December 3, 2024 • 24 mins
Tika Sumpter Talks Sonic The Hedgehog 3, Love Story, Taking Control As A Producer + More
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's way up with Angela. Ye, I feel like this
is my friend, your friend. Yes, we already are. We
just found out that your parents grew up and best died. Yes,
and I lived there so and I'm from Queens and
you're from Queens, which we already love. But you're also
like the icon from even just when I before I
even started in this business.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
What yeah, who said that? Come on, Teka Sumpter, let me.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Tell you something. It was like everybody's dream person.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
What where are the people?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Tika?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
You know this.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I don't act like you don't know this. Angela.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
You're making me feel very good right now. Thank you,
thank you to all the people you're talking.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
About, I said, because first of all, you still look
exactly the same.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Thank you as from when you were younger.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
I mean even like getting better with age, I would
say that.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Too, like find one right, like as we yes, honey,
as we get older, that happens. We're more knowledgeable, We
have more wisdom.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
And we know how to take care of our skin.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
And we know that go went out a club dancing
on a table is not We can't do.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
That anymore, no, ma'am.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Yeah, we stand on the couch man I'm on the
table because it's safer, and.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Can you please cancel our plans?
Speaker 1 (01:10):
And I know you have some skincare products that you're
working on too, Yes, since we're talking about your amazing skin.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Yeah, my company Fort Sumter, we're actually processing them now,
so they'll be out next year. So I have to
come back here and like show them to you when
I when I have them.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
I'm excited for that.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Me too, Me too.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
It's just nice to develop something outside of the industry,
you know what I mean, Like you do you do
a lot of you know, investing real estate and things
like that.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
You do a.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Loffee company, and yeah, my coffee uplifts people right there,
which we have a coffee shop in Bedsty.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Also, Yes, it's.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Been my dream to open a coffee shop. I've had
a book called like how to Open a Coffee Shop
for twenty.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Years How to Open a Coffee Shop.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
I'm sure that book is not relevant today because it's
from twenty years.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Ago, but I keep it as you had this dream.
I'm so proud of you.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Well, thank you coffee shop. Yes, and I love it.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
It's beautiful And we just got our liquor license, so
pretty soon we'll also have nice espresso.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Our teenis later.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Can I be like you? Can I be like you?
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Because you are starring in Sonic the Hedgehog three? Back again,
back again, and this is an all star lineup?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Of course?
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
People, what was it like?
Speaker 1 (02:20):
I mean, first of all, I got to ask so
many different questions doing Sonic the Hedgehog three. Are you
guys all in the room together? Or how do you
do it? Do you submit like your voice? Like?
Speaker 2 (02:28):
How does that one?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Oh? No, no, no?
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Where on set? I was in London filming this. The
first one we filmed was in Canada, the second one
is The second one was Hawaii, and the third one
was London.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
These are beautiful places to be filming girl.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
The writers are like, where else can we go? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (02:44):
And first it was a tennis ball in the first one.
The second one was like a three D cutout that
we were talking to. And then the fourth one is
these real puppeteers who sound like them and are moving
their mouths so we're like talking to them.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
That is so interesting that so I didn't know that's
how they do it.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
It's amazing, amazing. So I'm just grateful Paramount invested more
money in that well.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I mean, obviously it does really well, so.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Obviously, can I have another dollar?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
This fall? Star cast? How was it working with like
is it working with it? Just Elba? With Jim Carrey who.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
I worked with Jim Carrey the most out of all
of them, And at first I was starstruck.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
I was.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
I was kind of like, you know, we grew up
with him on a Living Color Fire Marshall Bill the Mask, like,
and you're just like and he's so sweet and he's
kind and the first time I met him, He's like, Okay,
let's work on the scene. What are your ideas? You
know kind of thing. And I was like, I have ideas.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
He thinks I have ideas. So it was incredible.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
I mean, and and Keanu Reeves just came on a
shadow you know you just Elba, I've known you just
for a very long time, and so to have him
part of this world is amazing. So I feel like
I feel like I'm in really good company and grateful
to be part of this franchise.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
How does your daughter how does Ella feel about this?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
I I'm like, does she understand? Like what did she understand?
Who her mom is?
Speaker 4 (04:03):
I feel like she really grasped it. The second one,
the first one she was younger. She that was the
first movie she actually sat through and was like whoa.
Then the next one she went to school and all
her friends are like.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Your mom's sonics mom, you know, and it's like, so
how sons sister?
Speaker 3 (04:23):
So yeah, she thinks I'm the coolest. Like she thinks
I'm the coolest, but she was.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
She'll still tell me a thing or two about myself,
like mom, fixed your you need to go do something
with your.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Hair, so she doesn't are you are you kidding?
Speaker 3 (04:34):
She's like, you need to shave.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
You know it's so cute too, is because I was
just you know, just looking at like what you your
relationship with your daughter and seeing how you have a
podcast and everything. Yes, you know that also focuses on her, yes,
as well.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Ella the Curious. Yeah, but the.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Podcast is called Adventures of Curiosity Cove and you just
launched a couple of months ago.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
I did, and I wanted to again and do. I'm
a storyteller and we've been telling Ellis stories for a
very long time. She's always been asking us more and
more and more and more. And now she's like in
the bath and she's like, can I have my podcast on? Like,
you know, she'll ask her her different podcasts. She'll be like, mom,
can you turn on the podcast r el Stein or
(05:18):
Curiosity Coved? And I'm like, she loves it because it
allows them to have free screen time, but it also
allows them to have imagination and social emotional well being
and just it's all original stories.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
It's fun.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
And I'm excited because I have a book coming out
next year that is an extension of that called I
Got It from My Mama, and it's about old school
parenting meets new school parenting and when parents actually apologize
for something that they've done to their children, and it's
this idea of kids love their parents are like, you know,
I got it from my mom. I got this from
(05:51):
my mom. I got that And then the mom and
the book ends up kind of yelling at the daughter
and she goes and mirrors that same thing at school,
and my mom's like, well, where'd you get That's like you, mama,
And she's like, oh, I'm sorry, you know, and it's
an apology and it's like old school no nobody apologized.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
It was like GHO, sit down right, coming too Yeah,
we got spankings. Girl got embarrassed in front of our friends.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Girl, if I tried to spake my child right now,
she'd be like, what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
First of all, Mom, first of all, do not don't
make me pick up this phone. That's so interesting.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
And I know I saw you say before that your
parents were more strict.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Yeah, my mom with you.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Your mom was very strict with you.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
My mom was very strict. She was a corrections office
her at Wrikers.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
She had do it.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
You know, you're just like whoa.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
And she was a single mom for a very long time,
so she had to protect us and that was her way.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
And I thought I would be that way.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
But I'm actually super kind of fluid with my daughter,
Like I'm just chill. But she knows better. When I'm
like look at her and give her the look, She's like, whoast.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
That playing around?
