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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Wake that ass up in the morning.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Breakfast Club Morning, everybody is DJ Envy just hilarious.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Charlamagne the Guy. We are the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Lola Rosa is here as well, and we got some
special guests in the building.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
We have t She Campbell and Melissa the Operation Aunties.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Yes, oh my god, it's safe to say the term
auntie doesn't bother either one of y'all.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
Click doesn't bother me.
Speaker 5 (00:27):
What about you?
Speaker 6 (00:29):
You know?
Speaker 7 (00:35):
No, no, I mean I'm an aunt in real life,
so you know, it's a respect thing there, and I like.
Speaker 6 (00:40):
That about it. I didn't like at.
Speaker 7 (00:42):
First, like when you're like a certain age and you're
doing a beautiful picture. Oh go ahead, Auntie, it's taking
it away. It's like, okay, okay, an you try to
be sexy. It's light for you girl, you know. I
(01:02):
mean that's what it felt like they were saying. But
I let it go, you know, I mean, because I'm
doing a movie with the titles. I was like, oh, yeah,
it's it's a thing of honors, it is.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
You know. I like being an auntie.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yeah, I do that teacher where you at that since
this weekend I was a friend of mine, was no no,
I ain't doing anything. But he's a little younger, and
he was so when he got back to the hotel
because we went out later.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I didn't go to the show, but he seen you
at the show and he was like.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
I guess I was standing next to I'm like, he
was like, cant He was like, Auntie was looking amazing.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
I said, did you said? I tried to flirt a
little bit, but she was.
Speaker 8 (01:45):
I didn't even over.
Speaker 9 (01:47):
Would you have got I just saw Melissa and Auntie
was looking good.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
I wanted to get a number. Everything we know.
Speaker 6 (01:55):
No, listen, I'm fine with it now, I'm saying.
Speaker 7 (01:57):
At first it was really just used to like take
back what someone was trying to do at a certain age.
Speaker 6 (02:04):
Do you know what I'm saying? But you know what
I'm saying.
Speaker 7 (02:07):
But now it's you know, they're turning it around, like
like you know what I'm saying. So now I think
it's I love being able to be somebody's of course,
you know, so you need a choice.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Somebody, I don't.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Did you complain about the title of the TV or
the movie when you first st Oh.
Speaker 7 (02:22):
God, no, look, work was good, like, oh yeah, I
like the title.
Speaker 6 (02:26):
It's great.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
You know, before we get to the movie, So does
your son love the skits that you do with him?
Speaker 1 (02:32):
One sometime like you embarrassing?
Speaker 4 (02:36):
They absolutely love.
Speaker 10 (02:38):
Like getting there is not fun, like guys y'all want
to post. But once we're in it, we're having so
much fun and it's time for me to like spend
time with my kids. But honestly, I was very, very
like protective of my children, especially the one that's on
the spectrum, and I didn't know whether this would be
a good thing. But once love on the spectrum and
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the way that people.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Embrace them, it just changed everything for me.
Speaker 10 (03:03):
And I was like, well, maybe it'll give him call.
It gives him so much confidence now. It's he's like
he likes when people like recognize him now.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
And he makes he's funny.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
But I'd be like, I edit, you funny, stop playing it.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Stop playing toys.
Speaker 10 (03:17):
Yeah not toys, they're not like but I really enjoy
it now, I'm I love it and he's excited about.
As a matter of fact, we saw Chrisette Michelle at
Essence and she was she It took.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Her a second to come over to me.
Speaker 10 (03:31):
And she was like, I'm such a fan of sence,
and I thought that was so dope. You know, she
had just come out and talked about her own experience
and challenges, and so I thought, Yo, that is so dope.
And we had a wonderful talk about it and what
it's doing for his confidence.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
It's funny say love on the spectrum.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
When I first I didn't know if I if I
should be enjoying watching it or not.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
But it's like it's it's just a different type of show.
I love it.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
What's different about it? Just two people in love.
Speaker 10 (04:02):
But but not what you know what it's different because
of the way that they love. They love They tell
you exactly what they want, and that's how my son is, like,
you know, I just want him to find somebody. That's
some right, we're gonna find somebody. We're gonna put out
a call.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
Well the film that'll here, four Operation Aunties. How was
it working?
Speaker 4 (04:21):
I love working with this.
Speaker 10 (04:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
We're both leaving.
Speaker 7 (04:24):
Yeah, So, I mean we met years and years, so
we just never worked to guy, I love her work
and I love everything she's done in her career.
