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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Wake that ass up in the morning.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
The Breakfast Club Morning, everybody in stevej Envy just hilarious.
Charlamagne the guy.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
We are the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
We got a special guest in the building. She has
a new movie premiere on Saturday, August third. I thought
my husband's wife was dead.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Ladies and gentlemen, LaToya Luckett.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
Morning, I'm up, go bless me with another day.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
I'm up. I love this hair. Thank you, yes, thank you.
It's so good to hear your voice and see everybody. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (00:33):
You know, I keep looking at the title of this
movie and I just can't figure out what it's about.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
You know what, I thought the same thing when I
read the script. It's like what Actually it was intriguing.
It's like, here, what is this really about? And I
guess I'll go into that.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
My character Victoria, I'll start there.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Vicky was presumed dead and when she shows back up,
she just reaks habit.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
So she shows back up to.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Her current husband's home and it's greeted by his new wife.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
I'll say that.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Current husband or ex husband, but current that's why you
gotta watch the movie.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, So they she shows up to.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Her current husband's home and meets his new wife five years.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
I mean, in real life, would you be upset if
your man moved on.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
If if he thought that I was presumed dead. I No,
I wouldn't be upset about that. I wouldn't be upset
about that. I mean because obviously life goes on, and
I wouldn't want to I wouldn't want to make him
feel like, you know, he can't move on with his life,
he you know, can't find love again.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
I think that's a bit unfair.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I don't think I could as a man unless I
knew for sure. No, I don't think I could. There
was no body. Yeah, I would have to know for sure.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Yeah, that's the thing.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
That's why you gotta watch the movie, because this is
a different it's different something that it depends on the situation.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
It does depend on the situation.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Now, if I if if my you know, my signific
and other passed on and this wasn't the case, then no,
I'm not gonna, you know, say he can't marry or
not go in peace knowing that he would probably remarry
in the next couple of years.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Do you feel like Toy came back a little two entitles?
Speaker 1 (02:15):
No, no, oh no, not at all. No, she came
back to get what was hers abstely well deserved.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I mean you were talking to I mean you.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Were talking life insurance policy, you were talking everything that
was in that house.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Run me. Yeah, it was that, and I ain't good
to see you. Run me my fund.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Oh no, no, no, no, we got to And I think,
you know, I do see both sides.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
You know, I understand that they probably thought, Okay, we
can move on with our lives.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
We can invest here, we can invest there. But I
think obviously when she shows back up, it's like, Okay,
this does belong to her, this came from her father,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Is this really my I'm gonna at that point say.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Okay, whatever we gotta do to fix this, and whatever
makes you comfortable, because obviously you've probably.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Been through some things. However we can help. I'm here
for it.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
But I don't I don't necessarily know if she was
greeted with that energy.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
It's hard to talk about the movie.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
And just spoiling it because that's exactly And don't be
the watcher that watches for thirty.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Seconds and be like, okay, what's next?
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Let me, No, you have to be invested in this
movie because it's not It's not a slow movie movie
at all. As a matter of fact, it's gonna catch
It's gonna catch you immediately. But I feel like in
order for you to really get into it, you have
to put some things down, sit there and actually watch engage,
and then I think your mind is gonna be blown
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by the.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
End of the movie. You have a little crazy to
play this character.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
See, I have to tap into something.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
You tapped into something.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
But the thing about being an actor you can't judge
the character. So I couldn't go into this thing saying, well,
Toya wouldn't do that, or uh wla, Toya really say that?
Or I can't do that. So I and the reason
I decided to play this characters because I felt her
story deserve to be told. And there are people out
here not going through something as extreme as this, but
people that are maybe suffering in silence or you know,
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they feel they're being treated unfairly in the marriage or
any kind of relationship and they don't.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Have the guts to speak up about it. So I
enjoy playing roles, you know, like this, And I wanted
to feel stretched. I wanted to. This was something that
was out of the ordinary for me. I've played the
well to do wife who has it all together. No,
I wanted.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
I got in there and I was like, strip me down,
I want to look absolutely crazy. And when I was
sending photos from set to like my family members.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Like, okay, wait, let me show up. Where are you at?
Because you look nuts?
Speaker 2 (04:46):
You ever got that crazy in a real relationship?
Speaker 3 (04:48):
You have at all had to get a little crazy?
Speaker 1 (04:51):
You know what's so funny? At the airport just yesterday?
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Oh you got crazy yesterday.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
I was looking I didn't get crazy yesterday. I was
looking through my phone for something and I saw that
I had stored like a side.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Chick's number for my ex boyfriend and my phone. I
was like, why do I still have this?
Speaker 3 (05:09):
You forgot to call her?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I never called her. Yeah, but why do I even
have this in here?
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Because you wanted to call it?
Speaker 4 (05:15):
It was just a just in case, just in case,
but I had to have a little bit of offness.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
It was a little bit of something. Does that mean
it's been there? Maybe before? Wait, I'm gonna say two
thousand and seven.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Jesus.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
That's why I was like, why is I know I've
had several phones since this.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Did you feel like? Just texted her and like, are
you still with him? I just want to know, you know, did.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
They work out for you? It did not? It did not.
He is no.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
I don't think he's the settling type. But I just
feel like I had to have a little bit of
some off that means you off. Why did I have
it though?
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Because you wanted to call her and see what was
going on? Woman? The woman I'm just calling you.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
I had the I was ready to go for the
woman to woman conversation, right, but I didn't even But
I'm also the type that I'm like, I'm not even
gonna give you that type of energy, Like, okay, if
I'm not going to be in no competition for anybody.
So if you want and if he want you, boy
me gotcha. You know y'all have that.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
But did you erase the number?
Speaker 1 (06:16):
I did not. I should go and handle that.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
If she's a well known side check you never know
she's not.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
She was very and after at the end of the day,
me and her probably could have been friends. She's super sweet,
quiet to herself. You know it's about this.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Get a whole profile check on her. She's a virgo.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Social Security and number is you know, no, no, I did. Yeah,
we can off that. But yeah, yeah, I thought about
that last night.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
Now, not to give away too much of the movie,
but would the money that you were old make up
for everything that happened to you?
Speaker 4 (06:54):
No? Okay, oh no, this woman was terrible. Okay, oh
this was It was awful. Like I can't even begin
to describe the things that she went through. She went
through some things. So no, money, money doesn't make up
for it. But I mean it's the best they can do.
I mean they you can't make up for time. You
can't get time back.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
And she lost what six years? Six years and get
that time back.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
You know, there were things that she wanted to do
in her life. She was you know, she wanted to
have children, she wanted to, you know, do things with
her business.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
All these she can't get that time back. Yeah, you
can't buy that time.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Just because I saw you schooling somebody, who was who you?