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Mom?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Why is your voice that way? I'm like, first of all,
I don't guess like me. I told you ten times already.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Yeah, So this so is this book kind of based
on the difference between your mother's parenting style and then
how your parenting style is with Ella.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
I think a lot of our generation is changing who,
how they are, how they parent, what.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
They how they I feel like if you.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Don't give voice to your child, if your child doesn't
acknowledge certain things, they're going to grow up to be
that adult. Like for me, I didn't know a lot
of my feelings. I didn't know, Oh my god, should
I apologize? Well, like, I just didn't know a lot
of things because it was like kids are supposed to be.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Seen and not heard.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Yes, that's a fact, you know. And so I feel like, listen,
don't ask questions, don't.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
And then you become the adult who doesn't ask questions,
who who does all those things. So I feel like
there's this new segment of people who are like, yeah,
it's okay that I apologize because I did something wrong,
And you're teaching your child emotional and social health, like
you're teaching them emotional IQ. I feel like, you know,
like intelligence.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
So yeah, So how old were you when you started acting?
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Oh my god, I was in my twenties, my young twenties. Yeah, yeah,
my young twenties, just hustling, you know, in New York,
pounding the pavement and I got my I was a
waitress like every other actress. You know, and you're like,
I'll make it someday, and and.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
You look walking by walking by every set that's on
in New York City, like somebody's gonna discover me. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
So yeah, and made it. One Life to Live was
my first show that I ever did, big show. It
was amazing, amazing talk to.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Me about landing that role too, because.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
I had just quit my job.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
I was. It was like it was like a weird movie.
It was like walking down the street crying. Somebody's like,
are you okay?
Speaker 3 (08:45):
I'm like I'm fine. You know.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
I was living with a boyfriend at the time who
was actually established. He's not an actor, but he's in
the he had a company, and he's like, Tika, you
have this is the first time I ever felt any
what it was to have kind of like a guy
or somebody who can say who allows you to fall
back on them and was able to let me fall
back on them because he was like, Tika, go for go,
(09:08):
you have six months, I will You'll be fine.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
I got you.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
That's a nice I was like, oh.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
But within a week, I booked a job and it
was like.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
And you might not have booked a job if you
hadn't lost your.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Job or I hadn't lost well, I left.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
If you hadn't quit your job, quit, why did you quit?
Speaker 3 (09:24):
I just felt like the.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
People were too much. They were you know, when to
your spirit, your soul is like, I can't. I can't
take any more mouth from these people. I can't because
you're crying every night, like you're coming home.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Like I'm miserable. I wait, I don't even want to
go in.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
I don't want to go in any day.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
I'm like, should I call out sick?
Speaker 4 (09:44):
I didn't know what mental health was then I was
going mental that was like that's what I felt like.
And my my ex who's now my friend, he was like,
you cry every time you come home, and I'm like,
this is not good.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
So one day I was just I had it. Somebody
said the wrong thing. I literally left. I just left left.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Nobody knew, nobody knew. I just left, and I was
walking down the street like you know, and this ladies
like are you okay? I was like fine, I'm like crying.
So and then not even a week later, I got.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
The call for things happened for a reason. It doesn't
say that, but it really definitely does. It really does,
and then things just were up from there.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Lean back, lean back, lean back.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Yes, but it feels like in life you've been able
to go after what you went and now I also
saw the story about your husband and how you actually
kind of wanted to holler at him first.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
I did.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
See I've always been that kind of girl, like, I've
always been the girl who's like, oh, I like it,
I see it, I want it, let's go, you know.
And so I you know, I shot, you know, I shot?
Speaker 3 (10:52):
What does it shoot? My shot?
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Yet?
Speaker 3 (10:54):
I shot my shot? How did the kids say it?
And yeah?
Speaker 4 (11:00):
He thought I was married? He was like, there's no
way you're you know, single, And.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
And you guys worked on set together.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Yeah, my makeup ended up on his nose and Tyler
Perry was like, why do you have brown on your nose?
Speaker 2 (11:14):
He was like, what are you doing? He was like what?
Speaker 1 (11:16):
No, yeah, what are you doing here?
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Yeah? He ran upstairs and was like he knows. I
was like no, so yeah, and then the rest is history.
Then we had a baby. The haves and the have nots,
the haves and the have nots.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
And speaking of Tyler Perry, you guys are working on
something together that you wrote Yeah, okay, talk to me
about this rom com.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
So I co wrote it with my friend Kimiando Catuno,
who's an EP on Pea Valley and she's a writer,
and we co wrote this. It's like this love story
between two sisters who have to find their way back
to each other after their mom passes and leaves them
a inn in Italy for them to split.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
They totally don't get along.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
One is superresponsible and one is not, but they it's
about reconciliation, and it's about finding love with each other
and for yourself and taking care of you and then
having the energy to be able to kind of, you know,
hold a stick out to somebody else and say I'm
ready to reconcile.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
And so I'm super excited.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
It's in Italy and in the US, and he read
it and he loved it, and he was like, let
me see if Amazon.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Wants to do it with us, and he has a
deal to Amazon. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
It's interesting because Tyler Perry normally writes his stuff and
all his stuff is going to number one, by the way,
every time.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
More sign ups than any other film, any other movies
on Amazon History.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
So it's not usual for him to pick something else
up that he didn't write.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Not usual at all.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
That's why I was like, He's like, I'll direct it.