Speaker 6 (04:31):
So I we just it was like we were a
sister's at birth.
Speaker 10 (04:34):
You know, you know, it was directed by When did
we both know her? I know her, known her since
the nineties, worked on Martin together and everything. But she
I knew I wanted to do it with her because
I've always wanted to work with her.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
And then once she came on, I was like, Oh,
that's icing on it. So it's a it's a it's
a great we had a good movie.
Speaker 10 (04:53):
We had a good time. It's a it's like a
cyber crime comm.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
You're giving you a little bit. It's all the things.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
Yeah, it's all the things.
Speaker 9 (05:03):
And I love how it has like a message basically
basically without telling the movie, y'all are like exposed in
the black market of like sex trafficking and everything. It's
really heavy, heavy in this climate right now.
Speaker 10 (05:15):
It's interesting to see black women in their greatness as well,
like we are intelligent. Yeah, she plays a professor and
a genius and a textus which is nice, so far
from that in that.
Speaker 11 (05:29):
Realm too, And y'all don't run away from those that
that those traits in the movies, like y'all are really strong,
y'all are like how important was that to display on
camera for y'all in this movie?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Well?
Speaker 7 (05:39):
Really important because the whole thing is, oh, I'm not
going away storyline.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
No, no, no, you know.
Speaker 7 (05:45):
We're taking them down, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
So. And not only that, but it was someone I.
Speaker 7 (05:50):
Loved almost got assaulted, so it was like, look we police,
we can't wait, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
So.
Speaker 7 (05:56):
And I had the technology, which I like that part,
like look, I'm still trying to learn how to work
my iPhone. But this character, you know, she was a
tech genius and really smart.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
I love that.
Speaker 7 (06:06):
And then Tasha's a retired detective who comes back. I
just liked that we came together to bring this, bring
these people down.
Speaker 6 (06:13):
So yeah, we had to be strong.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
I mean, Amaya Scott plays her niece.
Speaker 6 (06:17):
So it's really nice, amazing.
Speaker 8 (06:19):
Okay, did you.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Have to develop like any special special rituals or inside
jokes to like build the build the chemistry.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
No, it kind of came.
Speaker 10 (06:28):
She's just clicked funny, and we clicked immediately. We had
one meeting right before we started working.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
And that was it. We knew we were going to.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Have a good time.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Yeah, was it ever any part?
Speaker 9 (06:42):
I mean, because it was it was still like humorous
as well to me, But was it ever challenging because
this is like a real life thing women go through
every day, young women, children, you know.
Speaker 7 (06:53):
Well, Tisha really went there on in one of the
scenes where something happens and then something happens, I can't
get away.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
But that was not a lot of times.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
I was like okay, no, no, no, no, you know what.
Speaker 10 (07:08):
A lot of so I was like, okay, let me
do comedy, and they forget that. I come from a
dramatic place, so I'm able to do a lot of
things in this able to you know, bring the drama
and bring the comedy.
Speaker 7 (07:20):
And and then I and just from my background just
as well as yours, you know, I was like, let's
improv a little bit before we do this scene because
the scene comes in hot. So I was like, let's
improv outside before we go inside and bring it inside,
which really helped drive the scene because we were already
in the middle of something coming in.
Speaker 6 (07:39):
So we just played, you know what I mean, And
it was just easy. Yeah, it was real easy.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Y'all get stuck on the way movies are released now,
or do y'all not mind? Like as far as streamings released,
there's Netflix boxes, the y'all get stuck on that or
not too much.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
I don't you know, the work is the work.
Speaker 7 (07:56):
Yeah, yeah, I mean it's something you work out your contract.
It's like if it's not going to be released and
you know in a theater, you know whatever. I mean,
it's not we're not doing Mission impossible right now. But
you know what I mean, it makes a difference when
it's those kind of films. I'm sure that's why they
beef about that. But you know, we got to go
with the time. I mean, that's just what happens.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Yeah, you got it.
Speaker 10 (08:17):
You just have to evolve, even you know, incorporating social media.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
It's your own publishist, You're your own publish It's very true.
You have to do it. You have to evolve. And
that's the one thing that I know, you know, getting
being in this business for four years now, you have
to continue.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Four years.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
I've been doing this for playing thinkings.
Speaker 10 (08:43):
No, but doing it for as long as I have.
