Taraji P. Henson Talks Stepping into Her Power, New Movie 'Straw' + Plays ‘Check It or Let It Slide’

Taraji P. Henson Gets Honest About Fear of Rejection & Stepping into Her Power and more!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
Taraji p heads up. You look fired today.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
What's up baby?

Speaker 4 (00:22):
Everything and nothing at the same time.

Speaker 5 (00:24):
What do you mean everything is happening in your light
and then nothing like I mean rightly, yeah, if that
makes sense, it does make sense.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
The world is a weird place right now. It's strange.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
But I'm trying to stay afloat and find happiness and
joy and because that's that's your that's the rebellion.

Speaker 5 (00:42):
Yes, of course, fight back. I just watched My Happy
Place on CNN and watched you in Bali. Now I
feel very connected to this thing in your Bali because
you came on my podcast. We talked about you needing
to go to Bali.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
I was on my way to.

Speaker 3 (00:55):
Then you went to Bali.

Speaker 5 (00:57):
Then you came back, and when did you do? The
CNN specially so on that track.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
Another when again, when they reached out and was like,
where do you want to go? What's your happy place?
I was like, Bali? So they sent me.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
Back and that nice. See what you did there?

Speaker 5 (01:12):
See what you that's so good. You've been a couple
of times. Yes, gotta I gotta go.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
You must have. You have to go. If there's no
place like it the piece that you're gonna get. You
saw the you know the place, the spot that I
went to. Every product she used on my face, all
the lotion came right from the garden.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
You look amazing. I don't know what you're doing. What
you what you're putting on your skin?

Speaker 2 (01:35):
Drinking since when it's been months?

Speaker 3 (01:40):
Really tell me what everything? What happens?

Speaker 2 (01:43):
I just I you know, I have Somebody asked me, well,
what's your advice working out? I have the energy to Yeah, so.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
You like working out?

Speaker 2 (01:52):
I love it.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
I wish I had that, and you know why.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
It's a mental thing. For it's more about mental than
than the aesthetics. You know, I feel better, it's an
actual high.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
Like so the drinking was messing up your working out?

Speaker 2 (02:04):
Yeah, because I just didn't have the energy like the
next day. It was taking me longer to recover. Not
that I've had an issue or problem with drinking, but
I just chose to not do it.

Speaker 5 (02:15):
It is actual poison that it is a real poison
that we put in our body.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
I have, I'm lucid dreams I have I'm sleeping really
great throughout the night. I just feel much better.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
How long have you gone.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
It's gotta be what five months now? Wow?

Speaker 3 (02:34):
And no, not no five, it's.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
Gotta be about five.

Speaker 5 (02:38):
You have any tricks for that, because sometimes you be
like I mean, unless you have if you listen, if
you have a problem drinking and you give it up
for a reason, then.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
That's a whole different scenario.

Speaker 5 (02:45):
I'm talking about for people who just give it up
because or they take a break from it, because like
you know us, I might want to take a break
every now and then. But then I show up to
somebody's birthday party and they're like, anybody doing shot?

Speaker 3 (02:56):
What do you say?

Speaker 2 (02:57):
I just you know what I do because it I
don't feel like explaining because it's not really an explanation.
I did really want to be clear, like I felt
like I hadn't been really clear in a long time,
you know what I mean. And I got rid of
some bad energy that was in my life. And I
was like, that came because you weren't clear. So once
I got clear, I started seeing things that I probably

(03:18):
that I was missing. I don't want to miss shit
anymore in my life. I'm getting too old for that.
And so and I just I always knew I'm very
strong willed like that I used to smoke cigarettes, and
I knew when I picked up cigarettes and it became
a habit, I knew that I would have the will
power to put them down when I was ready, and
I did over twenty years ago. Wow, And I knew
it was the same. Like for drinking, I just one

(03:40):
day was like I don't want to do this anymore
and I stopped.

Speaker 3 (03:44):
And so what do you say to people when they
ask you, like, oh, let's talk?

Speaker 2 (03:46):
You know what I get? I go. The first thing
I do is I go to the bar and get
sell some water with a line.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
Yeah clean, I so to splash a cranberry, you know
what I mean? Just so because I don't feel I
don't have the conversation.

Speaker 4 (04:00):
But it's not even a big deal.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
It's just like I'm just not drinking. And it's so
sad because I think about people who have the problem. Right,
where do they go to socialize? Because everything is around
a drink. You can't even go to dinner without them
bringing you a drinking you and then if you say
you're not drinking that, you know, sometimes the waiters go
what like it's like, I'm not drinking? Is that okay?
Is that a crime.