The dog asked in just no, no.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
It was nice.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
She's trying to eat in the living room but sweeding there.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
So I told the glor in the kitchen, okay, but
you had a question. She got this baby bout to
drop fi.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
O.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
Look, what I love about the movie is that you
actually played it well. Vicki or Tory goes through yeah right, both,
like all the traumas like losing her parents early and
then being kidnapping, almost killed and all of that. What
did you do, Like, what were your methods to get
into this role?
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Because you said you had to tap in, but that's.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
All you said.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Can you expound on it?
Speaker 6 (08:10):
Like, what what are some things that you that you
had to do to get ready for this?
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Because this is a pretty serious.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Role, very very very I did like do some research
and look up things on because I didn't get the chance.
I really wanted to go and sit with some women
who would even if they were shelters, like to talk
to women who had been through abusic or you know,
domestic violent relationships. I've known people that had experienced that before.
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But I did, you know, read up on things like that,
you know, kidnappings, that's that's a lot.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
It's a whole whole lot.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
It's it's it's something you actually have to I'm sure
experience in order to really yeah, tap in like truly.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Happened to it.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
But honestly, I just went into it, not judging it,
allowing myself to feel those moments when we did the
kidnapping scenes, when we did the stuff in the forest
or whatever, like I was afraid, Like we were shooting
those scenes at night.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
I'm a scared cat.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
I don't even watch scared commercials like very real. I'm
it's very real. So I allowed myself to feel that fear.
I allowed myself to, you know, feel like, Okay, I
don't know what's gonna happen next, what you know, even
though cameras were rolling, I knew hom Hee was gonna.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Push, you know, pop out the bushes.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
I still, in that moment, allowed myself to feel. There
was a scene I did in the bathroom. I'm a
whole germaphobia, Like I'm a for real I take for real.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Bath and move your hands off that desk. Then I
don't do that to it. We wipe it down before,
we wipe it down before you got you wipe it
down before even though he is, even though he is
that type, even microphone get close to it, we wipe
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it down. We wipe it down before anybody comes in there.
I read right here. One of our producers wipes it down.
We wipe it down, but.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
We can't get no chlorox.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
He wipes it down with cloroxes.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Now I'm just okay.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
So here's the thing I had to do, y'all. A
scene on a public bathroom floor.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
No, sure did, did you have the cooties?
Speaker 5 (10:22):
No?
Speaker 1 (10:22):
And guess what he was a men's bathroom. No, yeah,
I thought, And they kept saying, we cleaned it, you know,
we put bleach on the floor. It's the whole thing.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
I said, Oh no, no, no, no, I need to actually
see somebody get down there and scrub because that's gross.
And I had to lay on a bathroom floor, and
I just allowed myself to feel all the eishness of
that moment, and I just put it into the scene.
There was a scene where I had to do in
the forest in this I don't even know what it was, win,
(10:53):
a bagel, whatever it was, but it the smells the
quiet of the moment, because because just imagine being hell
captive somewhere for six years and it's quiet, nobody's hearing
your screens, you talking to yourself, You're doing all kinds
of things Like I allowed myself to feel a little
out of my mind, and I I just allowed myself
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to go there. And that's what I think made those
scenes so wonderful and believable, in my opinion, is because
I really just allowed myself to step outside of myself
and be uncomfortable.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
How you come back, That's where That's where the process was.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
It was being able to snap out of that and
leave all of those emotions on set. That was the
hardest part, like going back to your room and not
carrying that because even with some of the emotional scenes,
I had to tap into some of my own traumas.
And there were so many times where the cameras would
stop rolling and they would yell cut, and I would
be crying for another thirty minutes because I was still
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there and still shook, and still could feel all of
the those feelings. And I said, Okay, okay, you're doing
your work today. You're doing your work today, because if
I'm having to call my therapist after a scene, that
means I've really tapped into something that I thought I
was probably over.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
I promise you I was thinking that because I always
wonder if you're a person that that's doing the work,
and we all know healing is not a linear journey,
right but if you're doing the work and you know,
you do make some steps forward to where you're getting
to a closer place of being healed.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
But then you got to go do a movie for
three months and like kind of trauma dump.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Yes, I'm away from my kids, I'm away from everything
that I know, Like I it really that quiet is.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
That's what bothered me the most.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
I'm so used to being in a home full of
you know, kids and all kinds of things going on,
and to be by myself and still that's when I
was like, Okay, maybe I'm maybe I need.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
To dig a little deeper into things.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Yeah, And I was okay with that, But that's where
the I'm honestly not even y'all talking about it right now,
I'm wanting to cry or I'm feeling those emotions again.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
And would you do anole like this?
Speaker 4 (13:11):
I would, because I do feel like sometimes people are
scared to play roles like this. They don't want to
be ugly on camera. They don't want people to see
that ugly cry. They don't want people to see them, you.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Know, outside of glam and nah like that.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
That's why I love being an actress and outside of
you know, music, it's because I want people to see.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
All sides of first of all, LaToya.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
But also I truly want to speak for women. I
really want to be the best representative I possibly can.
And if there's a woman out there that is going
through something like Victoria has gone through, I just I
think her story.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Needs to be told.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Yeah, I always wonder.
Speaker 6 (13:57):
I was asking them because she I'm sat outside of music.
Would you say that your love for actings are passion
love for music? Because I know music is your number
one passion.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
That's it is it is, But I mean, it's like
asking which one is your favorite child.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
They're both gifts given by God, and it's like I
love that He has allowed me and giving me a
platform to be able to share them.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
And that's I can't. I can't say which one I
love the most.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Did you did you always love acting? Or it was
one of those things where music was your love and
he was like, let me try this, and you fell
in love with it.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
I know, I just fell into acting. I would do
school plays as a kid.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
We all did which one but.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
Pinocchio, my dog played and he played Sandy and Annie.
That's funny you say that but yes, dog, my dog,
My dog got cast to play Sandy and Annie and
a well Miller out door theater in Houston, Texas.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Like that's a big thing.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Paid.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
I think my parents probably got it. I don't know
what with the funds for that.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
I don't know who got paid the dog. I mean
the food stayed the same, so he didn't get.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
No extra treat. Dog got rested soul Sam, yeah, he.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Or Peter.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
I don't know the baby got paid. I don't know
if you know what.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
I asked my mom and dad later on about okay,
But I fell into acting.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
I was actually doing UH.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
I was on the road with a place that was
my first time really doing uh, anything to do with acting,
And I got a call from an agency, Paradigm Agency,
and they asked to take a meeting. They sent me
on my first audition. My first audition was for Preacher's Kid.
