna were
on the phone like, man, I guess I catch you
on the next one. But they were able to work
it out, you know, KATORI had you know, and really the.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
What are they? What are they? What are the are
their titles?
Speaker 5 (17:28):
It's a it's a script not a script manager, no, no,
but the I think it's a line producer. Line producer
are the ones that figure the schedules out. The line
producers couldn't make it happen. So like the actually went
above KATORI had to pick up the phone and get
on the divine and they and they made it happen,
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
So shouts out to both of them.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
But he was.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Working okay, and there's so there's such a different character.
Speaker 6 (17:55):
Yeah, yeah, but we finished it up.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
We finished it last year, and I know that they
had just wrapped up the post production on it. So
it's like it's officially in the can. I just got
to wait to see see when they want to bring
it out.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Is coming on all right, because I'm ready to talk
to somebody at this point. So right now, you obviously
have a lot going on as well. What else are
you working on? Are we working on music to or
what's so?
Speaker 4 (18:18):
I actually just dropped a record called PDSO and I
am working on putting out the rest of my music
hopefully in the next month or two. So very exciting stuff.
I'm excited about this music. I'm excited about I have
a couple projects on the upcoming as well. So I'm
(18:39):
working on actually producing. I'm actually producing a non scripted show.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
I told you about this actually when we were shooting.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
This show so funny because it's about food and wine
and Ruth and Boaz made me think about it when
we were shooting and I showed him the sizzle. But
it's with my really good friend Brittany wyn Bush. She
is the girl it's called where It's called WTF. I'm sorry,
wya Brittany. So it's like where you at Brittany, And
(19:14):
she is just that girl in New York.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
She's in the city and she knows where.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
To go, where to be, who to talk to, what
wine to try, what dishes to have. And it's a
really cool show that we are producing and I'm really
looking forward to getting that going now. We have just
confirmed that it's going to be on key TV, So shout.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Out to my girl Keiky Palmer on YouTube.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
And so we're doing these ten minute segments and we're
looking to start production very soon. But that's it's so
cool to be like behind the camera also on just
to be in a creative mode. And then there's some
other films that are like coming up and talk, so
we'll see what happens.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
That's exciting.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
I can't wait to see all that come together. And Tyler,
I know we talked about Pea Valley and of course
this movie. Are you taking a break or do you
have anything else you are wanting to focus on in
the short or near future?
Speaker 6 (20:06):
No, ain't no rest for the weird.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
Uh So we also have a film called Goon's coming
out Sorey and Myself.
Speaker 6 (20:15):
Huh is that coming on?
Speaker 5 (20:17):
I was, I was, Yeah, I was talking to him.
He was they were getting the last time I spoke
to him, they were getting a distribution.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Amazing for sure.
Speaker 5 (20:25):
So that'll that'll be coming out with sore and Myself
as well, Michael Raney Junior, a bunch of lot of
other dope, dope actress, p Valley still on the way.
Oh no, yeah, Harlem came out. Okay, that was earlier.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Restaurant.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
Oh yeah, you got a restaurant downtown. But that keeps
me pretty busy, which is so you know what something
like a restaurant you can't you can't pick up a
brochure and learn you know what I'm saying. It's there's
there's an aspect that that you can only get from
the experience. Yeah, so you know I've had I've had
to learn that from my own experience. Lots of ups
and downs. But then once you get it, you know,
I corrected the ship. Now now it's running smooth. So
(21:04):
it was a learning process.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
Cool. I'm down in Tampa.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Yeah, in Tampa.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Hopefully we get more locations, so for sure it'll be nice.
All right, last question for the both of you guys.
Holidays are coming up.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
What's the planesh, so many conversations to have down there.
My family is like, you know, all over and then
we you know, now, it's just I don't.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Know, It's fine. We're taking it day by day.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
We're taking it day by day. We have a lot
of things going on. It seems like before member.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Yeah, I am like, yeah, yeah, I'm that girl. I
am too, So I gonna decorate you should as you should.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Well, any last words you want to leave with the
people before we get out of here.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Make sure you see Ruth and Boaz on Netflix comes
out on September twenty sixth, and we are so excited.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
For this, and please let us know what you think.