He's like, this is all you. I made almost like
all the decisions, like mostly, and he was like, no,
you're producing this for real. And I was happy to
because I love to produce. But it was a lot
of work and I'm just I'm super proud of it.
Can't wait to see it all together. I've seen some
shots and they're gorgeous, and wait, so this is coming out.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
I think in like a year.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Amazon hasn't given us a date yet, but they're super
excited about it, and I think people are going to
be pleasantly surprised at least I hope so, and hopefully
we can get the biggest sign ups ever. So yeah,
but I'm grateful that I have somebody who believed in me.
And I also realize things don't have to take that long, like.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Everyone says that when it comes to filming with Taller
Perry because he does his.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Shots so cool, but not even that development. He said
yes in like the summer, and then we were starting
in September.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
It was quick, but it's nice because he has the
studio the studio, and that actually benefits a lot because
he can get it done yep, where you're not waiting
for this project to happen or this to happen. That
must have been a great feeling for you to write
this and then have.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Him, Oh my god, I've been trying to get it
done for five years. What Yeah, And other production companies
had it, but they just were like by the end,
They're like, I don't think we can get this done.
And I'm like, God, you can see the difference between
what real power looks.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Like and like, you know what I mean, Like everybody's trying,
but to have control.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Control and power is very different. And I've seen it
in action, you know, And I was.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Like, WHOA.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Sometimes people don't understand the process of actually getting something
to screen because it'll be things that have happening behind
the scenes forever.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
Y'all would not be on Twitter and threads talk about people.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
The way y'all do if y'all understood.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
What people go through to get anything made. And most
of the time the decisions that people are like who
said this and who it could be executives who just
need to put their fingers in it could be anybody,
but it's like do you want your thing made or not?
Speaker 1 (14:37):
You know, it's interesting because I spoke to Sister Soldier
the other day and she was talking about the coldest
winter ever and.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
I read that in Junior hig high school and how that.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Still is not a movie, but everybody wants it, you know,
as what happened. I think she's just trying to get
the right situation, you know, for that. Yeah, because she
has a new book out right now too, and so
she's been writing and she's been doing it. But just
the whole process it can be really like.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
It's painstaking and it would make you want to quit
and open a coffee shop.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
You know what, though you've been very consistent with your career. Yeah,
what do you feel like you owe that too? Because
it's not just you're lucky at all? You know, it's
a talent, but it's not just that either. Why do
you think that you've been just able to constantly work
because it's not an easy thing. Even the most talented actors,
even the people who are you know, respected, Sometimes people
(15:30):
go through tough times. But I feel like since you've
been on.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
One, I.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Don't take no for an answer, and I think resilience
is a lot to be spoken about, like and not
everybody has honestly time to be resilient because they're like,
I got to pay my bills, So you know, I'm
grateful that I've had, like back to back stuff I've had.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
I don't know, I don't know. Some of it is
a little bit of luck.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Some of it is a little bit of who you
know and the things that you take and the things
that you don't like when people are like it's like
I worked with Will Packer on stump Y R. Two
went straight to DVD like it wasn't like a thing,
it went straight, But then he hired me for ride along.
Right now, I'm like, what you think is small is not.
(16:18):
It's just steps to the next thing. So I've never
thought of anything in my career as small. I've just
always been like, hey, it's for the next thing. It's
for the next producer who's like, oh my god, come
and do this recurring. Oh my god, you have a pilot,
da da da, And so I don't know. But I
don't know why I keep working.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
I don't know why.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
I guess I can act a little bit, and I
made that in the most respectful way, because you are
super talented and I know people have had like you know,
we always hear acting is a tough business to be in.
And it's also not easy to make the right decisions
too sometimes because I know there's offers that come in
and sometimes it's hard to figure out, Okay, what should
I do?
Speaker 2 (16:56):
What should I not do?
Speaker 3 (16:57):
And you have to pay your bills.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Yeah, it's like a small percentage of people who are
actually able to pay their bills through acting. And I'm
not trying to discourage anyone from trying to do the thing,
but it's true.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
It's like it's not easy. It's not easy.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
And you've seen the landscape change a lot, just with
the streaming services now, because it feels like you said,
like things can go well, straight to DVD is a
thing too. It used to be a thing, proud, Yeah,
but that was a big money maker. And now it's
like streaming services because things will be in the movies
and then like a month later you're like, Okay, it's
already streaming.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Yeah, I mean it's shifting, and I think everybody's trying
to figure out their place in it and in the world,
and AI and all the things. So I think I
think everybody's just trying to figure out where they sit,
and which is another reason why I think people are
doing other things, like creating other brands and creating things
outside of just entertainment.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
How much do you love doing your podcast.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
My Adventure Security, Asky Groum. I love it. I love it.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
It's really cute.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
I would listen to a few other episodes because they're
like seventeens.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Yeah, man, they're easy.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Easy if you have a niece, nephew, whatever, if you
I mean.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
And they're making it interactive so kids can actually also
be able to participate.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
There we go, And so I love doing it because
not everybody has people in their lives who interact with
them or they read. Like reading is like one of
the number one things you should be doing with your child.
It's going to tell you how literate they are, how
far they go in high school, Like there's so many,
so much data on it. Not everybody has that, so
(18:30):
if they have something where they can use their imagination.