I got cast it as it was.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
A smaller role.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
And then I think a week before they actually started production,
they asked me to would be okay with taking the
lead and I didn't think.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Twice I got on a plane in Atlanta and here
we are.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
I always wondered how it was life.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Uh, in discreet different now from when you first started,
because it feels like a whole new world.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Whole new world, a whole new world.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
I mean, you gotta think I started when I was
twelve years old. We were singing everywhere, I mean in
front of grocery stores, on planes, anywhere that our voices
could be heard, talent shows.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
The grind was different and there was no like.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
I feel like, everything's happens a lot faster now. Of course,
we have social media platforms. People can post their music, YouTube,
all these sound cloud, all these things that wasn't available
to us. So we depended on local news. We dependent
on just you know, local talent shows, the hot local
producers to produce our records, and.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
The grind was a lot tougher.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
I feel like the barrier, the barrier of entry was
tougher too.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
First of all, the main goal was to get a
record deal. Now you don't really even need that, you
know what I mean. So if you got your record deal,
oh you was on you know, or to even get
the attention.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
If you think back in.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
The day, the you had to get a manager first.
So getting a manager was like the big deal before
our time. And then to get a producer to recognize
you so that they would produce your album.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
It was so many huge steps that you had to
take before you got your big opportunity.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
And that's why I think like once you got that
big opportunity you.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
It was it was a different feeling. You didn't take
it lightly. You showed up, showed up. We know how
to show up on time. We showed up ready the
live performances.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
We was giving it all. I mean, you had to
be able to sing, act and dance when we was
coming up. You had to have all of the things.
And I think now you know, it's just a little different.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
It's no, I'm not saying that you Honestly, folk got to.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Like you for some you could line. But would you
want your kids to do it? Would you want your
kids to be in this industry?
Speaker 1 (18:00):
You know what I wouldn't. I wouldn't say don't.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
I would.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
I would share my experiences with them and say, hey, honey,
this ain't for the week, and don't do it.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Don't just do it for money.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Why you say you wouldn't, I wouldn't because I know
mentally the things that you have to go through.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
I saw a lot I've seen a whole whole lot
good and bad.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
In my time in this entertainment industry, and I know
that I had to become a different type of person
hart I mean not I've never hardened my heart towards anybody.
But you have to have a very strong mentality to
be in this industry and unwavering in your faith in
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so many other things.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
You have to stay true to yourself.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
And I think that nowadays, especially with you know, the
new generation, somebody leave a bad comment on Instagram and
they ready to be done, you know what I mean,
And you can't have you can't be that fragile.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Now you said your faith tested, what was the worst test.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
That you had to overcome or what was the worst
thing that you've seen without.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Saying I mean, I'm saying some things, you know. I mean,
of course I had my experience which we went through
that as children.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
So thank God, whoa.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
You know, with having to go through even just not
being having friendships kid friendships like we started at twelve,
some of us started at nine. So to lose a
best friend or not you know, have that communication with
them anymore, and for that to be such a major
chaine shift in your life to be able to have
to deal with that. And back then, like therapists weren't in,
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we didn't have a therapist to walk us through a
transition like that. So it was basically I think for me,
the grace of God that he was able to put
angels in my life to help guide me into you know,
the next phase of my life. And I don't know
how many people would have been able to survive that.
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H And also, you know, you see greed. You see
greed in this industry a lot. You see people caring
about you one day. And this is not me speaking
on my experience, but you know, people love you one
day and the next day's well, I don't even know
their name who And you got to just be a
different kind of person to deal with that.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
I was because you said, you know, you can't be
too fragile, and you did kind of touch on them.
You said there was no therapist back then, But even
back then, y'all had to be fragile too. So if
what I for, those people are walking y'all through you
to and I'm sure you did crack.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
What I mean. I mean, here's the cool part.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
Like there wasn't like a shade room or media takeout
to see the cracking. Like I was able to actually
do have my my feelings and my mess ups in
my emotions in my the comfort of.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
My home until you want. He was trying top there
was one, it was.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
But Wendy didn't have She ain't had nothing to say
about me, thank god.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
And I was.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
I was just able to heal and go through everything
that I needed to go through without a camera in
my face or a blog finding out or something like that.
And I remember when everything first happened, I was in
my bedroom listening to the local radio station and they
started talking about it, and I was alone in my room,
seventeen eighteen years old, and I just remember putting the
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sheets over my head.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
Up.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Yeah, I'm sure that's got to be like frustrating to
constantly hear about because it's like.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
They didn't that didn't go away for a while. It
didn't go away and it and it's.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Like having a for real relate. It's a divorce.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
It's a major divorce and seeing your partner move on
and be successful and folk love them, and it's you know,
and here's the part, like I am glad that that
situation happened because one.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
I was able to.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
I'm a pre PK, but I got to know God
on a whole other level, you know what I mean.
My relationship with God changed. I also became confident in myself.
Had I not, you know, gone through that, I wouldn't
have become a solo artist.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
I wouldn't have been able to.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
I didn't even feel that I was even ready to
move on or be a part of this industry. After
that happened and God allowed the opportunity for me to
get back in the studio.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Then I got a record, Then I got a record deal.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Then I started performing, and I was having like major
breakdowns before even going live on stage because I was like,
I'm up here by myself.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
I'm up here by myself, Like what am I going
to do?
Speaker 4 (22:43):
But had I not gone through those things, I don't
think I would be as confident as I am today.
I don't think I would believe in my voice the
way that I do today. I don't think that, you know,
I would have even said, Okay, I'm going to expand
and believe in God to take on this new career
as an actress. I probably just would have stayed in.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
My comfort zone. So I'm glad a.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Question because you said something just not that made me
think about it.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
You know, you said, you're watching everybody going to have
tremendous success, right, But when you're in a group, like
a Destiny's child, I would think even at a young age,
you kind of knew who was going to be the
breakout star, Like you knew like did they tell did
they tell.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
All of y'all that all of y'all was going to
be breakouts us?