You have to reinvent yourself and reinvent yourself and you have.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
To go with the times. So you can't if you
fight it, that's your ass.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
But you're also timeless though, Like when you see people
like Costan and Drewski at the BT flipping out because
they saw you. That lets you know how timeless you are.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Yeah, thank you for that, Thank you for that.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
Grab it with you. Since before Little Shop of Horror.
Speaker 9 (09:05):
No, I used to watch your poets, Gina did it
first yet period, always been afan, So I love, I
love even seeing you on this film as well. Is
it was it purpose though, right? Like was it on
purpose that y'all really didn't go into Amaya's character?
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Right?
Speaker 10 (09:22):
So that was on purpose, on purpose that we didn't
call her tran in the movie. Yeah, yes, and she
talks about it herself, but and it's better when she
does because she loves the fact that she was just
a person in the film and not anything else. So yeah,
she purposefully did that. Yeah, wrote that, wrote it that way.
Tj Alee wrote it that way.
Speaker 9 (09:43):
And I love that even in the film, like she
has said, my my aunt has been with me since
the beginning, you know what I mean. So it was
good that it was a level of support and love
there and just bringing awareness to that, you know what
I mean, because that's absolutely relatable.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (09:56):
Yeah, there's a lot of sisterhood moments throughout the movie,
but in real life, I was watching or reading something
about Gabrielle Union at the Black Film Festival in Florida.
She talked about how you saved her life because you're
just because of your relationship.
Speaker 8 (10:10):
And you saw her, you really saw her.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
It wasn't even that.
Speaker 10 (10:13):
It was more that when I first saw her coming
into the business, I knew she was going to be great.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
And so in seeing.
Speaker 10 (10:20):
That, I said, listen, gab this business had got a
lot of ups and downs. So let me pay for
your first ten therapy sessions.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Wow, so bad.
Speaker 10 (10:32):
You can get yourself into a good place and be
in a safe space because there's it's ugly out there.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
It's uglier than you think.
Speaker 10 (10:40):
And I just wanted her to be I just wanted
to support however I could because I knew she was
going to be great. What was this the nineties, early
two thousands, Wow, And it was before she was even big.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
She was making a name for herself. She was out there.
Speaker 10 (10:56):
She was not the Gabrielle Union that we know of today,
but she was still doing.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
A lot of stuff.
Speaker 10 (11:02):
And I when I see somebody that is going to
be in this business, it's just it's a lot. It
can be a lot, and y'all see the ups and downs.
Y'all talk about it every single day. I just love
to support my sisters in this, you know. And I
grew up like that with Tashina and you know, you
know that's how we are.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
But who introduce you to therapyeahayah? What got you into
that headspace? Who told you? You know it?
Speaker 3 (11:28):
You should go to therapy because this business is hard,
Because that's a great.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Nobody told me that. I had to figure that out.
And that was in the nineties. I started figuring out.
Speaker 10 (11:36):
Oh you know what, I'm sorry, let me take that back.
It was my acting coach. Actually his name is Howard Fine.
I started going to him at.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Eighteen years old. We love Howard.
Speaker 10 (11:46):
So Howard was always like, listen, I'm not your therapist.
I think you have to always do two things. You
have to seek therapy because what we do is not
it's not healthy to a certain extent. Like most people,
when you're crying or when you're dealing with certain things,
you stay away from it, you but we embrace it
and we use it for our job.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Right.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
So he said, you have to do therapy and you
have to do.
Speaker 10 (12:11):
Charity work because you have to get outside of yourself
and not look at it like you know, yeah, get
outside of yourself. Yeah, and you're not the end all
be all, and there are things that are bigger than you.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
I agree.
Speaker 10 (12:24):
So that's what he always instilled in me. And so
since eighteen years old, I started going.
Speaker 11 (12:28):
To thing that's amazing because she talked about that too,
just like from you, learning how to decentralize herself to
give to other people.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 8 (12:35):
People don't just do that for no reason like that.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
No.
Speaker 10 (12:37):
I want people to win. Yeah, yeah, I want people
to win. I want us aw to win, you know,
and it may not be on it may be on
different levels, but you know, let's do it the most
healthy way we possibly can.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
Now, oh, I'm sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
No.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
I was just gonna say, so, how did that help you?
Because you know, you went through a divorce and if
I right correctly, this says you had seven dollars left
your name and that.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
That's that's true.
Speaker 10 (13:00):
Actually, no, the story was I had twenty one dollars
in my pocket and a knife cost seven dollars and
I wanted to pay for the knife, but it was
Christmas and I had a choice to try to get
some extra toys from my kids at the.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Write eight or something.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
So how did that work that you had done early
on on yourself? Help you in that moment?