And I remember living in Queens and I used to
be outside all the time. But I love TV and
it allowed me to explore, you know what I mean,
Like outside of my block, right, like something bigger than me, right,
and so meeting cartoons and things like that.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
So I love doing it.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
What was your favorite cartoons grown up? Oh I forgot
about that. Saturday morning cartoons.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Oh my god, run inside, wake up early, turn the
TV on.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Oh my god, I love Rugrat.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
I loved he Man and Shira whatever that one, like skeletor.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
The Cattle the grade school?
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Yeah, esus, yes that, Yeah, you know, I love I
just love card I just love TV.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
So sound like The Hedgehog three is like a dream.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Oh my my brother would barely let me play, and
so I would just be in one of like the
sister in the room, like you know, trying to play
between Super Mario brothers.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
And yeah, and I'm so proud. I'm like, wow, this
is like a little girl's dream come true.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Really, And it's like I said, it's great for your
daughter to be able to see that and go to school.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
And I know you homeschooled to her for a little
while too.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
She's being homeschool now, she's been homeschool now Okay, yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
My husband, my husband does my husband's doing most of it. Wow,
you know, not there, but it's been great. I've never
seen my daughter so excited to play math games. I've
never seen her be like, oh my god, I understand
this now, or like we'll sit there and read. There's
this book called The Story of the World, and it's
about she's learning about like the history of Russia from
(20:05):
like late eighteen hundred nineteen hundreds, in the history of
China's relationship with Russia, like all of these things, and
I'm like.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Hold, I did learn to school.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
I was sitting there listening to like, wait a second,
hold on what Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Yeah, So it's it's it's it's interacting.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
So everyone's getting homeschool, we're all.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Getting home school.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
My niece, who's in college, came over and saw one
of my daughter's books and she goes, oh my god,
I don't even think I know this.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
I was like, you're a college girl. She's like, I know.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
That's like the math too, because it's like all this
stuff that the kids learned.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Girl, and that was the problem that they were learned.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
I was like, what did you think you were gonna
Did you always know you wanted to act or what
did you think you were going to do?
Speaker 3 (20:44):
If not this, I don't know. I thought I would
always act.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
I remember, like I told you in Queen's looking at
things being like but not understanding how is that even
a job?
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Like I see people on TV doing it? But like
you know, you you grow.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
Up with, get a nine to five, get your four
on one k and be happy.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
And get ready to retire. There was no I have
enough saved up acting.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Yeah no, but I knew it was always in my mind,
and so when I went to school, I was like, oh,
I'll become a publicist and then like work my way in.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
That's how, that's how, that's how silly like I had
no idea.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
I mean, it can happen.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
And then I literally went to Barnes and Nobles and
looked up like how do you do it?
Speaker 3 (21:26):
And then I, you know, did it. But I thought
I was like, maybe I'll be an anesthesiologist.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Okay, that's that I always needed.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
I think it just sounded good and it sounded simple, like, Okay,
I put somebody to sleep and make sure I'm there.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
You have to do like twenty years.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
To wake up exactly, not too much, not too much
on it exactly.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
I'm like, you still have to do like ten years
as well.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
I love that you get a book to learn how
to do everything you like, how to open a coffee shop,
how to and now we can just google stuff like
imagine that we didn't have that accent. Remember a map
quest where you had to like us, when you had
to actually or the garment, the navigation in the car
that you had to put it in the cut.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
And now look at us, girl, I don't know how
to get home from here. Girl on my own girl,
me neither. I'd be like, we're what's that? What's a shame?
Because we're all like on automation.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
And if your phone dies, you're like, oh, the world's over.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Well listen, I'm so excited that we had a chance
to sit down and talk. Sonic the Hedgehog three isn't
theaters on December twentieth. December twenty, I said, we're all
going to make sure we go see a family.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
It's such a family family picture, like not for just
little kids, for adults. There's jokes that you're gonna fly
over their head.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
We got some adult humor, of course.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Girl.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
When I saw my husband and I kept looking at
each other dying. There's some stuff where you're like, oh
my god, it's okay.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
No, no, no, it's not gonna get it.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
But we get we get it, we get it. But no,
but it's fun and it's nostalgic for us.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
It's such a family and there's a bunch of Easter
eggs in there from the game and gamers are gonna
love it.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Kids are gonna love it.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Family's gonna get it. But they was like, look, we're
not playing game. We could barely get it.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
They were like, you're.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Playing game, and I understand it. They're not playing no
games with this movie.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Girl.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
They were like, come to the lot, here's the time,
and that you have one time.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Leave your phone, the phone in his bag, and who's coming?
Speaker 3 (23:13):
What's their names?
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Like? They don't play all right, Well, congratulations on everything.
So you have the book coming out next year. I
got it from my mama. Yeah, on pre order now,
on pre order right now. Yeah, And Curiosity Cove is
out right now, right now, and listen to that podcast.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
You also have sisters in Italy.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
That gota be like a year from now that Tyler directed.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
I saw Whoopi Goldberg is signed. She's in it.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
Yeah, she already did her part. Ernie Hudson's in it,
Brisha Webbs in it. I love Bresha, Oh, I love her.
I love she. She plays my sister. She's so good,
she's so good, and she sings in this.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
And then you got the skincare products.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
The skincare. Yeah that, I'll let y'all know.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
I'll let y'all know.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
I'm doing everything, everything, all at once, it feels like,
but I'll let you guys know, and I'll come back
with all of this stuff.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
But I'm doing a little book toward thing, and so
maybe we can, I don't know, have a dinner or something.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Oh yes, I would love that.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
You know.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
You don't have a book club. Don't play with me?
So yes, so let's do it.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Let's do it.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
It's a done deal. Okay, cool, all right, we'll take
a sumpter, Ladies and gentlemen. She is just as amazing
in person as you can imagine. Like I said, I
know this was every guy's dream, and I'm sure it
still is.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
But you know, shout out to your husband.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Hey Sha, a girl needs people to dream about her.