Have watched parties, Yes, have watch parties?
Speaker 5 (22:05):
Right, Yeah, this is one of those movies that you know,
it's exciting enough to watch by yourself. You just you know,
want to cut something off, but this is really something
that you can watch with the whole family, you know
what I'm saying, with the boys or girls. Yeah, it's
one of those. It's one of those movies.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Thank you both for coming into the studio today.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Thank you
Once of guys is a girl.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Alexandria Acimoni in the studio with so Reya and Tyler Leplie.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
How are you guys today?
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Doing good?
Speaker 1 (00:09):
I'm doing well, feeling great, happy you guys?
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Have you have you guys?
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Excuse me and studio to talk about the new movie
that we have. Yes, absolutely, absolutely, let's talk about it.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
We have a new movie called Ruth and Boaz, modern
take on the Biblical story. But I want to hear
it from your perspective. Tell me more about the movie
and what people can expect when watching.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Well, it's a adaptation of the Ruth and Boast story
in the Bible, so there's a lot of similarities there
with the story as far as like the storyline and
kind of how it plays out. But it's a twenty
twenty five love story. It encompasses community love, black love.
(00:52):
I like to make sure that I say, and I
think most of all, just like family, that family. You've
said this, Tyler has said this throughout the press run,
and I think that's so spot on. Is the familiar
aspect to the movie that you'll feel and I think
those are some of the main takeaways.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Yeah, Tyler, hed anything else WoT out of that and music.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
Yeah, yeah, it actually used to be called when we
first started it, it was titled R and B. Right, So yeah,
there's a there's a music aspect to it, but it's
it's outside of everything, you know. Even to piggyback off
of what she said, you know, when we actually get
into you know, who Ruth and bo As are, they're
really just two individuals that are that are focused on,
(01:39):
you know, stepping into their own path, serving God in
their own way. And when they're focused on the right things,
you know, God on God unfolds them to each other
and it ends up, you know, just unfolding to a
beautiful love story.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
How would you guys describe your characters though, you know,
for people who are who haven't obviously haven't seen it yet,
how would you describe the character that you play?
Speaker 4 (02:01):
I would say Ruth Mobiley is a very I would
say she is a headstrong person. I think that she
is very determined, also super I would say confident, because
(02:23):
she follows her own gut instinct, not knowing what's going
to happen next. I mean, and these are decisions in
life she has. Over here on the right hand, she
has a six figure deal that she can say yes too.
And then over here on the left hand, she can
kind of just step out on faith and start a
whole new life. And she chooses that path is to
start a whole new life with nothing, to go out
(02:44):
on the grounds and get it, find a job, do
all these things. So I think that takes a lot
of confidence in oneself to do so. And not only that,
she's she is a a I don't say entertainer, but
she definitely loves music and uh, definitely super Yeah, she's
(03:05):
an entertainer. And I would say like there's something sweet
about her. Although she has this hard show, there's something
like super sweet about her inside. So yeah, you'll see
that kind of play out in the movie.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
Yeah, that's one thing I love about you know, Ruth's
arc in the beginning, she leaves everything she's ever known
to you know, chase something that she feels, you know,
in the area of the unknown, which is which is
pretty scary to do in real life.