Speaker 10 (13:24):
Well, I believe that I always had really good relationships,
and I forged.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Really good relationships.
Speaker 10 (13:31):
And the one thing that I held on to right
there was what God gave me. And what God gave
me was my talent and my ability to reach people
and to have good relationships. It was the one thing
nobody could take away. And so with therapy, that's how
I and really good friends and weeding out all the others.
I really I'm here today and I'm really happy.
Speaker 9 (13:53):
Wow you look happy, and yeah you come and glowing beautiful?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Yes, are you back up?
Speaker 11 (13:59):
Now?
Speaker 3 (13:59):
I didn't Melissa have.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
I believe it was.
Speaker 8 (14:07):
But with Flowers, y'all got great publicist.
Speaker 7 (14:10):
Yes you want to pay for my therapy, I'm open
to that.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
Okay.
Speaker 11 (14:24):
I have a question for you though, because I know
during that time that he was just talking about with
the divorce you got, you were going through a lot
of financially. You just talk about that. Right there was
the bankruptcy that you guys finally closed. I think that
was like six months right in your healing journey. Do
things like that, like closing the case and being able
to move on, actually help you to move on or no,
because you still have to.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
I think it's a lifetime of stuff.
Speaker 10 (14:43):
And I don't really understand how we went through the
bankruptcy honestly, but that I was kind of separated from it.
So I don't really know how we got through it.
But it really is just taking yourself up out of
it and keep it moving forward. I just move forward.
(15:03):
I got kids, man, I got two kids with one
has ADHD, the other one got autism, two separate issues,
and I just keep moving forward.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
You still got a career, you still got Oh yeah,
you know.
Speaker 8 (15:16):
I can't look backwards.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
I can't.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
Yeah, So I just don't.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
It has to be difficult too, because since you're such
a celebrity, such a face on television, people don't understand
what you go through.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
They be like, nah, she got it. I just see
she got it. I just seen another replay, like, yeah,
I know you have to deal with that. That had
to be difficult.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Not really, I don't really pay attention to the crowd noise.
I can't. I can't afford it.
Speaker 10 (15:38):
And the way that I look at life's like a
football game, Like whoever's on the field running with me
and got that ball with me? Or running the field
with me, I'm good. I don't pay attention to the
cheerleader's those the fake friends. I don't pay attention to
the crowd noise because they're there. That's their job to
boom and to cheer. So I can't pay attention to
any of it. I have to just block it out
(15:59):
and keep moving forward.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
I love that.
Speaker 9 (16:01):
This is my last question about the movie. I know
you got to go got press and stuff. Look how
did y'all find out or decide what roles y'all were
going to take? Like how did you know like the
tech roles for you and why you know?
Speaker 7 (16:12):
Like okay, I mean look that was all that was left. No, no, no,
Tita was already signed on, like I feel like, was
it like a year and then it went away and.
Speaker 10 (16:24):
They went away came back then I think Wendy was
busy and then she came back because I was doing
it because Wendy, And once she came back, I was like, okay,
I'll sign on right now.
Speaker 7 (16:35):
So that role was there, so I so I signed
on because Wendy. I knew we did like mis congeniality, yeah,
in the nineties then Tsha, and I was like, Okay, well,
I definitely want to do it because I want to
work with both of them. So yeah, I wasn't like, oh,
I want to play a tech person that has to
say all this stuff that I can't remember.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
But I thought I was interested in.
Speaker 7 (16:53):
It because of that, because I liked, you know, seeing
a woman of color playing this, like, you know.
Speaker 8 (16:58):
She's like brilliant.
Speaker 7 (17:00):
She's like a Steve Jobs, you know what I'm saying,
Like she invented software and you know, and she's like
good at them, you know what I mean everything that
I'm not.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
So I just I like brilliant.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
Executed it.
Speaker 7 (17:13):
I mean, I'm not gonna lie like sometimes that I
had them put.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
To whisperful.
Speaker 7 (17:20):
I'm on air, okay, but you know, like sometimes my
lines had to be because I could not.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
It just wouldn't stick.
Speaker 7 (17:26):
It was just like cryptocurrency, bitcoin, you know, a lot it.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
Was a lot of words that I just had never
used before.
Speaker 7 (17:32):
I don't know anything about that stuff, so I had
to look it up and stuff like that. But you know,
it was hard to remember yeah, but.