So I'll take it.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
All right, Thank you so much, just way up, thank you.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Well,
It's way up with Angela. Ye, I feel like this
is my friend, your friend. Yes, we already are. We
just found out that your parents grew up and best died. Yes,
and I lived there so and I'm from Queens and
you're from Queens, which we already love. But you're also
like the icon from even just when I before I
even started in this business.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
What yeah, who said that? Come on, Teka Sumpter, let me.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Tell you something. It was like everybody's dream person.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
What where are the people?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Tika?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
You know this.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I don't act like you don't know this. Angela.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
You're making me feel very good right now. Thank you,
thank you to all the people you're talking.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
About, I said, because first of all, you still look
exactly the same.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Thank you as from when you were younger.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
I mean even like getting better with age, I would
say that.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Too, like find one right, like as we yes, honey,
as we get older, that happens. We're more knowledgeable, We
have more wisdom.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
And we know how to take care of our skin.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
And we know that go went out a club dancing
on a table is not We can't do.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
That anymore, no, ma'am.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Yeah, we stand on the couch man I'm on the
table because it's safer, and.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Can you please cancel our plans?
Speaker 1 (01:10):
And I know you have some skincare products that you're
working on too, Yes, since we're talking about your amazing skin.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Yeah, my company Fort Sumter, we're actually processing them now,
so they'll be out next year. So I have to
come back here and like show them to you when
I when I have them.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
I'm excited for that.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Me too, Me too.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
It's just nice to develop something outside of the industry,
you know what I mean, Like you do you do
a lot of you know, investing real estate and things
like that.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
You do a.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Loffee company, and yeah, my coffee uplifts people right there,
which we have a coffee shop in Bedsty.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Also, Yes, it's.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Been my dream to open a coffee shop. I've had
a book called like how to Open a Coffee Shop
for twenty.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Years How to Open a Coffee Shop.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
I'm sure that book is not relevant today because it's
from twenty years.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Ago, but I keep it as you had this dream.
I'm so proud of you.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Well, thank you coffee shop. Yes, and I love it.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
It's beautiful And we just got our liquor license, so
pretty soon we'll also have nice espresso.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Our teenis later.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Can I be like you? Can I be like you?
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Because you are starring in Sonic the Hedgehog three? Back again,
back again, and this is an all star lineup?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Of course?
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
People, what was it like?
Speaker 1 (02:20):
I mean, first of all, I got to ask so
many different questions doing Sonic the Hedgehog three. Are you
guys all in the room together? Or how do you
do it? Do you submit like your voice? Like?
Speaker 2 (02:28):
How does that one?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Oh? No, no, no?
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Where on set? I was in London filming this. The
first one we filmed was in Canada, the second one
is The second one was Hawaii, and the third one
was London.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
These are beautiful places to be filming girl.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
The writers are like, where else can we go? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (02:44):
And first it was a tennis ball in the first one.
The second one was like a three D cutout that
we were talking to. And then the fourth one is
these real puppeteers who sound like them and are moving
their mouths so we're like talking to them.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
That is so interesting that so I didn't know that's
how they do it.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
It's amazing, amazing. So I'm just grateful Paramount invested more
money in that well.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I mean, obviously it does really well, so.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Obviously, can I have another dollar?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
This fall? Star cast? How was it working with like
is it working with it? Just Elba? With Jim Carrey who.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
I worked with Jim Carrey the most out of all
of them, And at first I was starstruck.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
I was.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
I was kind of like, you know, we grew up
with him on a Living Color Fire Marshall Bill the Mask, like,
and you're just like and he's so sweet and he's
kind and the first time I met him, He's like, Okay,
let's work on the scene. What are your ideas? You
know kind of thing. And I was like, I have ideas.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
He thinks I have ideas. So it was incredible.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
I mean, and and Keanu Reeves just came on a
shadow you know you just Elba, I've known you just
for a very long time, and so to have him
part of this world is amazing. So I feel like
I feel like I'm in really good company and grateful
to be part of this franchise.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
How does your daughter how does Ella feel about this?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
I I'm like, does she understand? Like what did she understand?
Who her mom is?
Speaker 4 (04:03):
I feel like she really grasped it. The second one,
the first one she was younger. She that was the
first movie she actually sat through and was like whoa.
Then the next one she went to school and all
her friends are like.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Your mom's sonics mom, you know, and it's like, so
how sons sister?
Speaker 3 (04:23):
So yeah, she thinks I'm the coolest. Like she thinks
I'm the coolest, but she was.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
She'll still tell me a thing or two about myself,
like mom, fixed your you need to go do something
with your.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Hair, so she doesn't are you are you kidding?
Speaker 3 (04:34):
She's like, you need to shave.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
You know it's so cute too, is because I was
just you know, just looking at like what you your
relationship with your daughter and seeing how you have a
podcast and everything. Yes, you know that also focuses on her, yes,
as well.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Ella the Curious. Yeah, but the.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Podcast is called Adventures of Curiosity Cove and you just
launched a couple of months ago.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
I did, and I wanted to again and do. I'm
a storyteller and we've been telling Ellis stories for a
very long time. She's always been asking us more and
more and more and more. And now she's like in
the bath and she's like, can I have my podcast on? Like,
you know, she'll ask her her different podcasts. She'll be like, mom,
can you turn on the podcast r el Stein or
(05:18):
Curiosity Coved? And I'm like, she loves it because it
allows them to have free screen time, but it also
allows them to have imagination and social emotional well being
and just it's all original stories.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
It's fun.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
And I'm excited because I have a book coming out
next year that is an extension of that called I
Got It from My Mama, and it's about old school
parenting meets new school parenting and when parents actually apologize
for something that they've done to their children, and it's
this idea of kids love their parents are like, you know,
I got it from my mom. I got this from
(05:51):
my mom. I got that And then the mom and
the book ends up kind of yelling at the daughter
and she goes and mirrors that same thing at school,
and my mom's like, well, where'd you get That's like you, mama,
And she's like, oh, I'm sorry, you know, and it's
an apology and it's like old school no nobody apologized.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
It was like GHO, sit down right, coming too Yeah,
we got spankings. Girl got embarrassed in front of our friends.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Girl, if I tried to spake my child right now,
she'd be like, what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
First of all, Mom, first of all, do not don't
make me pick up this phone. That's so interesting.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
And I know I saw you say before that your
parents were more strict.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Yeah, my mom with you.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Your mom was very strict with you.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
My mom was very strict. She was a corrections office
her at Wrikers.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
She had do it.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
You know, you're just like whoa.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
And she was a single mom for a very long time,
so she had to protect us and that was her way.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
And I thought I would be that way.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
But I'm actually super kind of fluid with my daughter,
Like I'm just chill. But she knows better. When I'm
like look at her and give her the look, She's like, whoast.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
That playing around?