Speaker 6 (03:30):
You know.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
I think for bo As is similar to Ruth and
the fact that he's also very determined. We were just
talking about some of the you know, at the end
of the day, they have to make it. They have
to make the film. You know, film can't be three
hours long. So we're talking about a few of the
scenes that we saw that were deleted, but like a
few of them, I mean it's it's still in the
film as well, but uh, you know, one of them
(03:53):
really showcased just how determined bo As is and trying
to I mean, even without that scene, he's trying to
really honor this I forget what it is. What's the
what's the wine called? I forget what it's called. Yeah,
the ass it's his most recent wine that he's been
working with.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
He started with his father. His father since passed, and
now he's steadfast on, you know, winning an award but
also bringing you know, just bringing the intention and the
love and the notoriety to his family's name Bye by
bringing this this wine to I don't know what was it,
some type of it was some type of competition the
(04:33):
ad anyway, he ended up winning it, But he's just
very determined what he and what it is that he
wants to do.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Yeah, for sure, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
So tell me more about why you guys thought these
were great fits for you guys to play these characters.
Why did you guys decide to take on this role.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
For me, I have done roles with music and inside
of the you know, in the project started off doing
Empire and then like kind of like snow, all of
these different roles I kind of like have music inside
of it. So that part felt super familiar. Another part
another reason why I wanted to do the film. Honestly,
(05:11):
I wanted to step away from doing music and film
because I make my own music.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
I am an artist in real life.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
But I was like, you, guys know, I don't want
to do music anymore. And Devon's like, but look it's different,
and I'm telling you like this role. And so I
read the scripts and I loved it. It's a love story.
It's just a great movie too. It feels needed and
wholesome and all those things. So that's what definitely drew
me to the project for sure.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
I love that Tyler.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
Yeah, I think a few things.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
First, I've always I've always wanted to be a part
of Netflix in any way that I could be right.
Working with Sorey is always is always fun, She's always
bringing something new to it. I've I've followed Devon Franklin
for a while, so you know, any any chance I
can get, any chance I get to work with Tyler
Perry again, I'm always going I'm always going to do that.
(06:01):
So those were a few of the things initially that
attracted me to it. But then once I got into
the script, I just really liked how bo As had this,
uh he just had this like this contrast to him.
On one hand, in order to uh bring that to
fruition everything I was talking about him being determined to
do it takes a certain like a rigidity they kind
(06:26):
of like be rigid in and kind of black and
white to in order to do that.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
But then on the flip.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
Side, you know, you got to be fluid enough to
serve in ways that you don't know how it's going
to benefit you. So I feel like, uh, you know
that juxtaposition or that you know that yin yang, that
contrast is something that also really attracted me to the
role of Boas.
Speaker 6 (06:46):
Uh you know, by itself, for sure, I love that.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
And you were talking about, you know, as an as
an artist, you weren't sure if.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
This was the right fit for you.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
What do you think, like was I guess, how are
you challenged in this role? She since you weren't sure
if you wanted to take this on per Se. Both
of you, guys, how are you challenged by taking on
this role?
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Well, well, let me rephrase that. I think that that
is a personal thing for me.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Was to.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
You know, have roles that challenged me in different ways
that don't have the music per Se makes us. I
want to make sure that I'm also, like, you know,
just being able to experience different characters.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Right.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
But there's something special about Ruth Mobley and this film
in particular, and I love that Tyler said it. First
of all, it's my first Tyler Perry film. Let me
just say that. Devon Franklin I love and I worked
with before on Kingdom Business and BT. Plus, I think
this felt it felt different because one, I got to
(07:54):
work with Babyface Hello. But more than that, the music
was a little different than I'm used to. It has
like this country kind of feel to it, and I've
never sang that like on record, and so when I
was doing that, I found something a spark that was
new for me and was like that country vibe and
it brought something different in my voice than I've ever
(08:16):
heard before. And even I remember on set one of
the actors. I forget which one it was. When when
we were playing the song back to back for the scene,
they were like, wait, this is you singing.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
I'm like yeah, and he's like, wow, you really.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Sound good on like this country vibe and I'm like, really,
thank you appreciate that. And I agree, is it country
or even gospel, it brings something else. It brings a
different vibration to the room. And so that was something
that super like was super different, but it was a
great nuance that, you know, I was excited to play
(08:51):
yeah entirely.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
I mean, you've been in a wide range of roles
as well, So how was this a.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Challenge for you?