Speaker 3 (04:20):
And do you notice that different things about people like.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
I just and you know what I realized And I
think this is why I've been able to stick with
it is because I've been having a really good time.
I can go out and enjoy it. You're a good
time where he said no, But I think that's I
think that's why I've been able to stay sober, because
I'm having a I'm enjoying myself. Not only that I'm

(04:43):
remembering what I did the night before, I'm remembering the
good time. There were times when I would drink and
the next day they'd be like, girl, you said you did,
and I'd be like, I did. That's a terrible feeling
because you I wouldn't remember stuff. And so now I
think I'm enjoying myself even more because I can remember
what the hell I did.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
Yeah, no, I get that. I loved that for you.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
Yeah, I'm really having a good on you. Yeah, I'm dancing.

Speaker 3 (05:07):
I see it on your skin and your leg. I
just feel like I see it on you.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
I'm like, yeah, I just feel better. Everybody says like
you look like you aging backwards. You stop drinking. I
think I'm I think I'm gonna try this and you
know what else too, as I don't really even like it.

Speaker 5 (05:23):
I do like a cocktail, but more than that, I
don't I don't like.

Speaker 3 (05:27):
The feeling of being drunk, right, so I don't really I.

Speaker 4 (05:30):
Think I could do it, and also you could.

Speaker 2 (05:32):
And another thing I noticed right away it was like
a stubborn like ten twenty pounds. I couldn't get rid
of it, came off all came off wow right away immediately.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (05:44):
No, that was so that that's the motivation keeping me
because I'm like, I don't want to go to because
I saw some kind of way of resurface to get
in my feed our interview.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
Before I went to BALI, my face was fat.

Speaker 3 (05:57):
Stop.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
I had a fat face. Stop look at them, look
at it. Look go back and take a look. You'll
be like, yeah, I can see it.

Speaker 3 (06:04):
Ten pounds does not make a fat face. But for you,
for you, wow, yeah.

Speaker 5 (06:12):
You look good and you look at thank you and
this good stuff happening. So wait this new movie call.
Let's get to the business and then we can talk
about catch up and all the fun stuff. Uh straw,
I love Come on with Tiana Taylor.

Speaker 4 (06:25):
Let me tell you about that young lady. She checks
all the boxes.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
What do you mean she can do everything? Yeah, she can,
and she doesn't leave anything on the table. She every
talent that she has, she taps into it, whatever it is.
She's just incredible. What about the one to watch? What about?

Speaker 5 (06:40):
We all know she's done some great stuff acting, but
like when she gets near you, you know your your
Taraji p Henson. She's Tiana Taylor, I know, but she
has her acting career is much newer than you are.
I just wondered if there was anything you shared with
her or any of that energy.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
Enough. We didn't have any scenes together in this movie.
I think the last scene of the movie is when
we interact where we actually see each other face to face. Now,
I passed her, you know, on the lot, you know,
on a day because we shot it in four days.
Oh wow, I was still working on fight night. So
I didn't really interact with her that often. Saw I

(07:18):
think I remember seeing her one time on the lot
and we hugged up, I saw the babies, I hugged
her mom and that was it. Yeah, but I never
saw her really on set. But I don't know if
I could talk about this, but she has this her.
Did she talk about what she's got coming out our music?
Let me shut up? Yeah, that's her business to tell.

Speaker 6 (07:39):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (07:40):
She was working on a secret project at the time.

Speaker 6 (07:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (07:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
So anyway, we worked on some things together and she
just kept going how saying how honored she was to
have me on, And I'm like, I'm honored. I'm honored
that she would even think of me, you know, so
I think the respect goes both ways.

Speaker 3 (07:56):
Oh, I love what you're hinting at, though.

Speaker 4 (07:59):
Tianna, she trying to get it out of me.

Speaker 3 (08:02):
What she's hinting at, Leave it right there on the table.

Speaker 5 (08:05):
But is there a thing you tell because I'm sure
you work with young actresses that are I just wonder,
as because you're so good at what you do, You're
such you're such a pro, you're such a goat at it, Like,
are there things for a young up and coming actors
or is there things that you tell them or you
share about the craft, about about the career.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
I just try to tell them, you know, just keep working,
keep working. Don't ever feel like you've arrived. You can
always go deeper, you know, don't take yourself too seriously,
try to live in between takes, you know, because I
don't you know, especially this character that I played in Straw.
I'm glad we got it in four days because you know,
sometimes that energy can stick with you. You know. Try

(08:49):
to use your body as an instrument, right, so like
you know, a trumpet player, they know how to hit
at flat as sharp immediately, you know, use your body
as the instrument. Don't take all days to get to
those emotions. Train your body to turn it on and
turn it off. You know, things like that have fun.

Speaker 5 (09:08):
But but what about those people that do like they
they're like character.