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Mom?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Why is your voice that way? I'm like, first of all,
I don't guess like me. I told you ten times already.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Yeah, So this so is this book kind of based
on the difference between your mother's parenting style and then
how your parenting style is with Ella.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
I think a lot of our generation is changing who,
how they are, how they parent, what.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
They how they I feel like if you.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Don't give voice to your child, if your child doesn't
acknowledge certain things, they're going to grow up to be
that adult. Like for me, I didn't know a lot
of my feelings. I didn't know, Oh my god, should
I apologize? Well, like, I just didn't know a lot
of things because it was like kids are supposed to be.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Seen and not heard.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Yes, that's a fact, you know. And so I feel like, listen,
don't ask questions, don't.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
And then you become the adult who doesn't ask questions,
who who does all those things. So I feel like
there's this new segment of people who are like, yeah,
it's okay that I apologize because I did something wrong,
And you're teaching your child emotional and social health, like
you're teaching them emotional IQ. I feel like, you know,
like intelligence.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
So yeah, So how old were you when you started acting?
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Oh my god, I was in my twenties, my young twenties. Yeah, yeah,
my young twenties, just hustling, you know, in New York,
pounding the pavement and I got my I was a
waitress like every other actress. You know, and you're like,
I'll make it someday, and and.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
You look walking by walking by every set that's on
in New York City, like somebody's gonna discover me. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
So yeah, and made it. One Life to Live was
my first show that I ever did, big show. It
was amazing, amazing talk to.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Me about landing that role too, because.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
I had just quit my job.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
I was. It was like it was like a weird movie.
It was like walking down the street crying. Somebody's like,
are you okay?
Speaker 3 (08:45):
I'm like I'm fine. You know.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
I was living with a boyfriend at the time who
was actually established. He's not an actor, but he's in
the he had a company, and he's like, Tika, you
have this is the first time I ever felt any
what it was to have kind of like a guy
or somebody who can say who allows you to fall
back on them and was able to let me fall
back on them because he was like, Tika, go for go,
(09:08):
you have six months, I will You'll be fine.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
I got you.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
That's a nice I was like, oh.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
But within a week, I booked a job and it
was like.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
And you might not have booked a job if you
hadn't lost your.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Job or I hadn't lost well, I left.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
If you hadn't quit your job, quit, why did you quit?
Speaker 3 (09:24):
I just felt like the.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
People were too much. They were you know, when to
your spirit, your soul is like, I can't. I can't
take any more mouth from these people. I can't because
you're crying every night, like you're coming home.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Like I'm miserable. I wait, I don't even want to
go in.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
I don't want to go in any day.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
I'm like, should I call out sick?
Speaker 4 (09:44):
I didn't know what mental health was then I was
going mental that was like that's what I felt like.
And my my ex who's now my friend, he was like,
you cry every time you come home, and I'm like,
this is not good.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
So one day I was just I had it. Somebody
said the wrong thing. I literally left. I just left left.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Nobody knew, nobody knew. I just left, and I was
walking down the street like you know, and this ladies
like are you okay? I was like fine, I'm like crying.
So and then not even a week later, I got.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
The call for things happened for a reason. It doesn't
say that, but it really definitely does. It really does,
and then things just were up from there.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Lean back, lean back, lean back.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Yes, but it feels like in life you've been able
to go after what you went and now I also
saw the story about your husband and how you actually
kind of wanted to holler at him first.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
I did.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
See I've always been that kind of girl, like, I've
always been the girl who's like, oh, I like it,
I see it, I want it, let's go, you know.
And so I you know, I shot, you know, I shot?
Speaker 3 (10:52):
What does it shoot? My shot?
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Yet?
Speaker 3 (10:54):
I shot my shot? How did the kids say it?
And yeah?
Speaker 4 (11:00):
He thought I was married? He was like, there's no
way you're you know, single, And.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
And you guys worked on set together.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Yeah, my makeup ended up on his nose and Tyler
Perry was like, why do you have brown on your nose?
Speaker 2 (11:14):
He was like, what are you doing? He was like what?
Speaker 1 (11:16):
No, yeah, what are you doing here?
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Yeah? He ran upstairs and was like he knows. I
was like no, so yeah, and then the rest is history.
Then we had a baby. The haves and the have nots,
the haves and the have nots.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
And speaking of Tyler Perry, you guys are working on
something together that you wrote Yeah, okay, talk to me
about this rom com.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
So I co wrote it with my friend Kimiando Catuno,
who's an EP on Pea Valley and she's a writer,
and we co wrote this. It's like this love story
between two sisters who have to find their way back
to each other after their mom passes and leaves them
a inn in Italy for them to split.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
They totally don't get along.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
One is superresponsible and one is not, but they it's
about reconciliation, and it's about finding love with each other
and for yourself and taking care of you and then
having the energy to be able to kind of, you know,
hold a stick out to somebody else and say I'm
ready to reconcile.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
And so I'm super excited.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
It's in Italy and in the US, and he read
it and he loved it, and he was like, let
me see if Amazon.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Wants to do it with us, and he has a
deal to Amazon. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
It's interesting because Tyler Perry normally writes his stuff and
all his stuff is going to number one, by the way,
every time.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
More sign ups than any other film, any other movies
on Amazon History.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
So it's not usual for him to pick something else
up that he didn't write.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Not usual at all.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
That's why I was like, He's like, I'll direct it.