Speaker 1 (08:56):
If it was, you know, like, did you learn anything
from it in any way?
Speaker 3 (09:01):
What are your thoughts?
Speaker 5 (09:01):
I think every you know, every role kind of presents
its own challenge for sure. I think for me, I've
never done a love like a true love story. I
think the closest I've I've been to it is Harlem,
But that's like a rom common is a comedic access
to aspect to it. So I think one challenge for
me is, you know, trying to trying to find like
(09:23):
like passion without being angry and nothing I'm an angry person, right,
but like I'm I'm an aries, I'm a fire sign.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
I fight for what it is that I want.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
So, uh, you know with this, uh you know Boaz
is really he's he's for sure, you know you see him.
Speaker 6 (09:39):
I don't know what. I don't think.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
Maybe Leo, So I think there was there was much
more of a calm aspect. So to find myself within
a calmness was was a challenge that you know, I
was up for and it was a lot of fun
trying to figure.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
It out perfect perfect Now working with Devon Franklin, Tyler
Perry and even under Netflix, how was that for you guys?
Like did you like the lessons learned or growth? I
mean talking more about the powerhouse that you guys had
behind you guys.
Speaker 6 (10:11):
Netflix, Tyler Perry, no pressure.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
I remember like pre production, the prep. I would say,
I've never done prep like that before, and I was like, okay,
welcome to the big leagues. Like driving like I said,
it's my first time working with Tyler Perry, working on
the studio here in Atlanta, and driving just on to
the Tyler Perry studio a lot, I was like hello, yeah, hi, yeah,
(10:38):
oh my God.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
I got a badge. I got a little key car.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
But other than that, honestly, I remember us sharing this
moment that just it was so vivid it came to
my mind. It was one of the pre prep weeks
or whatever, and we're doing like lighting tests and they
have us kind of like in front of the camera
basically just camera testing, not shooting anything, no lines, no nothing,
just hair and makeup. Let's let's, you know, shoot for
(11:08):
lighting to see what lighting they wanted for the movie.
And I remember me and Tyler like just standing. They're
like okay and I look at each other. Now look away.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
I look back at each other and.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
They're like doing whatever with the different hues and lighting
and things like that. And I was like, wow, this
is serious and Tyler was like, oh yeah, and I'm
just like I remember thinking, like I've never gone through
this type of prep.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
It just it just felt bigger.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
It felt it felt more serious, and details were intricate,
and I remember that being kind of like the foundation
for where we were about to go. And even now
the press, I'm like, well, hello press, you know Netflix,
Netflix employee.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
There's a lot of a lot of attention to detail
because even everything she mentioned it was you know, it
was a full it was a full production day. You
know that all the cameras, they're all, you know, fifty
people there just to take pictures.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
So you saw how much Netflix and Tyler Perry Studios
and uh, you know, with with uh Divine's input, how
much they were pouring into this. You know, so it
really raised the bar for us to be. And of
course we're professional, we're going to we're going to step
in and do our thing, but it really kind of
puts you, you know, put you there when you see
Mike Jordan Steff on the on the floor, we're supposed
to be here.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Yeah, it's so good.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
Yeah, because we take our craft that serious too.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
So it feels good to be you know, in the company.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Absolutely absolutely, we love that. We can't wait to see
the movie. But of course before we get out of here,
we got to get a little personal, just a little bit.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
I see the ring.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
I see the ring.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
It's gorgeous. How can we talk about the engagement a
little bit?
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (12:54):
I mean it's you know, the ring is it's it's
definitely a symbol of big love. But I think what's
more important for the ladies, it's not the ring's it
is the it's the foundation that you're setting.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
It's it's what do you want?
Speaker 4 (13:10):
And I think that that's the more important thing nowadays,
because don't get me wrong, like I feel like all
the girls want the ring because of what it symbolizes.
But I think we shouldn't lose what it's symbolizing, right.