Speaker 10 (17:38):
It's still you know, it's still the show is still
rooted in the movie. It's still rooted in story and
hard and it has hard domedy and everything. So I
like that you still get to learn that and see
that there are black women that are justice brilliant.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
Is the taken but the female version of taking? Oh yeah, yes.
Speaker 11 (17:58):
Yes, nue for you because you talk about story, you
open book, you talked about your mommy makeover.
Speaker 8 (18:04):
I did be t words. What was your decision to
open up about that? Why?
Speaker 4 (18:08):
It was the deal that I made with Cosmic Care.
Speaker 10 (18:12):
I sat down with them and I was like, I
have to be honest with my stuff and really, let
me tell you what it actually came up, because sometimes
I just say my kids and I needed a mommy makeover.
But I have sarkitosis or was diagnosed with sarkitosis, which
is a genetic lung disorder, right, And so they put
you on a lot of steroids and after I lost
the weight health in a healthy way. It took a
(18:34):
long time, but it left me with a lot of
extraw meat down there. So I was like, you know what,
it's time for mommy makeover. I got me a nice
tummy tuck.
Speaker 6 (18:41):
I gotta lift.
Speaker 10 (18:46):
So that's why I you know, and I'm I'm an
open book. So I wanted to talk about it because
mommy makeover isn't for everybody, but it was for me
at that moment, and I wanted to feel good about
my mouf.
Speaker 9 (18:56):
And baby said that.
Speaker 11 (19:03):
You also said that you weren't dating right now because
you just it's still the same. Yeah, because the Momi
man car. Look, the friends are trying to stay next
to you at the concert.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
By myself, you.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Want baby hit on me as twenty one year olds anyway,
I want hit.
Speaker 8 (19:19):
It's giving one ways.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Yeah, okay for me, I'm good.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Apps.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
I love this for you, that's right. Yes, I don't
have to talk.
Speaker 8 (19:32):
No, But you said I love the spirit. Is there
a timeline on that for me?
Speaker 10 (19:36):
Like a timeline listen if I need a situation, but
give me a situation ship listen to you know she's
gonna do what she's gonna do.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
But you like to pull out cameras, Oh.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Exactly, that's with them.
Speaker 7 (19:54):
You gotta be careful just even talking to someone on
the phone. You don't know who's recording what, just and
you know what if you don't want somebody to know
something or hears something, just don't say it.
Speaker 6 (20:04):
You know, you really have to be careful these days.
Speaker 7 (20:07):
Everybody that's a new thing. Let me record whoever and
make some money off.
Speaker 6 (20:11):
Of that later.
Speaker 7 (20:12):
Let me just let me just put that in the
library in the vault, and I'm gonna bring it out
ten years later when you ain't got no money.
Speaker 6 (20:18):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 10 (20:19):
My friend told me, she was like, you know, t Shi,
you're not marriage material.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
She said that because she was like, guys.
Speaker 10 (20:36):
Just want to mess with Gina. They don't want to
you know, right now, that's all they see. They want
to be with Gina. They don't want to be with you.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
And I was like, I don't believe that.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Maybe the young boy. I can see the young boy. Yeah,
I can't see nobody.
Speaker 8 (20:54):
Grown you would know better than us.
Speaker 10 (20:55):
So no, they do that, because listen, when people flirt
with me, I get I get nervous anyway, because listen,
let me tell you because I was in a twenty
seven year relationship, marriage committed, So I don't know nothing
about fangled anything.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
So yeah, oh I haven't even my stand up bag.
I'm doing stand up now, time. Yes, I do.
Speaker 10 (21:23):
I talk about something that a moment we had on
the game show.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Yes, I'll tell you.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
What long I want to hear.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
It was funny.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
It was funny. Young boys are all over your Yeah,
I want to see that away from them. I'm not.
Speaker 7 (21:42):
I'm not.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
I am Yes, I'm staying away from it all now.
Speaker 8 (21:46):
On that video you moving them hips and that that
dance video. That environment what dance video? You can see
the video?
Speaker 4 (21:51):
You what happened?
Speaker 8 (21:53):
It was?
Speaker 5 (21:56):
No, you're just dancing, enjoying your time.
Speaker 8 (21:59):
But like you was you was having a good time.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
She was getting it.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
Oh no, that was doing house music.
Speaker 8 (22:04):
Yeah, John, thank you.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Last week.
Speaker 7 (22:11):
Everybody, they just think I'm shelbying real. They just it
won't go away.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
But but.