Speaker 3 (09:13):
The whole month.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
I can't judge that you don't do that. Hell no,
I got my own problems, characters problems, No, I literally
can you know. I was talking to Jesse the other
day and I was telling him about Straw, and he
was like, what what are you talking about? You would
have won on Empire and then then you'll cut. You'll

(09:34):
be like, move back the way. I gotta go play
my game. But that's because I've trained myself, like my
body is my instrument. I'm not. It doesn't take me
long to get emotionally where I need to be because
I've trained my body that's.

Speaker 3 (09:47):
So interesting to me that you could just.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
Do that and I can just do a drop of
a dime?

Speaker 3 (09:52):
Does that much freak?

Speaker 5 (09:53):
People really close to you out like a man or
like a man, like a relationship that I've heard it before.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
Are you serious? Are you really crying as this? I'm like, bitch,
I'm serious, I'm real. Go I get offended because I mean,
I'm grateful to God that I'm good at what I do.
But come on, now, I'm a real person. Yes, you know,
I'm a real person that have real fucking feelings.

Speaker 5 (10:19):
You pour your heart out and somebody's like, are you
acting that part?

Speaker 2 (10:22):
That's that makes me want to fight you?

Speaker 3 (10:25):
That actor?

Speaker 2 (10:27):
But I don't act in real life like that. You
there has to be a line like I can't. The
thing about me is I can't tell a lie Toaji
p Henson. Do don't tell me what you did. Don't
tell me where you stash the body, because if they
come asking my eyes, I'm a sweat. I'm gonna do everything.

Speaker 4 (10:44):
You surprised, Yeah, but I don't.

Speaker 3 (10:46):
Actresses were great.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
I can act. I can act my ass off because
that's what I'm supposed to do. But in real life
then if I'm acting in real life and acting on
the stage or on the film, where is Where's reality happening?

Speaker 3 (11:00):
So interesting?

Speaker 2 (11:01):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 5 (11:02):
I always thought that that was a good actress. It's
just they can lie, and I can.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
Tell a lie. I cannot. I am horrible.

Speaker 5 (11:08):
That's always why I thought I'd be a bad actress,
because I'm a bad.

Speaker 4 (11:12):
Liar, so probably be a great actress, I think.

Speaker 2 (11:15):
So.

Speaker 5 (11:15):
Now I feel like I've missed the I've missed the
mort eighty year old just grade. You might have seen
me in State Property to t.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
I don't go look at it.

Speaker 3 (11:28):
You want to say that I'm in Brown Sugar. You
saw me in Brown Sugar. Recently, you have seen me
in the Lisa Lisa biopic on Lifetime.

Speaker 4 (11:37):
Tell me I have to go watch that. I haven't
seen that yet. I'm gonna Survival of the Thickest. I
play Maya the Dawn.

Speaker 8 (11:43):
I'm gonna send you. I got resume over here. Can
I send you my acting real? Please do and you'll
give me like real tips real. Absolutely saw Mary the
other day. Mary said, I just saw Lisa Lisa movie.
You should act more because you're real natural on camera.

Speaker 2 (11:56):
I said, Okay, home to watch it. I'm going home
to watch it.

Speaker 5 (12:00):
And I was an Empire episode with you Gabby directed.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
Gabby. Yeah, that felt like it was so long ago ago.

Speaker 3 (12:13):
What do you how do you how do you remember
that time?

Speaker 2 (12:17):
Because people don't let me forget it?

Speaker 4 (12:18):
No, no, I mean how.

Speaker 2 (12:23):
Do you remember?

Speaker 3 (12:24):
I mean, like, how do you think about it at
that time?

Speaker 2 (12:27):
Like it was a good time. It was a good ride.
I mean the things we shook up the world with
that ship, Like people were talking about us in Russia,
in Germany like it was crazy.

Speaker 3 (12:37):
I remember that too, watching that shift for you, like.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
I was the radar. I was, and it wasn't like
I wasn't working. I was. You was already it was
already under the radar though like Papa Rozzi wasn't jumping
out on me. People weren't screaming and chasing the van
and banging on it and you know, risking their life.
But the cookie thing made me pop culture. Yeah, yeah,
I was hood classic and then I became popular.

Speaker 5 (13:05):
So that surprised you about that, Going through that journey
of that yeah a lot, I was.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
It took me by surprise. I mean I knew we
had something good but I didn't realize it until we
went to Paris and screamed it there and it was
fifteen hundred peep seats, standing room only, and I remember
the audience didn't know I was in. I was there.
They thought it was just Lee Daniels on the panel
asked answering questions, and then when it got to the

(13:31):
cookie questions, me Daniels said, well, why don't you ask
her yourself? Before he could say my name, get it
out all the way out, the entire room stood up
and was screaming, and I was and he didn't say cookie.
He said Taraji p And they was like, wow, they
got up and started screaming, and I started ugly face crime.
Oh no, because I had been told that, you know,

(13:53):
black didn't translate overseas my entire career.