It's it's love, it's it's commitment, it's setting a foundation
of family. And for me and my fiance, it's we're
(13:32):
big on just like we're big on black family, like
and so it's like, what what does that mean to us?
And in carrying that lineage out, it's big for big
for us, big for me. Anyways, I don't want to
speak for him, he's not here, but but it's big
for me. And I think it's really important to note
(13:53):
that nothing is perfect just because you see this ring here, Okay,
nothing's perfect, and everyone has their journey in love and
you can't count the years or the the oh because
I have girlfriends right obviously, and it's always like, well,
how long they've been together? How long? You know, And
(14:13):
you'll start to feel insecurities if you feel like, oh, well,
this happened for this person, you know, don't. Yeah, it's
like I want to I just want to go on
record and just be like, you know, it's not about comparison.
It's not about goals.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
You know what I mean, couple goals.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Like we all go through the same ship, you know what.
I'm sorry, we all go the same ship. And I
think it's just really important to consider your partner, know
what you want, and to have patience and grace and
and those things are really really important. But yes, so exciting, Yes, absolutely, well.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Congratulations and Tyler of course you miracle.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Wh how's everything with you?
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Guys?
Speaker 5 (14:51):
There were just you know, just just planning, planning the
wedding right now, and I'm learning, I'm learning, you know,
through my experience that y'all change your mind little bit.
So it was like, you know, at first, we want
to do something real big. She has a huge family,
I think even for even for our baby shower, we
(15:12):
did it down to Houston where she's from, and there
was like three hundred people. They're all real family members,
you know what I mean. So it was like at
first she wanted to do something big like that, and
then and then she you know, pulled A one eighty
and then she wanted to just Elope, just me and
her and do something real intimate, and we kind of
settled on the middle ground, do something like like forty
(15:32):
five fifty people, a little more intimate, but a destination wedding,
which we're going to do it in Cabo in Mexico.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
That's going to be nice.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
Yeah, we love we love Mexico. I mean that's that's
how we're.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Doing it, right, yeah, right now, right, I love that.
Do we probably know around Whinberg next summer.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
Yeah, it's towards the end of the summer, so yeah,
she got another she got another week or so before
you know, all the yeah, all the all the down
payments go out, so they get out next lettle seven
ten days.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
I was like, listen, I just dropped the baby. I'm like,
I need a little second.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
Yeah, yeah, it takes it takes a minute.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
I think there should be no kind of like what
you were saying to everybody has such a you know,
just such a judgment.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
Of what you should do.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
I think you should we should all give ourselves, our
partners grace and enough time to figure out what what
you want to day.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
I mean even that like as soon as we got engaged.
When's the literally like y'all please.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
Sleep?
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Yeah, you know, no, but it's it's definitely it's it's
definitely amazing.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
It's a blessing.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Yeah, congratulations, thank you, Yes again to congratulations.
Speaker 6 (16:40):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Congratulations to you both there absolutely so you guys obviously
work on other projects as well.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
First for you, Tyler, because I'm a peak balley stand.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
What's going on.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
It's the only way we uh we We finished it
last We finished it last year. Towards the end of
the year. I was filming. I was filming this and
that at the same time. And really, really hats off
to both of them, really hats off to both of
them because there was a there was for a for
a period of time.
Speaker 6 (17:09):
After I booked it.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
They weren't able to figure the schedule out, you know,
in the first position, so like for for a minute,
for a couple of days, like me and Devna were
on the phone like, man, I guess I catch you
on the next one. But they were able to work
it out, you know, KATORI had you know, and really the.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
What are they? What are they? What are the are
their titles?
Speaker 5 (17:28):
It's a it's a script not a script manager, no, no,
but the I think it's a line producer. Line producer
are the ones that figure the schedules out. The line
producers couldn't make it happen. So like the actually went
above KATORI had to pick up the phone and get
on the divine and they and they made it happen,
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
So shouts out to both of them.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
But he was.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Working okay, and there's so there's such a different character.