He's like, this is all you. I made almost like
all the decisions, like mostly, and he was like, no,
you're producing this for real. And I was happy to
because I love to produce. But it was a lot
of work and I'm just I'm super proud of it.
Can't wait to see it all together. I've seen some
shots and they're gorgeous, and wait, so this is coming out.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
I think in like a year.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Amazon hasn't given us a date yet, but they're super
excited about it, and I think people are going to
be pleasantly surprised at least I hope so, and hopefully
we can get the biggest sign ups ever. So yeah,
but I'm grateful that I have somebody who believed in me.
And I also realize things don't have to take that long, like.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Everyone says that when it comes to filming with Taller
Perry because he does his.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Shots so cool, but not even that development. He said
yes in like the summer, and then we were starting
in September.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
It was quick, but it's nice because he has the
studio the studio, and that actually benefits a lot because
he can get it done yep, where you're not waiting
for this project to happen or this to happen. That
must have been a great feeling for you to write
this and then have.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Him, Oh my god, I've been trying to get it
done for five years. What Yeah, And other production companies
had it, but they just were like by the end,
They're like, I don't think we can get this done.
And I'm like, God, you can see the difference between
what real power looks.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Like and like, you know what I mean, Like everybody's trying,
but to have control.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Control and power is very different. And I've seen it
in action, you know, And I was.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Like, WHOA.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Sometimes people don't understand the process of actually getting something
to screen because it'll be things that have happening behind
the scenes forever.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
Y'all would not be on Twitter and threads talk about people.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
The way y'all do if y'all understood.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
What people go through to get anything made. And most
of the time the decisions that people are like who
said this and who it could be executives who just
need to put their fingers in it could be anybody,
but it's like do you want your thing made or not?
Speaker 1 (14:37):
You know, it's interesting because I spoke to Sister Soldier
the other day and she was talking about the coldest
winter ever and.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
I read that in Junior hig high school and how that.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Still is not a movie, but everybody wants it, you know,
as what happened. I think she's just trying to get
the right situation, you know, for that. Yeah, because she
has a new book out right now too, and so
she's been writing and she's been doing it. But just
the whole process it can be really like.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
It's painstaking and it would make you want to quit
and open a coffee shop.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
You know what, though you've been very consistent with your career. Yeah,
what do you feel like you owe that too? Because
it's not just you're lucky at all? You know, it's
a talent, but it's not just that either. Why do
you think that you've been just able to constantly work
because it's not an easy thing. Even the most talented actors,
even the people who are you know, respected, Sometimes people
(15:30):
go through tough times. But I feel like since you've
been on.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
One, I.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Don't take no for an answer, and I think resilience
is a lot to be spoken about, like and not
everybody has honestly time to be resilient because they're like,
I got to pay my bills, So you know, I'm
grateful that I've had, like back to back stuff I've had.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
I don't know, I don't know. Some of it is
a little bit of luck.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Some of it is a little bit of who you
know and the things that you take and the things
that you don't like when people are like it's like
I worked with Will Packer on stump Y R. Two
went straight to DVD like it wasn't like a thing,
it went straight, But then he hired me for ride along.
Right now, I'm like, what you think is small is not.
(16:18):
It's just steps to the next thing. So I've never
thought of anything in my career as small. I've just
always been like, hey, it's for the next thing. It's
for the next producer who's like, oh my god, come
and do this recurring. Oh my god, you have a pilot,
da da da, And so I don't know. But I
don't know why I keep working.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
I don't know why.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
I guess I can act a little bit, and I
made that in the most respectful way, because you are
super talented and I know people have had like you know,
we always hear acting is a tough business to be in.
And it's also not easy to make the right decisions
too sometimes because I know there's offers that come in
and sometimes it's hard to figure out, Okay, what should
I do?
Speaker 2 (16:56):
What should I not do?
Speaker 3 (16:57):
And you have to pay your bills.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Yeah, it's like a small percentage of people who are
actually able to pay their bills through acting. And I'm
not trying to discourage anyone from trying to do the thing,
but it's true.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
It's like it's not easy. It's not easy.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
And you've seen the landscape change a lot, just with
the streaming services now, because it feels like you said,
like things can go well, straight to DVD is a
thing too. It used to be a thing, proud, Yeah,
but that was a big money maker. And now it's
like streaming services because things will be in the movies
and then like a month later you're like, Okay, it's
already streaming.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Yeah, I mean it's shifting, and I think everybody's trying
to figure out their place in it and in the world,
and AI and all the things. So I think I
think everybody's just trying to figure out where they sit,
and which is another reason why I think people are
doing other things, like creating other brands and creating things
outside of just entertainment.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
How much do you love doing your podcast.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
My Adventure Security, Asky Groum. I love it. I love it.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
It's really cute.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
I would listen to a few other episodes because they're
like seventeens.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Yeah, man, they're easy.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Easy if you have a niece, nephew, whatever, if you
I mean.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
And they're making it interactive so kids can actually also
be able to participate.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
There we go, And so I love doing it because
not everybody has people in their lives who interact with
them or they read. Like reading is like one of
the number one things you should be doing with your child.
It's going to tell you how literate they are, how
far they go in high school, Like there's so many,
so much data on it. Not everybody has that, so
(18:30):
if they have something where they can use their imagination.