Speaker 6 (13:56):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (13:57):
They kept saying, oh, they don't understand black movies over there.
Black women don't earn a hit over there. They're not
gonna it doesn't translate. So I ugly face crack because
I was like, y'all, motherfucker's lied to me because I knew,
because I know what our culture does, you know, so.

Speaker 3 (14:13):
It's another thing to experience it say it firsthand. Yeah,
you killed Fight Night too, by the way, thank you.
That looked like it was fun.

Speaker 2 (14:20):
It was a lot of fun. It was a lot
of fun. That one made me realize how much I've
been working because I got on the set first, the
first time. The entire cast was there, and I was like, dang,
I worked with everybody up here except for Sam Sam Jackson.
That was my first time working with him. Never worked
with him before. I feel like that's a movie waiting

(14:40):
to happen. Say it again. You hear that, don't you know?

Speaker 3 (14:44):
I feel like you should be action.

Speaker 4 (14:45):
Movie with something with him. That's my favorite world. That man, No,
he could curse.

Speaker 3 (14:54):
He saw his career in his forties. I believe Jackson.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
It's never too late. Looking that too late?

Speaker 3 (15:00):
You're that Sam.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
Shit. My first movie was I was twenty nine, baby boy.
I was twenty nine. Wow, I ain't look it. I
still don't look like.

Speaker 4 (15:11):
I think the nurse that clocked my age was drunk.

Speaker 2 (15:14):
I think she inverted the number.

Speaker 3 (15:16):
Yeah she was, she was. She was mistaken. She was mistaken.

Speaker 2 (15:20):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (15:20):
So at twenty nine, So that at twenty eight, were
you worried it wasn't gonna happen.

Speaker 2 (15:24):
No, I knew it was gonna happen. I saw it.
I saw it. My father had already sold those season
to me. I literally got off the flight. I was
when I landed first, when I first got to LA
with Shad's on my baby on my hip talking about
no pictures. Didn't nobody know what the hell I was.

Speaker 3 (15:42):
But that's that was the He's so crazy.

Speaker 2 (15:45):
That was a confidence I had because I was prepared,
Like I went to Howard, I studied with the best.
You know, I knew the talent that I had, and
I didn't see me in anything, and so I knew
there was a space for me. It was just a
matter of time.

Speaker 3 (16:00):
I love that manifested this whole thing.

Speaker 5 (16:02):
You have to Yeah, so this movie is you, Tianna
and Sherry Shepherd.

Speaker 3 (16:08):
Yes, that sound like a fun I mean, I.

Speaker 5 (16:10):
Know you didn't do much with Tiana, but that must
have been a fun shoot.

Speaker 2 (16:13):
Yeah. I did most of the stuff with Sherry, most
of the scenes with Sherry because of what my character
is going through. But you know, it's a single mother
who reached her last straw. I've been there before. But
my saving grace and which stopped me from you know
snapping was God, the grace of God and my family.

(16:35):
I have had an incredible support team.

Speaker 5 (16:38):
What is the thing that takes you there though? What
is the thing that gets you to your last straw s?

Speaker 2 (16:42):
Freak my child wrong? You know, we feel the pain
more than they do injustice. Injustice when I feel like
you're doing me dirty, you doing my child dirty? You
know you're not being fair? Like I hate mean people,
negative bullshit, you know, stuff like that sends me. You know.

(17:05):
But because I have an incredible sister circle, I have,
you know, I have support. You know, Jane I didn't
have anybody. I never got put out because I had
family that would slide me a fifty or one hundred
or you know, pay the phone bill when I couldn't,
you know, But jan I didn't have a support system.
It was just her and she got put out. A

(17:26):
lot of things happen. It's like that day where it's like,
what else can happen? You shouldn't have asked? Yeah, is
that everything that could go wrong goes wrong for her?

Speaker 3 (17:35):
And it was a last draw and then there's a bankropping.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
That's right, Well, you gotta watch it. I'm not gonna
sit up there.

Speaker 5 (17:43):
Sorry, I'm in by the way I'm in and I'm
gonna watch now you just being in that space as
I'm in all the way in by I watch everything
that you're into so much. All right, So Taraji in
real life, her questionnaire to last year she ate was Brenzino,
of course, and well she's so glowing and healthy.

Speaker 3 (18:03):
She eats healthy.

Speaker 2 (18:05):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (18:05):
Your karaoke song long Walk.

Speaker 2 (18:08):
Yes, Jill Scott, that's my favorite song to sing karaoke.

Speaker 3 (18:13):
Do you body it?

Speaker 2 (18:14):
I'm a fucking.