Speaker 6 (17:55):
Yeah, yeah, but we finished it up.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
We finished it last year, and I know that they
had just wrapped up the post production on it. So
it's like it's officially in the can. I just got
to wait to see see when they want to bring
it out.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Is coming on all right, because I'm ready to talk
to somebody at this point. So right now, you obviously
have a lot going on as well. What else are
you working on? Are we working on music to or
what's so?
Speaker 4 (18:18):
I actually just dropped a record called PDSO and I
am working on putting out the rest of my music
hopefully in the next month or two. So very exciting stuff.
I'm excited about this music. I'm excited about I have
a couple projects on the upcoming as well. So I'm
(18:39):
working on actually producing. I'm actually producing a non scripted show.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
I told you about this actually when we were shooting.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
This show so funny because it's about food and wine
and Ruth and Boaz made me think about it when
we were shooting and I showed him the sizzle. But
it's with my really good friend Brittany wyn Bush. She
is the girl it's called where It's called WTF. I'm sorry,
wya Brittany. So it's like where you at Brittany, And
(19:14):
she is just that girl in New York.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
She's in the city and she knows where.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
To go, where to be, who to talk to, what
wine to try, what dishes to have. And it's a
really cool show that we are producing and I'm really
looking forward to getting that going now. We have just
confirmed that it's going to be on key TV, So shout.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Out to my girl Keiky Palmer on YouTube.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
And so we're doing these ten minute segments and we're
looking to start production very soon. But that's it's so
cool to be like behind the camera also on just
to be in a creative mode. And then there's some
other films that are like coming up and talk, so
we'll see what happens.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
That's exciting.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
I can't wait to see all that come together. And Tyler,
I know we talked about Pea Valley and of course
this movie. Are you taking a break or do you
have anything else you are wanting to focus on in
the short or near future?
Speaker 6 (20:06):
No, ain't no rest for the weird.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
Uh So we also have a film called Goon's coming
out Sorey and Myself.
Speaker 6 (20:15):
Huh is that coming on?
Speaker 5 (20:17):
I was, I was, Yeah, I was talking to him.
He was they were getting the last time I spoke
to him, they were getting a distribution.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Amazing for sure.
Speaker 5 (20:25):
So that'll that'll be coming out with sore and Myself
as well, Michael Raney Junior, a bunch of lot of
other dope, dope actress, p Valley still on the way.
Oh no, yeah, Harlem came out. Okay, that was earlier.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Restaurant.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
Oh yeah, you got a restaurant downtown. But that keeps
me pretty busy, which is so you know what something
like a restaurant you can't you can't pick up a
brochure and learn you know what I'm saying. It's there's
there's an aspect that that you can only get from
the experience. Yeah, so you know I've had I've had
to learn that from my own experience. Lots of ups
and downs. But then once you get it, you know,
I corrected the ship. Now now it's running smooth. So
(21:04):
it was a learning process.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
Cool. I'm down in Tampa.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Yeah, in Tampa.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Hopefully we get more locations, so for sure it'll be nice.
All right, last question for the both of you guys.
Holidays are coming up.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
What's the planesh, so many conversations to have down there.
My family is like, you know, all over and then
we you know, now, it's just I don't.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Know, It's fine. We're taking it day by day.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
We're taking it day by day. We have a lot
of things going on. It seems like before member.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Yeah, I am like, yeah, yeah, I'm that girl. I
am too, So I gonna decorate you should as you should.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Well, any last words you want to leave with the
people before we get out of here.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Make sure you see Ruth and Boaz on Netflix comes
out on September twenty sixth, and we are so excited.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
For this, and please let us know what you think.
Have watched parties, Yes, have watch parties?
Speaker 5 (22:05):
Right, Yeah, this is one of those movies that you know,
it's exciting enough to watch by yourself. You just you know,
want to cut something off, but this is really something
that you can watch with the whole family, you know
what I'm saying, with the boys or girls. Yeah, it's
one of those. It's one of those movies.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Thank you both for coming into the studio today.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Thank you
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