And I remember living in Queens and I used to
be outside all the time. But I love TV and
it allowed me to explore, you know what I mean,
Like outside of my block, right, like something bigger than me, right,
and so meeting cartoons and things like that.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
So I love doing it.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
What was your favorite cartoons grown up? Oh I forgot
about that. Saturday morning cartoons.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Oh my god, run inside, wake up early, turn the
TV on.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Oh my god, I love Rugrat.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
I loved he Man and Shira whatever that one, like skeletor.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
The Cattle the grade school?
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Yeah, esus, yes that, Yeah, you know, I love I
just love card I just love TV.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
So sound like The Hedgehog three is like a dream.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Oh my my brother would barely let me play, and
so I would just be in one of like the
sister in the room, like you know, trying to play
between Super Mario brothers.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
And yeah, and I'm so proud. I'm like, wow, this
is like a little girl's dream come true.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Really, And it's like I said, it's great for your
daughter to be able to see that and go to school.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
And I know you homeschooled to her for a little
while too.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
She's being homeschool now, she's been homeschool now Okay, yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
My husband, my husband does my husband's doing most of it. Wow,
you know, not there, but it's been great. I've never
seen my daughter so excited to play math games. I've
never seen her be like, oh my god, I understand
this now, or like we'll sit there and read. There's
this book called The Story of the World, and it's
about she's learning about like the history of Russia from
(20:05):
like late eighteen hundred nineteen hundreds, in the history of
China's relationship with Russia, like all of these things, and
I'm like.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Hold, I did learn to school.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
I was sitting there listening to like, wait a second,
hold on what Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Yeah, So it's it's it's it's interacting.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
So everyone's getting homeschool, we're all.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Getting home school.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
My niece, who's in college, came over and saw one
of my daughter's books and she goes, oh my god,
I don't even think I know this.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
I was like, you're a college girl. She's like, I know.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
That's like the math too, because it's like all this
stuff that the kids learned.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Girl, and that was the problem that they were learned.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
I was like, what did you think you were gonna
Did you always know you wanted to act or what
did you think you were going to do?
Speaker 3 (20:44):
If not this, I don't know. I thought I would
always act.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
I remember, like I told you in Queen's looking at
things being like but not understanding how is that even
a job?
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Like I see people on TV doing it? But like
you know, you you grow.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
Up with, get a nine to five, get your four
on one k and be happy.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
And get ready to retire. There was no I have
enough saved up acting.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Yeah no, but I knew it was always in my mind,
and so when I went to school, I was like, oh,
I'll become a publicist and then like work my way in.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
That's how, that's how, that's how silly like I had
no idea.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
I mean, it can happen.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
And then I literally went to Barnes and Nobles and
looked up like how do you do it?
Speaker 3 (21:26):
And then I, you know, did it. But I thought
I was like, maybe I'll be an anesthesiologist.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Okay, that's that I always needed.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
I think it just sounded good and it sounded simple, like, Okay,
I put somebody to sleep and make sure I'm there.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
You have to do like twenty years.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
To wake up exactly, not too much, not too much
on it exactly.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
I'm like, you still have to do like ten years
as well.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
I love that you get a book to learn how
to do everything you like, how to open a coffee shop,
how to and now we can just google stuff like
imagine that we didn't have that accent. Remember a map
quest where you had to like us, when you had
to actually or the garment, the navigation in the car
that you had to put it in the cut.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
And now look at us, girl, I don't know how
to get home from here. Girl on my own girl,
me neither. I'd be like, we're what's that? What's a shame?
Because we're all like on automation.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
And if your phone dies, you're like, oh, the world's over.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Well listen, I'm so excited that we had a chance
to sit down and talk. Sonic the Hedgehog three isn't
theaters on December twentieth. December twenty, I said, we're all
going to make sure we go see a family.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
It's such a family family picture, like not for just
little kids, for adults. There's jokes that you're gonna fly
over their head.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
We got some adult humor, of course.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Girl.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
When I saw my husband and I kept looking at
each other dying. There's some stuff where you're like, oh
my god, it's okay.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
No, no, no, it's not gonna get it.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
But we get we get it, we get it. But no,
but it's fun and it's nostalgic for us.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
It's such a family and there's a bunch of Easter
eggs in there from the game and gamers are gonna
love it.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Kids are gonna love it.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Family's gonna get it. But they was like, look, we're
not playing game. We could barely get it.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
They were like, you're.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Playing game, and I understand it. They're not playing no
games with this movie.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Girl.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
They were like, come to the lot, here's the time,
and that you have one time.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Leave your phone, the phone in his bag, and who's coming?
Speaker 3 (23:13):
What's their names?
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Like? They don't play all right, Well, congratulations on everything.
So you have the book coming out next year. I
got it from my mama. Yeah, on pre order now,
on pre order right now. Yeah, And Curiosity Cove is
out right now, right now, and listen to that podcast.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
You also have sisters in Italy.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
That gota be like a year from now that Tyler directed.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
I saw Whoopi Goldberg is signed. She's in it.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
Yeah, she already did her part. Ernie Hudson's in it,
Brisha Webbs in it. I love Bresha, Oh, I love her.
I love she. She plays my sister. She's so good,
she's so good, and she sings in this.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
And then you got the skincare products.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
The skincare. Yeah that, I'll let y'all know.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
I'll let y'all know.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
I'm doing everything, everything, all at once, it feels like,
but I'll let you guys know, and I'll come back
with all of this stuff.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
But I'm doing a little book toward thing, and so
maybe we can, I don't know, have a dinner or something.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Oh yes, I would love that.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
You know.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
You don't have a book club. Don't play with me?
So yes, so let's do it.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Let's do it.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
It's a done deal. Okay, cool, all right, we'll take
a sumpter, Ladies and gentlemen. She is just as amazing
in person as you can imagine. Like I said, I
know this was every guy's dream, and I'm sure it
still is.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
But you know, shout out to your husband.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Hey Sha, a girl needs people to dream about her.
So I'll take it.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
All right, Thank you so much, just way up, thank you.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Well,
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