Speaker 3 (18:18):
Jill Scott.

Speaker 2 (18:19):
Jill Scott is like one of my favorite singers of
all times.

Speaker 4 (18:23):
And I keep telling her that what is it? Crownwroy
on Ice?

Speaker 2 (18:27):
It was she cheated us man two minutes.

Speaker 7 (18:31):
Girl.

Speaker 2 (18:33):
Every time I get the mic, I'm gonna say this.
I told her, I said, you've cheated us two minutes.
We need at least ten minutes of that song. Okay,
minutes seven? Can we get six? Right?

Speaker 3 (18:44):
You have always loved one of her in the Dave
Chappelle movie when she has that moment with Erica and
they're going back and.

Speaker 4 (18:50):
Forth, Oh about uh, but they're.

Speaker 3 (18:53):
Both like riffing this.

Speaker 2 (18:55):
What's the song? Did you know what's through by way.
I gotta love this, huh. And I was the homies
baby don't worry you know that you got me that
song if you don't.

Speaker 3 (19:06):
Worry by way?

Speaker 2 (19:07):
Yes, you know who I saw? Oh yeah, that's my
love that.

Speaker 5 (19:16):
No, Jill Jill did the jail to the original Eric
is saying it. But at the at the at the
David Chappelle block party, they did it together. Yeah, but
there was a moment where they were like, there was
like a it was.

Speaker 3 (19:30):
Sisterly and there was love.

Speaker 2 (19:32):
It was a little competitive, but.

Speaker 5 (19:33):
The competitiveness and the both of them came out and
they did this like sparring thing that was phenomenal.

Speaker 2 (19:41):
No, it was incredible. It was incredible. Seen it. Go
watch it and the beat I know exactly the beat.

Speaker 3 (19:50):
Because it's not only that they're both buying it, but
you watched the.

Speaker 2 (19:54):
Do you see the competitiveness, competitiveness come alive though it
wasn't like but it was.

Speaker 5 (20:01):
It was.

Speaker 3 (20:03):
It was a mystery behind that.

Speaker 2 (20:07):
It's so good.

Speaker 3 (20:08):
Have you ever do that? Do you ever? Because I
can easily snap into that, I can get into.

Speaker 4 (20:13):
Yeah like competitive yeah yeah yeah.

Speaker 3 (20:17):
But inappropriately competitive?

Speaker 6 (20:18):
Ever?

Speaker 2 (20:19):
No, okay, because I love Yeah, you're you're an athlete.
We can say that now you are. You play golf.
That's not that's not easy. You're an athlete.

Speaker 4 (20:34):
Spirit It is competitive absolutely.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
I mean I'm not an athlete, but I am competitive.

Speaker 3 (20:39):
You you are. You're a bodybuilder. You're a bodybuilder, which
is an athlete.

Speaker 2 (20:44):
I'm not a bodybuilder. Of pushing it.

Speaker 4 (20:48):
You are a bodybuilder, but yeah, super competitive.

Speaker 2 (20:52):
All right.

Speaker 3 (20:53):
Wait the last hole you went down gospel hip hop?

Speaker 2 (20:57):
You know what? And it took me by surprise because
on my feed, you know, you like one thing and
then all of a sudden it all comes up. Yes,
it's really a thing.

Speaker 5 (21:08):
God bless the little Pakistani man who dances, because now
my whole feed is like, that's.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
People from past dancing. Yeah, and it's quite enjoyable. Yes.
And golf, yeah, of course.

Speaker 3 (21:21):
So you have a gospel hip.

Speaker 2 (21:22):
Hop gospel hip hop and it comes through my feed
and I one night I must have posted and my
stories about twenty different groups singing because they would do
like they not like us that beat. But it will
be spiritual, you know what I mean, be gospels. So
I found it very interesting and dope, like I'm gonna.

Speaker 4 (21:40):
Check it out.

Speaker 6 (21:41):
What who knew?

Speaker 3 (21:42):
I'm going down the rabbit hole.

Speaker 2 (21:44):
All right, we have it?

Speaker 3 (21:45):
Gonna be some mess, did you No?

Speaker 5 (21:47):
I would never, I would never assume that about you.
All Right, we have a little.

Speaker 3 (21:53):
Game, but we're gonna do our digital game. Will you
do this with us?

Speaker 4 (21:55):
Sure, it's a segment that we've done a couple of times.

Speaker 5 (21:57):
We just recently did it with Coco. It's a it's Ivy.
What is the name of it. It's called check It
or Let It Slide? Lord, So situation occurs. Do you
check somebody about it or do you let it slide?

Speaker 3 (22:13):
If you check them me?

Speaker 2 (22:14):
Now you know I'm sober.

Speaker 3 (22:16):
Now you're sober.