Speaker 1 (23:25):
No? I mean we are.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
It was a team player of mentality, So I don't
think any of any of us at that time were thinking.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Someone was gonna go solo.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
It was about the group group, and we were groomed
to have that group mentality. But I mean, come on,
you hit that girl, open her mouth. It's different, and
I'm not gonna sit up here and compare myself or
go well, you know, she doesn't deserve more opportunities.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
First of all, she brought me in the group. She
showed up to school and showed me the T shirt
and asked me, you know, to audition for her.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Dad, And she said, you want to be a child
of Destiny.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
She did not say that because that was not the
name of the group called Girls Time at the time,
and uh, you know, she said, you know what you
want to you want to audition for my dad? And
I said absolutely, And she gave me the biggest break
of my life. Wow.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
I will always be grateful for her.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
I will always admire her for her talents and her
her this I don't I don't think I've ever met
someone who works harder than Beyonce Zelle Knows.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
That is not her name anymore. It's Beyonce Knows Carter
and I am.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
I am so proud of everything that she's done and
to even say that I was a part of a
chapter of her life and and a part of such
a phenomenal group.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Shout out to all the.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
Girls of the Children, Kelly, Beyonce, LaTavia, Michelle. I love
y'all all, Dearly, Happy birthday, Michelle, Happy birthdaysh but.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
I I I'm grateful. You'll never hear ugly work.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
I just had a reunion earlier year.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
We were in the same room for the first time
ever and it was a I really still can't wrap
my head around that moment because we I've all been
around all of them individually over the you know, the
past few years, but having us all in the same
room at the same time with all our different energies.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Was kind of like, hey, okay.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
You know we were you know, Mom's wives, all the things, and.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
We were talking more about that, and then we prayed together,
we hugged, cried, and.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
People always would ask is there any possibility of a
reunion tour, reunion song.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
I'd be down reunion show. I would love something like that.
Who would it?
Speaker 4 (25:47):
But it's uh, if if the opportunity presented itself, I
would welcome it.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Yeah, I saw you earlier this year. You said that
created a wonderful space.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
What she did, she really really did, and it was
it was so cute when she when she came off stage,
she was on her cart, her and Jay and she
dang hopped that off that cart while it was still
moving to come in and embrace us and give us
a hug.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
And she's like, yes, girl, that's outfit.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
Dah dah dah.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
You know immediately we went first of all to watch
her go from doing was that a three hour show?
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (26:23):
It was it three hours? Okay, it was three hours,
three hour show? Go backstage.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
I don't know how the baby switched into that hoodie
so quick that black hoodie outfit got on the cart
with her husband. Immediately that energy presented itself. Okay, she's
gone right into wife mode. And then she hops off
the cart and the children just run and I said, okay,
she she didn't even have time to woo saw. She
goes right back into being a mom, you know. And
(26:50):
then we're there and there's this big new moment for her.
I'm like, how is she taking all this on? And
I at that moment wanted to go, girl, did you.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Have you had ten? If somebody bring up some water,
some lemon, you need some towels. She didn't really get
to have that. She just went with the flow.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
But it was beautiful to see her come off the
stage entertaining I don't know how many people over seventy
five thousand people, and go straight into making sure she
was present for her daughters who were present there, you know,
and that just speaks to who she is, it really does.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
I know you got to wrap, but I do have
one last question, because you said you wouldn't want your
kids in the business.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
I said that what I had said chall was I
wouldn't say don't be in the business, but what I
would do is share my experience, and I would say,
you know, it's not for the week. And also, I'm
a person that feels like God doesn't take you through
things for nothing. And I love to share my testimony.
I love to share things that I've been through so
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that it will hopefully be a learning experience for somebody else.
And also show somebody, hey, even though you might be
going through a storm right now, there's light of the
end of the tunnel. It might be for real, might
be okay, you might come out of this thing all right.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
So I would share that with.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
My children and say, hey, you know, if you're gonna
do it, you better be serious about it. Don't do
it just for no money, don't do it just for
just for fun. But you got to do it for
the deep love of it. And when I say love,
I'm talking about that unfailing love. I'm talking about that
you know, when when it hurts, when you don't feel
like doing it no more, when you tired, when you
(28:28):
don't feel like showing up for people, when you don't
feel like performing, when you're having a bad day, when
somebody done piss you off right before, or saying something
to throw you off.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
You still got to get up there and share your gift.
If you can still do it and not think or
blink twice, then do it.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Well.
Speaker 5 (28:47):
My question is why didn't you share all of that
amazing advice with your dog?
Speaker 3 (28:50):
You just let your dog go out there?
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Can we still talking about Sam with the Lord?
Speaker 3 (28:56):
We appreciate you for joining us.
Speaker 6 (28:57):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
That's not my mass, that is not, that is not.
I don't like him.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
I don't like him.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
I like I don't asked the question why didn't the
dog get the same dog?
Speaker 1 (29:07):
You know what?
Speaker 4 (29:07):
I was there the conference Sam at all times, like
I I loved Sam.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
I brushed him often.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
I fed him a bearded collie.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
I don't know what that is.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
You don't exactly.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
He was a rare dog, rare breed and was like
he had loving eyes, friendly eyes, beautiful brown eyes.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Gorgeous dog.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
Hey listen, he did his thing, honestly. He popped off
and then my brother popped off.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
He's in the room right now. Shout out to Gama
Lucky Geo Productions.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
He played uh in the movie Challenger with Angela. I
have to say it right, Auntie Angela, Angela Bassett or
Bessett and also Joe Martin.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
So I was like third.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
In the family to really do anything with my life.
I was the one sitting in the trailer, mad and
jealous of questions about the dog, right because he wants
to you know what, I'm gonna call after.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Now we're going back.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
You know what I'm saying, Rest in peace, Sam.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
I love you.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Around.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Look around, y'all to see what's that? What's that?
Speaker 4 (30:21):
What's the graveyard dog movie? No, not our dogs, the
scary one cemetery military. No.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
I start thinking about saying, how did.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
We get to the day, how did we talk?
Speaker 1 (30:32):
How did we get here?
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Thank you for joining us?
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Like you can we Please watch the movie, y'all.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
I thought my husband dog was dead. Saturday. I thought
my husband's dog was dead. No, I thought my wife
was dead.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
Yes, eight seven Central Saturday, y'all just watch the movie.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
If your girl in there looking all the way crazy,
just know that.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
It's a lifetime movie.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
It's a lifetime movie.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
Saturday, August third, I thought my husband's wife was dead.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
I know it's a long title, but please watch.
Speaker 6 (31:01):
It is very intriguing.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Like you said, it makes you want to be like, okay, thank.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
You, Jess and blessings to you and your the rest
of your pregnancy. I hope baby shows up soon and
on time and healthy and blessed and favored in Jesus'
name so much.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
Yeah, all right, LaToya luck it. It's the Breakfast Club.
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Wake that ass up in the morning.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
The Breakfast Club.