Speaker 7 (22:19):
They're like scared, but they want it, but they're scared
or they're going to be meeting oh god all the time.
That's the first thing that comes out of there. They're
calling me that shall I be on the street?
Speaker 4 (22:29):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 6 (22:30):
But whenever they meet.
Speaker 7 (22:31):
Me, they're like, oh my god, you're so nice, you
know what I mean. They just expect me to be feisty.
Speaker 6 (22:35):
Yeah, just can't. They can't separate.
Speaker 9 (22:39):
It's the great actress, because that's what that means that part. Look,
speaking of that, had the Burns said that she will
be down for Miss Congeniality three, So would I come
down to you?
Speaker 7 (22:51):
That was one of the best experiences of my career,
and it was very early on and it just shows
like Cassandra Bullock is just the nicest person, and the
people I was working with, they were just all kind
and you know, you don't really we were down there
for like three months, and we were all young, and
we and we all got along and it was such
a nice experience and we had so much fun. But
(23:12):
I would totally want to do that a third one.
I mean, you know, if they come up with a story,
I look, I'm ready all righty, Yeah, it was fun.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
I would love to do that.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
We need that teach you just started watching Martin five
years ago.
Speaker 10 (23:24):
Crazy, yes, because a lot of the millennials and the
gen zs that are just kind of getting to know it,
they quote shit in me. I don't know what the
fuck they're talking about, Like what No.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
But that was like in the nineties. I was thirty
some years ago. But so that you have some like
content that was thirty years ago.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
That's crazy, but like if.
Speaker 10 (23:45):
So that you have content, Like I said, like me
and Tashina, we grew up as Broadway kids, and you're
only as good as your last job, so we don't again,
we don't look backwards, and we don't we're not in
a present. We're always looking at what's the next gig.
So it trained us not to watch our own work.
So I don't watch my own work. My kids never
watched my work unless somebody snuck it to them.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Oh that's why my youngest.
Speaker 10 (24:09):
Calls me Gina. He don't call me mommy. You know
you don't call me mommy. If you call me mommy,
it's something wrong. But that's another reason why I never
watched the Martin Show. But because people kept quoting shit
at me, like my friends. She kept saying, look at
the white shoes, look at the white shoes.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
I was like, what you're talking about. She was like,
that's from Martin.
Speaker 10 (24:27):
Look through a Jerome when look at the WS And
I was like, that was an inside joke that nobody
was supposed to know, because Martin would never let us
see his outfits for jeromea Shanine. And so when he
came through the door, and uh, he was like, look
at the white shoes.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
He was telling me it to Ghena to look at
the white shoes, not our characters.
Speaker 10 (24:46):
But it became like this thing that we didn't know
it was so because they kept quoting stuff at me.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
I started watching it, and it's funny.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
How did you perfect your craft when you didn't observe
your work?
Speaker 10 (24:58):
Oh that's like that's more like like for like football players,
basketball players.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
They do that.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
She said, No, don't play with me. I know, no.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
You kind of just we're under how we're fine. We
have the and Santislavski and all that.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
Yeah, the technical So you never watched my wife and
kids either.
Speaker 10 (25:16):
No, I my kids don't like watching it because they
say I yell at those kids like I yell at them. Okay,
so they're like, I don't know, that's too much. They
look at it like this.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
And I love what you and Melissa had with Operational,
but I really want to see you into sheen to
do some type of of buddy comic. You know what
I'm saying, because it's like nobody.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
Things are have.
Speaker 9 (25:51):
You happen than not talk about nice things that happened okay,
movie movie TV shows.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Okay, all right, are y'all still casting?
Speaker 6 (26:02):
But we are going on some things together.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Okay, you here, Jesse.
Speaker 9 (26:06):
Said, yes, don't bring it back, Yes, okay, don't play
with me.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
I'm not playing with you. I'm not girling. I'm not
playing them.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
There, can I get your time? Still here?
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Here?
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Here?
Speaker 5 (26:22):
Yeah, I'm gonna give you the number, right, Anthony, all.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Right, operation comes out there on eleven. We appreciate for
joining us.
Speaker 10 (26:30):
Yes, thank you, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, wake that ass up
in the morning. The Breakfast Club.
Wake that ass up in the morning.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Breakfast Club Morning, everybody is DJ Envy just hilarious.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Charlamagne the Guy. We are the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Lola Rosa is here as well, and we got some
special guests in the building.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
We have t She Campbell and Melissa the Operation Aunties.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Yes, oh my god, it's safe to say the term
auntie doesn't bother either one of y'all.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
Click doesn't bother me.