Speaker 5 (22:17):
You're you've been to Bolly multiple times. You're at one
and peaceful.

Speaker 2 (22:21):
I am not. This will be both.

Speaker 3 (22:23):
This will be for both of us to I think,
for both of us to answer. Yes.

Speaker 4 (22:26):
Okay, set it up, Ivy. This is check it or
let it slide.

Speaker 7 (22:30):
I'm gonna give you some circumstances. You got let me know.
If you're gonna check it, you're gonna.

Speaker 3 (22:33):
Let it slide?

Speaker 2 (22:34):
Okay? All right?

Speaker 7 (22:35):
He posts you on close friends, but never on the
main feed.

Speaker 2 (22:39):
Oh I'm checking that ship word.

Speaker 3 (22:41):
I agree.

Speaker 2 (22:42):
I can checking that.

Speaker 4 (22:43):
I hope.

Speaker 3 (22:51):
Checking it, but she's checking it immediately.

Speaker 2 (22:53):
Immediately you're talking to well, you know, if we're serious,
you better be posted. If we just met, no, I
might need to know nothing yet is there to know
if it's time to post you yet? We don't know
if it's gonna stick.

Speaker 3 (23:09):
You know it's sticking. Uh huh.

Speaker 2 (23:12):
I can't answer that for everybody. When you know it's sticking,
then you post. I feel you. I'm to the point
where if it ain't no r well, I ain't even
trying to get married. No more so that I'm gonna
say this for the young ladies. You know, if the
ring is on the finger, then that's when you post.
I wouldn't post nothing unless I knew it was very serious,

(23:32):
because otherwise it's looking like a revolving door.

Speaker 3 (23:35):
Hello.

Speaker 2 (23:36):
But I'm not judging. I'm just you ask for my
little bit of an opinion, so much check it or
let it slide.

Speaker 7 (23:46):
He tells you he's intimidated about how powerful you are.

Speaker 2 (23:50):
Oh, I have to check that me too, Yeah, because
that's not gonna last. So I'm not gonna dim my
life for you hoe anybody.

Speaker 3 (23:57):
It's a hole out here, well, so many, so many.

Speaker 7 (24:03):
Now your homegirl keeps calling your ex her bro.

Speaker 3 (24:08):
No checking out.

Speaker 4 (24:09):
We got to check that a sat Yeah.

Speaker 3 (24:12):
Checking it. By the way, I'm not getting checked everything right.
We checked pretty much out of pocket. Out of pocket.
It's not a pocket.

Speaker 6 (24:24):
Home, okay.

Speaker 2 (24:27):
Bro.

Speaker 7 (24:28):
A co star tries to give you acting notes.

Speaker 3 (24:30):
So this is for her, not for me.

Speaker 5 (24:32):
Okay, because you saw me paper soldiers too, right, this
is for both.

Speaker 3 (24:39):
The or state property.

Speaker 5 (24:41):
You might have seen state properties Kevin Hart's first movie,
So yeah, give it to us.

Speaker 3 (24:45):
The actresses, okay, the actresses.

Speaker 7 (24:47):
Yes, a co star tries to give you acting notes unprovoked.

Speaker 2 (24:50):
It depends on who it is.

Speaker 5 (24:52):
Sam Jackson's Okay, maybe maybe, but I think those they
know better.

Speaker 2 (24:57):
They wouldn't, you know, bitch, let me see your resume then.

Speaker 5 (25:07):
So for me, if this is a question to me
and you would the person giving me advice, I would be.

Speaker 4 (25:12):
Thrilled to have that advice.

Speaker 2 (25:14):
A seasoned actor would never we just that's not something
you do. It's understod language. Yeah, you would not unless
someone asked. If you ask me, then I will. But
I'm not gonna put it on you, not unless I
see you struggling, and I'll be like, you know, maybe
try this, you know, but if I'm not.

Speaker 5 (25:32):
Has anybody ever given you something as a seasoned actress
already and somebody gave you something that actually worked or
it was good?

Speaker 6 (25:39):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (25:39):
Absolutely the director?

Speaker 7 (25:47):
Okay, you post something powerful on social media and someone
replies you're doing too much.

Speaker 2 (25:57):
Really because they all talking.

Speaker 4 (25:59):
I'm not gonna say I always let it slide.

Speaker 2 (26:01):
But you know a lot of times when you respond,
you're responding out of your trauma. You understand what I mean,
because if you're healed, that shit ain't gonna bother you. Yeah,
let its slide.

Speaker 4 (26:12):
I agree, let us slide unless.

Speaker 2 (26:16):
Unless they say something my kid, something about the kid
or somebody you care about, or you say something I
don't know every now and then sometimes, but you know
what you just literally you have to let us side
because you're giving power to a ghost who knows who
this person is.