Wake that ass up in the morning.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
The Breakfast Club Morning, everybody in stevej Envy just hilarious.
Charlamagne the guy.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
We are the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
We got a special guest in the building. She has
a new movie premiere on Saturday, August third. I thought
my husband's wife was dead.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Ladies and gentlemen, LaToya Luckett.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
Morning, I'm up, go bless me with another day.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
I'm up. I love this hair. Thank you, yes, thank you.
It's so good to hear your voice and see everybody. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (00:33):
You know, I keep looking at the title of this
movie and I just can't figure out what it's about.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
You know what, I thought the same thing when I
read the script. It's like what Actually it was intriguing.
It's like, here, what is this really about? And I
guess I'll go into that.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
My character Victoria, I'll start there.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Vicky was presumed dead and when she shows back up,
she just reaks habit.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
So she shows back up to.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Her current husband's home and it's greeted by his new wife.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
I'll say that.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Current husband or ex husband, but current that's why you
gotta watch the movie.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, So they she shows up to.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Her current husband's home and meets his new wife five years.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
I mean, in real life, would you be upset if
your man moved on.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
If if he thought that I was presumed dead. I No,
I wouldn't be upset about that. I wouldn't be upset
about that. I mean because obviously life goes on, and
I wouldn't want to I wouldn't want to make him
feel like, you know, he can't move on with his life,
he you know, can't find love again.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
I think that's a bit unfair.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I don't think I could as a man unless I
knew for sure. No, I don't think I could. There
was no body. Yeah, I would have to know for sure.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Yeah, that's the thing.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
That's why you gotta watch the movie, because this is
a different it's different something that it depends on the situation.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
It does depend on the situation.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Now, if I if if my you know, my signific
and other passed on and this wasn't the case, then no,
I'm not gonna, you know, say he can't marry or
not go in peace knowing that he would probably remarry
in the next couple of years.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Do you feel like Toy came back a little two entitles?
Speaker 1 (02:15):
No, no, oh no, not at all. No, she came
back to get what was hers abstely well deserved.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I mean you were talking to I mean you.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Were talking life insurance policy, you were talking everything that
was in that house.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Run me. Yeah, it was that, and I ain't good
to see you. Run me my fund.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Oh no, no, no, no, we got to And I think,
you know, I do see both sides.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
You know, I understand that they probably thought, Okay, we
can move on with our lives.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
We can invest here, we can invest there. But I
think obviously when she shows back up, it's like, Okay,
this does belong to her, this came from her father,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Is this really my I'm gonna at that point say.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Okay, whatever we gotta do to fix this, and whatever
makes you comfortable, because obviously you've probably.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Been through some things. However we can help. I'm here
for it.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
But I don't I don't necessarily know if she was
greeted with that energy.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
It's hard to talk about the movie.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
And just spoiling it because that's exactly And don't be
the watcher that watches for thirty.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Seconds and be like, okay, what's next?
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Let me, No, you have to be invested in this
movie because it's not It's not a slow movie movie
at all. As a matter of fact, it's gonna catch
It's gonna catch you immediately. But I feel like in
order for you to really get into it, you have
to put some things down, sit there and actually watch engage,
and then I think your mind is gonna be blown
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by the.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
End of the movie. You have a little crazy to
play this character.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
See, I have to tap into something.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
You tapped into something.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
But the thing about being an actor you can't judge
the character. So I couldn't go into this thing saying, well,
Toya wouldn't do that, or uh wla, Toya really say that?
Or I can't do that. So I and the reason
I decided to play this characters because I felt her
story deserve to be told. And there are people out
here not going through something as extreme as this, but
people that are maybe suffering in silence or you know,
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they feel they're being treated unfairly in the marriage or
any kind of relationship and they don't.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Have the guts to speak up about it. So I
enjoy playing roles, you know, like this, And I wanted
to feel stretched. I wanted to. This was something that
was out of the ordinary for me. I've played the
well to do wife who has it all together. No,
I wanted.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
I got in there and I was like, strip me down,
I want to look absolutely crazy. And when I was
sending photos from set to like my family members.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Like, okay, wait, let me show up. Where are you at?
Because you look nuts?
Speaker 2 (04:46):
You ever got that crazy in a real relationship?
Speaker 3 (04:48):
You have at all had to get a little crazy?
Speaker 1 (04:51):
You know what's so funny? At the airport just yesterday?
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Oh you got crazy yesterday.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
I was looking I didn't get crazy yesterday. I was
looking through my phone for something and I saw that
I had stored like a side.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Chick's number for my ex boyfriend and my phone. I
was like, why do I still have this?
Speaker 3 (05:09):
You forgot to call her?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I never called her. Yeah, but why do I even
have this in here?
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Because you wanted to call it?
Speaker 4 (05:15):
It was just a just in case, just in case,
but I had to have a little bit of offness.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
It was a little bit of something. Does that mean
it's been there? Maybe before? Wait, I'm gonna say two
thousand and seven.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Jesus.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
That's why I was like, why is I know I've
had several phones since this.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Did you feel like? Just texted her and like, are
you still with him? I just want to know, you know, did.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
They work out for you? It did not? It did not.
He is no.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
I don't think he's the settling type. But I just
feel like I had to have a little bit of
some off that means you off. Why did I have
it though?
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Because you wanted to call her and see what was
going on? Woman? The woman I'm just calling you.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
I had the I was ready to go for the
woman to woman conversation, right, but I didn't even But
I'm also the type that I'm like, I'm not even
gonna give you that type of energy, Like, okay, if
I'm not going to be in no competition for anybody.
So if you want and if he want you, boy
me gotcha. You know y'all have that.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
But did you erase the number?
Speaker 1 (06:16):
I did not. I should go and handle that.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
If she's a well known side check you never know
she's not.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
She was very and after at the end of the day,
me and her probably could have been friends. She's super sweet,
quiet to herself. You know it's about this.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Get a whole profile check on her. She's a virgo.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Social Security and number is you know, no, no, I did. Yeah,
we can off that. But yeah, yeah, I thought about
that last night.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
Now, not to give away too much of the movie,
but would the money that you were old make up
for everything that happened to you?
Speaker 4 (06:54):
No? Okay, oh no, this woman was terrible. Okay, oh
this was It was awful. Like I can't even begin
to describe the things that she went through. She went
through some things. So no, money, money doesn't make up
for it. But I mean it's the best they can do.
I mean they you can't make up for time. You
can't get time back.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
And she lost what six years? Six years and get
that time back.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
You know, there were things that she wanted to do
in her life. She was you know, she wanted to
have children, she wanted to, you know, do things with
her business.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
All these she can't get that time back. Yeah, you
can't buy that time.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Just because I saw you schooling somebody, who was who you?