Speaker 5 (00:27):
What about you?
Speaker 6 (00:29):
You know?
Speaker 7 (00:35):
No, no, I mean I'm an aunt in real life,
so you know, it's a respect thing there, and I like.
Speaker 6 (00:40):
That about it. I didn't like at.
Speaker 7 (00:42):
First, like when you're like a certain age and you're
doing a beautiful picture. Oh go ahead, Auntie, it's taking
it away. It's like, okay, okay, an you try to
be sexy. It's light for you girl, you know. I
(01:02):
mean that's what it felt like they were saying. But
I let it go, you know, I mean, because I'm
doing a movie with the titles. I was like, oh, yeah,
it's it's a thing of honors, it is.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
You know. I like being an auntie.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yeah, I do that teacher where you at that since
this weekend I was a friend of mine, was no no,
I ain't doing anything. But he's a little younger, and
he was so when he got back to the hotel
because we went out later.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I didn't go to the show, but he seen you
at the show and he was like.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
I guess I was standing next to I'm like, he
was like, cant He was like, Auntie was looking amazing.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
I said, did you said? I tried to flirt a
little bit, but she was.
Speaker 8 (01:45):
I didn't even over.
Speaker 9 (01:47):
Would you have got I just saw Melissa and Auntie
was looking good.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
I wanted to get a number. Everything we know.
Speaker 6 (01:55):
No, listen, I'm fine with it now, I'm saying.
Speaker 7 (01:57):
At first it was really just used to like take
back what someone was trying to do at a certain age.
Speaker 6 (02:04):
Do you know what I'm saying? But you know what
I'm saying.
Speaker 7 (02:07):
But now it's you know, they're turning it around, like
like you know what I'm saying. So now I think
it's I love being able to be somebody's of course,
you know, so you need a choice.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Somebody, I don't.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Did you complain about the title of the TV or
the movie when you first st Oh.
Speaker 7 (02:22):
God, no, look, work was good, like, oh yeah, I
like the title.
Speaker 6 (02:26):
It's great.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
You know, before we get to the movie, So does
your son love the skits that you do with him?
Speaker 1 (02:32):
One sometime like you embarrassing?
Speaker 4 (02:36):
They absolutely love.
Speaker 10 (02:38):
Like getting there is not fun, like guys y'all want
to post. But once we're in it, we're having so
much fun and it's time for me to like spend
time with my kids. But honestly, I was very, very
like protective of my children, especially the one that's on
the spectrum, and I didn't know whether this would be
a good thing. But once love on the spectrum and
(02:59):
the way that people.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Embrace them, it just changed everything for me.
Speaker 10 (03:03):
And I was like, well, maybe it'll give him call.
It gives him so much confidence now. It's he's like
he likes when people like recognize him now.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
And he makes he's funny.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
But I'd be like, I edit, you funny, stop playing it.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Stop playing toys.
Speaker 10 (03:17):
Yeah not toys, they're not like but I really enjoy
it now, I'm I love it and he's excited about.
As a matter of fact, we saw Chrisette Michelle at
Essence and she was she It took.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Her a second to come over to me.
Speaker 10 (03:31):
And she was like, I'm such a fan of sence,
and I thought that was so dope. You know, she
had just come out and talked about her own experience
and challenges, and so I thought, Yo, that is so dope.
And we had a wonderful talk about it and what
it's doing for his confidence.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
It's funny say love on the spectrum.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
When I first I didn't know if I if I
should be enjoying watching it or not.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
But it's like it's it's just a different type of show.
I love it.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
What's different about it? Just two people in love.
Speaker 10 (04:02):
But but not what you know what it's different because
of the way that they love. They love They tell
you exactly what they want, and that's how my son is, like,
you know, I just want him to find somebody. That's
some right, we're gonna find somebody. We're gonna put out
a call.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
Well the film that'll here, four Operation Aunties. How was
it working?
Speaker 4 (04:21):
I love working with this.
Speaker 10 (04:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
We're both leaving.
Speaker 7 (04:24):
Yeah, So, I mean we met years and years, so
we just never worked to guy, I love her work
and I love everything she's done in her career.
Speaker 6 (04:31):
So I we just it was like we were a
sister's at birth.