Speaker 5 (26:32):
You know what I've been finding myself lately, I want
to jump in when it's not about me, right Like,
i find myself wanting to defend people on socials and
I've been Brittany has been pulling me back away from
my phone.

Speaker 2 (26:44):
I will type a whole paragraph and then be like,
what are you doing and delete it? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (26:50):
Me too, regular daily?

Speaker 4 (26:51):
Why am I?

Speaker 2 (26:52):
Why? Why? Why give your you know, expel your energy
on that.

Speaker 5 (26:58):
Okay, So the short answer for us is we both
let it slide. Let it slide, but don't get crazy.

Speaker 2 (27:04):
Don't get don't get like the bitches that said my
bling was fake. Go and believe what you will. Sweetie.
I bet you don't see this money, what I spent
on that ever in your lifetime. You've never seen it.
But see, I can't say that, but you want to say.

Speaker 4 (27:18):
I can't say that to the people because they.

Speaker 2 (27:21):
Not sound like the bully.

Speaker 7 (27:22):
Right.

Speaker 2 (27:23):
You know you're response standing in shade, bitch, I mean
you sho show me diamonds that bling in the shade
in the dark, Like, come on if you really think
to rox beans out here walking around with fake diamonds, like,
but see, I don't have nothing to prove to them,

(27:45):
even though they just did get under my call.

Speaker 4 (27:46):
And I said, but see I have a mic, bitch.

Speaker 5 (27:48):
You don't let it let it slide.

Speaker 2 (27:56):
I said it today and I said, someone to Sherry show.

Speaker 7 (28:00):
A younger girl keeps calling you auntie every time she
sees you.

Speaker 2 (28:04):
I don't mind that. Depending on the age.

Speaker 3 (28:08):
Yeah, don't be the same agent calling me Auntie.

Speaker 4 (28:10):
Now, don't now Now, I'm gonna check your ads.

Speaker 2 (28:13):
I'm gonna check yours like no, no, yeah, I don't.
I don't mind that. I'm mining that from the babies
my son thirty one. But Auntie, what's wrong way I'm
a fly Auntie. It depends on how you take Auntie.
I've had I.

Speaker 7 (28:29):
Have fly aunties Ergie, not jackety.

Speaker 3 (28:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (28:32):
I'm not really into it. I'm not into it, but
I don't. I'm not gonna check it because it's not
that serious.

Speaker 3 (28:37):
It's not like it's hurting my feelings.

Speaker 5 (28:38):
It's just like you're gonna get less of a happy
response from me.

Speaker 2 (28:42):
Yeah, I don't it.

Speaker 3 (28:43):
Does you like it?

Speaker 2 (28:45):
I don't.

Speaker 4 (28:45):
I don't like it or hate it.

Speaker 3 (28:46):
It doesn't bother you.

Speaker 5 (28:48):
So we're letting it slide. I let it, let it slide.
I'm gonna let it.

Speaker 3 (28:51):
Let it slide too.

Speaker 4 (28:52):
I'm not gonna check because it's for me.

Speaker 2 (28:54):
They're not coming at me. It's not demeaning. It's actually
looking up. That's how I take it, and that's how
they say like like that Auntie, that cool ass auntie
that they like to talk to. That that's that's how
more I take it. I take it more like that.
She's not buying it, not at all at all.

Speaker 3 (29:12):
Yeah, I'm not into it. I don't love it, but
I let it slide.

Speaker 2 (29:17):
Grandma, by the way.

Speaker 4 (29:18):
Anything that first of all, then we're going to get
into a fight.

Speaker 3 (29:21):
But it was it depends on how it's.

Speaker 4 (29:26):
It's how.

Speaker 3 (29:28):
I like Sis.

Speaker 4 (29:29):
Yeah, what the fuck? I can't be big sins.

Speaker 2 (29:31):
I get Sis. I get Sis, I get big Sis,
I get Auntie. I'm not it doesn't buy them because,
like I said, it comes for me the way I
take it, and the way they're saying is out of respect.

Speaker 4 (29:41):
Yes, someone actually, by the way, I love it.

Speaker 3 (29:43):
For my actual nieces and god children.

Speaker 2 (29:47):
Right only because what are they? Five? Twelve, six?

Speaker 3 (29:51):
Yes? Up up to sixteen seventeen? Yeah, go ahead, I
got two more for y'all. All right, come on, last too.

Speaker 7 (29:57):
A fan grabs your arm.

Speaker 4 (30:00):
No, no, no, no, no, no, finish with your hands me.

Speaker 2 (30:05):
Do not touch me, Do not fucking touch me.

Speaker 3 (30:11):
Was that the end of the question.