The dog asked in just no, no.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
It was nice.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
She's trying to eat in the living room but sweeding there.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
So I told the glor in the kitchen, okay, but
you had a question. She got this baby bout to
drop fi.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
O.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
Look, what I love about the movie is that you
actually played it well. Vicki or Tory goes through yeah right, both,
like all the traumas like losing her parents early and
then being kidnapping, almost killed and all of that. What
did you do, Like, what were your methods to get
into this role?
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Because you said you had to tap in, but that's.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
All you said.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Can you expound on it?
Speaker 6 (08:10):
Like, what what are some things that you that you
had to do to get ready for this?
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Because this is a pretty serious.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Role, very very very I did like do some research
and look up things on because I didn't get the chance.
I really wanted to go and sit with some women
who would even if they were shelters, like to talk
to women who had been through abusic or you know,
domestic violent relationships. I've known people that had experienced that before.
(08:41):
But I did, you know, read up on things like that,
you know, kidnappings, that's that's a lot.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
It's a whole whole lot.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
It's it's it's something you actually have to I'm sure
experience in order to really yeah, tap in like truly.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Happened to it.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
But honestly, I just went into it, not judging it,
allowing myself to feel those moments when we did the
kidnapping scenes, when we did the stuff in the forest
or whatever, like I was afraid, Like we were shooting
those scenes at night.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
I'm a scared cat.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
I don't even watch scared commercials like very real. I'm
it's very real. So I allowed myself to feel that fear.
I allowed myself to, you know, feel like, Okay, I
don't know what's gonna happen next, what you know, even
though cameras were rolling, I knew hom Hee was gonna.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Push, you know, pop out the bushes.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
I still, in that moment, allowed myself to feel. There
was a scene I did in the bathroom. I'm a
whole germaphobia, Like I'm a for real I take for real.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Bath and move your hands off that desk. Then I
don't do that to it. We wipe it down before,
we wipe it down before you got you wipe it
down before even though he is, even though he is
that type, even microphone get close to it, we wipe
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it down. We wipe it down before anybody comes in there.
I read right here. One of our producers wipes it down.
We wipe it down, but.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
We can't get no chlorox.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
He wipes it down with cloroxes.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Now I'm just okay.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
So here's the thing I had to do, y'all. A
scene on a public bathroom floor.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
No, sure did, did you have the cooties?
Speaker 5 (10:22):
No?
Speaker 1 (10:22):
And guess what he was a men's bathroom. No, yeah,
I thought, And they kept saying, we cleaned it, you know,
we put bleach on the floor. It's the whole thing.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
I said, Oh no, no, no, no, I need to actually
see somebody get down there and scrub because that's gross.
And I had to lay on a bathroom floor, and
I just allowed myself to feel all the eishness of
that moment, and I just put it into the scene.
There was a scene where I had to do in
the forest in this I don't even know what it was, win,
(10:53):
a bagel, whatever it was, but it the smells the
quiet of the moment, because because just imagine being hell
captive somewhere for six years and it's quiet, nobody's hearing
your screens, you talking to yourself, You're doing all kinds
of things Like I allowed myself to feel a little
out of my mind, and I I just allowed myself
(11:15):
to go there. And that's what I think made those
scenes so wonderful and believable, in my opinion, is because
I really just allowed myself to step outside of myself
and be uncomfortable.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
How you come back, That's where That's where the process was.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
It was being able to snap out of that and
leave all of those emotions on set. That was the
hardest part, like going back to your room and not
carrying that because even with some of the emotional scenes,
I had to tap into some of my own traumas.
And there were so many times where the cameras would
stop rolling and they would yell cut, and I would
be crying for another thirty minutes because I was still
(11:57):
there and still shook, and still could feel all of
the those feelings. And I said, Okay, okay, you're doing
your work today. You're doing your work today, because if
I'm having to call my therapist after a scene, that
means I've really tapped into something that I thought I
was probably over.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
I promise you I was thinking that because I always
wonder if you're a person that that's doing the work,
and we all know healing is not a linear journey,
right but if you're doing the work and you know,
you do make some steps forward to where you're getting
to a closer place of being healed.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
But then you got to go do a movie for
three months and like kind of trauma dump.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Yes, I'm away from my kids, I'm away from everything
that I know, Like I it really that quiet is.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
That's what bothered me the most.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
I'm so used to being in a home full of
you know, kids and all kinds of things going on,
and to be by myself and still that's when I
was like, Okay, maybe I'm maybe I need.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
To dig a little deeper into things.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Yeah, And I was okay with that, But that's where
the I'm honestly not even y'all talking about it right now,
I'm wanting to cry or I'm feeling those emotions again.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
And would you do anole like this?
Speaker 4 (13:11):
I would, because I do feel like sometimes people are
scared to play roles like this. They don't want to
be ugly on camera. They don't want people to see
that ugly cry. They don't want people to see them, you.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Know, outside of glam and nah like that.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
That's why I love being an actress and outside of
you know, music, it's because I want people to see.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
All sides of first of all, LaToya.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
But also I truly want to speak for women. I
really want to be the best representative I possibly can.
And if there's a woman out there that is going
through something like Victoria has gone through, I just I
think her story.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Needs to be told.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Yeah, I always wonder.
Speaker 6 (13:57):
I was asking them because she I'm sat outside of music.
Would you say that your love for actings are passion
love for music? Because I know music is your number
one passion.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
That's it is it is, But I mean, it's like
asking which one is your favorite child.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
They're both gifts given by God, and it's like I
love that He has allowed me and giving me a
platform to be able to share them.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
And that's I can't. I can't say which one I
love the most.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Did you did you always love acting? Or it was
one of those things where music was your love and
he was like, let me try this, and you fell
in love with it.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
I know, I just fell into acting. I would do
school plays as a kid.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
We all did which one but.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
Pinocchio, my dog played and he played Sandy and Annie.
That's funny you say that but yes, dog, my dog,
My dog got cast to play Sandy and Annie and
a well Miller out door theater in Houston, Texas.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Like that's a big thing.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Paid.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
I think my parents probably got it. I don't know
what with the funds for that.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
I don't know who got paid the dog. I mean
the food stayed the same, so he didn't get.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
No extra treat. Dog got rested soul Sam, yeah, he.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Or Peter.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
I don't know the baby got paid. I don't know
if you know what.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
I asked my mom and dad later on about okay,
But I fell into acting.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
I was actually doing UH.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
I was on the road with a place that was
my first time really doing uh, anything to do with acting,
And I got a call from an agency, Paradigm Agency,
and they asked to take a meeting. They sent me
on my first audition. My first audition was for Preacher's Kid.
I got cast it as it was.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
A smaller role.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
And then I think a week before they actually started production,
they asked me to would be okay with taking the
lead and I didn't think.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Twice I got on a plane in Atlanta and here
we are.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
I always wondered how it was life.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Uh, in discreet different now from when you first started,
because it feels like a whole new world.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Whole new world, a whole new world.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
I mean, you gotta think I started when I was
twelve years old. We were singing everywhere, I mean in
front of grocery stores, on planes, anywhere that our voices
could be heard, talent shows.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
The grind was different and there was no like.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
I feel like, everything's happens a lot faster now. Of course,
we have social media platforms. People can post their music, YouTube,
all these sound cloud, all these things that wasn't available
to us. So we depended on local news. We dependent
on just you know, local talent shows, the hot local
producers to produce our records, and.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
The grind was a lot tougher.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
I feel like the barrier, the barrier of entry was
tougher too.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
First of all, the main goal was to get a
record deal. Now you don't really even need that, you
know what I mean. So if you got your record deal,
oh you was on you know, or to even get
the attention.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
If you think back in.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
The day, the you had to get a manager first.
So getting a manager was like the big deal before
our time. And then to get a producer to recognize
you so that they would produce your album.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
It was so many huge steps that you had to
take before you got your big opportunity.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
And that's why I think like once you got that
big opportunity you.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
It was it was a different feeling. You didn't take
it lightly. You showed up, showed up. We know how
to show up on time. We showed up ready the
live performances.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
We was giving it all. I mean, you had to
be able to sing, act and dance when we was
coming up. You had to have all of the things.
And I think now you know, it's just a little different.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
It's no, I'm not saying that you Honestly, folk got to.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Like you for some you could line. But would you
want your kids to do it? Would you want your
kids to be in this industry?
Speaker 1 (18:00):
You know what I wouldn't. I wouldn't say don't.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
I would.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
I would share my experiences with them and say, hey, honey,
this ain't for the week, and don't do it.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Don't just do it for money.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Why you say you wouldn't, I wouldn't because I know
mentally the things that you have to go through.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
I saw a lot I've seen a whole whole lot
good and bad.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
In my time in this entertainment industry, and I know
that I had to become a different type of person
hart I mean not I've never hardened my heart towards anybody.
But you have to have a very strong mentality to
be in this industry and unwavering in your faith in
(18:47):
so many other things.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
You have to stay true to yourself.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
And I think that nowadays, especially with you know, the
new generation, somebody leave a bad comment on Instagram and
they ready to be done, you know what I mean,
And you can't have you can't be that fragile.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Now you said your faith tested, what was the worst test.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
That you had to overcome or what was the worst
thing that you've seen without.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Saying I mean, I'm saying some things, you know. I mean,
of course I had my experience which we went through
that as children.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
So thank God, whoa.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
You know, with having to go through even just not
being having friendships kid friendships like we started at twelve,
some of us started at nine. So to lose a
best friend or not you know, have that communication with
them anymore, and for that to be such a major
chaine shift in your life to be able to have
to deal with that. And back then, like therapists weren't in,
(19:52):
we didn't have a therapist to walk us through a
transition like that. So it was basically I think for me,
the grace of God that he was able to put
angels in my life to help guide me into you know,
the next phase of my life. And I don't know
how many people would have been able to survive that.
(20:12):
H And also, you know, you see greed. You see
greed in this industry a lot. You see people caring
about you one day. And this is not me speaking
on my experience, but you know, people love you one
day and the next day's well, I don't even know
their name who And you got to just be a
different kind of person to deal with that.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
I was because you said, you know, you can't be
too fragile, and you did kind of touch on them.
You said there was no therapist back then, But even
back then, y'all had to be fragile too. So if
what I for, those people are walking y'all through you
to and I'm sure you did crack.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
What I mean. I mean, here's the cool part.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
Like there wasn't like a shade room or media takeout
to see the cracking. Like I was able to actually
do have my my feelings and my mess ups in
my emotions in my the comfort of.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
My home until you want. He was trying top there
was one, it was.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
But Wendy didn't have She ain't had nothing to say
about me, thank god.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
And I was.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
I was just able to heal and go through everything
that I needed to go through without a camera in
my face or a blog finding out or something like that.
And I remember when everything first happened, I was in
my bedroom listening to the local radio station and they
started talking about it, and I was alone in my room,
seventeen eighteen years old, and I just remember putting the
(21:29):
sheets over my head.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
Up.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Yeah, I'm sure that's got to be like frustrating to
constantly hear about because it's like.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
They didn't that didn't go away for a while. It
didn't go away and it and it's.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Like having a for real relate. It's a divorce.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
It's a major divorce and seeing your partner move on
and be successful and folk love them, and it's you know,
and here's the part, like I am glad that that
situation happened because one.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
I was able to.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
I'm a pre PK, but I got to know God
on a whole other level, you know what I mean.
My relationship with God changed. I also became confident in myself.
Had I not, you know, gone through that, I wouldn't
have become a solo artist.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
I wouldn't have been able to.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
I didn't even feel that I was even ready to
move on or be a part of this industry. After
that happened and God allowed the opportunity for me to
get back in the studio.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Then I got a record, Then I got a record deal.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Then I started performing, and I was having like major
breakdowns before even going live on stage because I was like,
I'm up here by myself.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
I'm up here by myself, Like what am I going
to do?
Speaker 4 (22:43):
But had I not gone through those things, I don't
think I would be as confident as I am today.
I don't think I would believe in my voice the
way that I do today. I don't think that, you know,
I would have even said, Okay, I'm going to expand
and believe in God to take on this new career
as an actress. I probably just would have stayed in.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
My comfort zone. So I'm glad a.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Question because you said something just not that made me
think about it.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
You know, you said, you're watching everybody going to have
tremendous success, right, But when you're in a group, like
a Destiny's child, I would think even at a young age,
you kind of knew who was going to be the
breakout star, Like you knew like did they tell did
they tell.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
All of y'all that all of y'all was going to
be breakouts us?