Speaker 7 (30:12):
Well, they grab your arm for a selfie. Don't tell
me you're not getting a selfie, not.

Speaker 4 (30:17):
Getting a selfie, and you might get smack. Don't fucking
touch me.

Speaker 2 (30:21):
Reflexes. I'm just saying, out of reflexes, checking that you
might catch an elbow, you know what I mean. If
you're not expecting anybody to grab you, that's reflex grab
you by the elbow.

Speaker 3 (30:39):
And also, can I just add something the poking?

Speaker 2 (30:43):
Oh my god, don't touch me.

Speaker 3 (30:45):
I won't kill you.

Speaker 2 (30:46):
Don't just don't want to.

Speaker 3 (30:49):
I want to go into a room.

Speaker 2 (30:50):
Yeah, just please keep your hands to yourself. Just how
about let's do that?

Speaker 3 (30:55):
A poke from anybody, even my family.

Speaker 2 (30:58):
I don't like that.

Speaker 4 (31:00):
It's so horrible.

Speaker 5 (31:02):
It's horrible, and I have to go like this for
like ten minutes after because it's like it makes me
so mad.

Speaker 2 (31:09):
It makes me so mad.

Speaker 5 (31:11):
Anyway, carry on, so checking again, so much checking, we do, well.

Speaker 7 (31:17):
It's necessary, all right. A guy says, you don't look
like yourself without makeup?

Speaker 4 (31:23):
Fuck you?

Speaker 3 (31:30):
Yeah, no, he has to check?

Speaker 4 (31:32):
Maybe where did this question even come from?

Speaker 3 (31:35):
It's who did that? Somebody say that to somebody?

Speaker 7 (31:38):
Yes, they say it all the time, where they're same.

Speaker 3 (31:41):
You don't look the same without makeup?

Speaker 4 (31:44):
What what the.

Speaker 7 (31:45):
Fuck are you?

Speaker 4 (31:45):
Saying exactly that.

Speaker 7 (31:47):
You're a different person without makeup. Maybe I'm not saying you, I'm.

Speaker 2 (31:53):
I know what you're saying, just like, Wow, you ain't
the same with your fucking hat on.

Speaker 6 (31:57):
Bitch the Champion.

Speaker 3 (32:17):
What's the day do we have? As?

Speaker 2 (32:19):
On Netflix? Straw Straw on Netflix movie Straw Baby?

Speaker 3 (32:25):
We love you, baby, don't we? We don't want to hit.

Speaker 5 (32:27):
Taraji's last straw in the streets because she will check
you clearly.

Speaker 2 (32:30):
Maybe, I don't know. Depends on the day.

Speaker 3 (32:34):
If you want to risk, if you want to.

Speaker 2 (32:36):
Don't touch me, don't you?

Speaker 3 (32:39):
I love you, baby, Thank you so much for today.

Speaker 2 (32:41):
Congratul golf with you one time?

Speaker 3 (32:44):
Will you wait?

Speaker 2 (32:45):
Is this a con?

Speaker 3 (32:46):
You don't play with me?

Speaker 2 (32:47):
I don't know if I'll last, but I will last
for driving the golf cart around.

Speaker 5 (32:52):
Now, I'm gonna take you around. I'm really good at
taking people out for the first time. Okay, I'll try
that because I give you.

Speaker 3 (32:58):
One day of the land. I tell you the etiquette.
You hit a couple of balls, I.

Speaker 5 (33:00):
Keep it real light for your first time, no stress
too hard, and and we'll have music and cocktail or
no cocktail for you. A virgin in mocktail, whether mocktail
will have a good playlist.

Speaker 3 (33:12):
Maybe we throw some.

Speaker 5 (33:12):
Juice got in there. Yeah, and uh and it'll be fun.
We'll do that for sure.

Speaker 2 (33:17):
Okay, Now I will have a sip up my seven
daughters though, h you know why because it doesn't get you.
It's not you don't get you spas like you know,
it doesn't.

Speaker 4 (33:27):
Oh, how does that work?

Speaker 2 (33:28):
You have a wine? I know I'm saying I will.
I will sip that. Yeah, but you cause what cocktail
is my wine? But you know I don't do it.
I don't drink a lot. Just put it that way.

Speaker 3 (33:39):
Yeah, you put it on occasion.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
Yeah, well I have to.

Speaker 4 (33:43):
Yeah, I mean not that I have to.

Speaker 2 (33:44):
I actually really enjoyed seven Daughters, but I don't like
you know, once upon a time, it was drinking wine
every night. It was every time I go to dinner.
I gotta have a cocktail every time.

Speaker 3 (33:55):
You know, Well, whatever you doing, you look amazing better
than ever.

Speaker 5 (33:59):
Baby, Thank you so much to Roger p Henson in
the building, y'all bout one to five point one