Speaker 1 (23:25):
No? I mean we are.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
It was a team player of mentality, So I don't
think any of any of us at that time were thinking.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Someone was gonna go solo.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
It was about the group group, and we were groomed
to have that group mentality. But I mean, come on,
you hit that girl, open her mouth. It's different, and
I'm not gonna sit up here and compare myself or
go well, you know, she doesn't deserve more opportunities.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
First of all, she brought me in the group. She
showed up to school and showed me the T shirt
and asked me, you know, to audition for her.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Dad, And she said, you want to be a child
of Destiny.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
She did not say that because that was not the
name of the group called Girls Time at the time,
and uh, you know, she said, you know what you
want to you want to audition for my dad? And
I said absolutely, And she gave me the biggest break
of my life. Wow.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
I will always be grateful for her.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
I will always admire her for her talents and her
her this I don't I don't think I've ever met
someone who works harder than Beyonce Zelle Knows.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
That is not her name anymore. It's Beyonce Knows Carter
and I am.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
I am so proud of everything that she's done and
to even say that I was a part of a
chapter of her life and and a part of such
a phenomenal group.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Shout out to all the.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
Girls of the Children, Kelly, Beyonce, LaTavia, Michelle. I love
y'all all, Dearly, Happy birthday, Michelle, Happy birthdaysh but.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
I I I'm grateful. You'll never hear ugly work.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
I just had a reunion earlier year.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
We were in the same room for the first time
ever and it was a I really still can't wrap
my head around that moment because we I've all been
around all of them individually over the you know, the
past few years, but having us all in the same
room at the same time with all our different energies.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Was kind of like, hey, okay.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
You know we were you know, Mom's wives, all the things, and.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
We were talking more about that, and then we prayed together,
we hugged, cried, and.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
People always would ask is there any possibility of a
reunion tour, reunion song.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
I'd be down reunion show. I would love something like that.
Who would it?
Speaker 4 (25:47):
But it's uh, if if the opportunity presented itself, I
would welcome it.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Yeah, I saw you earlier this year. You said that
created a wonderful space.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
What she did, she really really did, and it was
it was so cute when she when she came off stage,
she was on her cart, her and Jay and she
dang hopped that off that cart while it was still
moving to come in and embrace us and give us
a hug.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
And she's like, yes, girl, that's outfit.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
Dah dah dah.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
You know immediately we went first of all to watch
her go from doing was that a three hour show?
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (26:23):
It was it three hours? Okay, it was three hours,
three hour show? Go backstage.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
I don't know how the baby switched into that hoodie
so quick that black hoodie outfit got on the cart
with her husband. Immediately that energy presented itself. Okay, she's
gone right into wife mode. And then she hops off
the cart and the children just run and I said, okay,
she she didn't even have time to woo saw. She
goes right back into being a mom, you know. And
(26:50):
then we're there and there's this big new moment for her.
I'm like, how is she taking all this on? And
I at that moment wanted to go, girl, did you.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Have you had ten? If somebody bring up some water,
some lemon, you need some towels. She didn't really get
to have that. She just went with the flow.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
But it was beautiful to see her come off the
stage entertaining I don't know how many people over seventy
five thousand people, and go straight into making sure she
was present for her daughters who were present there, you know,
and that just speaks to who she is, it really does.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
I know you got to wrap, but I do have
one last question, because you said you wouldn't want your
kids in the business.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
I said that what I had said chall was I
wouldn't say don't be in the business, but what I
would do is share my experience, and I would say,
you know, it's not for the week. And also, I'm
a person that feels like God doesn't take you through
things for nothing. And I love to share my testimony.
I love to share things that I've been through so
(27:53):
that it will hopefully be a learning experience for somebody else.
And also show somebody, hey, even though you might be
going through a storm right now, there's light of the
end of the tunnel. It might be for real, might
be okay, you might come out of this thing all right.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
So I would share that with.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
My children and say, hey, you know, if you're gonna
do it, you better be serious about it. Don't do
it just for no money, don't do it just for
just for fun. But you got to do it for
the deep love of it. And when I say love,
I'm talking about that unfailing love. I'm talking about that
you know, when when it hurts, when you don't feel
like doing it no more, when you tired, when you
(28:28):
don't feel like showing up for people, when you don't
feel like performing, when you're having a bad day, when
somebody done piss you off right before, or saying something
to throw you off.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
You still got to get up there and share your gift.
If you can still do it and not think or
blink twice, then do it.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Well.
Speaker 5 (28:47):
My question is why didn't you share all of that
amazing advice with your dog?
Speaker 3 (28:50):
You just let your dog go out there?
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Can we still talking about Sam with the Lord?
Speaker 3 (28:56):
We appreciate you for joining us.
Speaker 6 (28:57):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
That's not my mass, that is not, that is not.
I don't like him.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
I don't like him.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
I like I don't asked the question why didn't the
dog get the same dog?
Speaker 1 (29:07):
You know what?
Speaker 4 (29:07):
I was there the conference Sam at all times, like
I I loved Sam.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
I brushed him often.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
I fed him a bearded collie.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
I don't know what that is.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
You don't exactly.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
He was a rare dog, rare breed and was like
he had loving eyes, friendly eyes, beautiful brown eyes.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Gorgeous dog.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
Hey listen, he did his thing, honestly. He popped off
and then my brother popped off.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
He's in the room right now. Shout out to Gama
Lucky Geo Productions.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
He played uh in the movie Challenger with Angela. I
have to say it right, Auntie Angela, Angela Bassett or
Bessett and also Joe Martin.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
So I was like third.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
In the family to really do anything with my life.
I was the one sitting in the trailer, mad and
jealous of questions about the dog, right because he wants
to you know what, I'm gonna call after.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Now we're going back.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
You know what I'm saying, Rest in peace, Sam.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
I love you.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Around.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Look around, y'all to see what's that? What's that?
Speaker 4 (30:21):
What's the graveyard dog movie? No, not our dogs, the
scary one cemetery military. No.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
I start thinking about saying, how did.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
We get to the day, how did we talk?
Speaker 1 (30:32):
How did we get here?
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Thank you for joining us?
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Like you can we Please watch the movie, y'all.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
I thought my husband dog was dead. Saturday. I thought
my husband's dog was dead. No, I thought my wife
was dead.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
Yes, eight seven Central Saturday, y'all just watch the movie.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
If your girl in there looking all the way crazy,
just know that.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
It's a lifetime movie.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
It's a lifetime movie.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
Saturday, August third, I thought my husband's wife was dead.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
I know it's a long title, but please watch.
Speaker 6 (31:01):
It is very intriguing.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Like you said, it makes you want to be like, okay, thank.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
You, Jess and blessings to you and your the rest
of your pregnancy. I hope baby shows up soon and
on time and healthy and blessed and favored in Jesus'
name so much.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
Yeah, all right, LaToya luck it. It's the Breakfast Club.
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Wake that ass up in the morning.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
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