Speaker 10 (04:34):
You know, you know, it was directed by When did
we both know her? I know her, known her since
the nineties, worked on Martin together and everything. But she
I knew I wanted to do it with her because
I've always wanted to work with her.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
And then once she came on, I was like, Oh,
that's icing on it. So it's a it's a it's
a great we had a good movie.
Speaker 10 (04:53):
We had a good time. It's a it's like a
cyber crime comm.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
You're giving you a little bit. It's all the things.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
Yeah, it's all the things.
Speaker 9 (05:03):
And I love how it has like a message basically
basically without telling the movie, y'all are like exposed in
the black market of like sex trafficking and everything. It's
really heavy, heavy in this climate right now.
Speaker 10 (05:15):
It's interesting to see black women in their greatness as well,
like we are intelligent. Yeah, she plays a professor and
a genius and a textus which is nice, so far
from that in that.
Speaker 11 (05:29):
Realm too, And y'all don't run away from those that
that those traits in the movies, like y'all are really strong,
y'all are like how important was that to display on
camera for y'all in this movie?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Well?
Speaker 7 (05:39):
Really important because the whole thing is, oh, I'm not
going away storyline.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
No, no, no, you know.
Speaker 7 (05:45):
We're taking them down, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
So. And not only that, but it was someone I.
Speaker 7 (05:50):
Loved almost got assaulted, so it was like, look we police,
we can't wait, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
So.
Speaker 7 (05:56):
And I had the technology, which I like that part,
like look, I'm still trying to learn how to work
my iPhone. But this character, you know, she was a
tech genius and really smart.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
I love that.
Speaker 7 (06:06):
And then Tasha's a retired detective who comes back. I
just liked that we came together to bring this, bring
these people down.
Speaker 6 (06:13):
So yeah, we had to be strong.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
I mean, Amaya Scott plays her niece.
Speaker 6 (06:17):
So it's really nice, amazing.
Speaker 8 (06:19):
Okay, did you.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Have to develop like any special special rituals or inside
jokes to like build the build the chemistry.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
No, it kind of came.
Speaker 10 (06:28):
She's just clicked funny, and we clicked immediately. We had
one meeting right before we started working.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
And that was it. We knew we were going to.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Have a good time.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Yeah, was it ever any part?
Speaker 9 (06:42):
I mean, because it was it was still like humorous
as well to me, But was it ever challenging because
this is like a real life thing women go through
every day, young women, children, you know.
Speaker 7 (06:53):
Well, Tisha really went there on in one of the
scenes where something happens and then something happens, I can't
get away.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
But that was not a lot of times.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
I was like okay, no, no, no, no, you know what.
Speaker 10 (07:08):
A lot of so I was like, okay, let me
do comedy, and they forget that. I come from a
dramatic place, so I'm able to do a lot of
things in this able to you know, bring the drama
and bring the comedy.
Speaker 7 (07:20):
And and then I and just from my background just
as well as yours, you know, I was like, let's
improv a little bit before we do this scene because
the scene comes in hot. So I was like, let's
improv outside before we go inside and bring it inside,
which really helped drive the scene because we were already
in the middle of something coming in.
Speaker 6 (07:39):
So we just played, you know what I mean, And
it was just easy. Yeah, it was real easy.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Y'all get stuck on the way movies are released now,
or do y'all not mind? Like as far as streamings released,
there's Netflix boxes, the y'all get stuck on that or
not too much.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
I don't you know, the work is the work.
Speaker 7 (07:56):
Yeah, yeah, I mean it's something you work out your contract.
It's like if it's not going to be released and
you know in a theater, you know whatever. I mean,
it's not we're not doing Mission impossible right now. But
you know what I mean, it makes a difference when
it's those kind of films. I'm sure that's why they
beef about that. But you know, we got to go
with the time. I mean, that's just what happens.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Yeah, you got it.
Speaker 10 (08:17):
You just have to evolve, even you know, incorporating social media.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
It's your own publishist, You're your own publish It's very true.
You have to do it. You have to evolve. And
that's the one thing that I know, you know, getting
being in this business for four years now, you have
to continue.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Four years.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
I've been doing this for playing thinkings.
Speaker 10 (08:43):
No, but doing it for as long as I have.
You have to reinvent yourself and reinvent yourself and you have.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
To go with the times. So you can't if you
fight it, that's your ass.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
But you're also timeless though, Like when you see people
like Costan and Drewski at the BT flipping out because
they saw you. That lets you know how timeless you are.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Yeah, thank you for that, Thank you for that.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
Grab it with you. Since before Little Shop of Horror.
Speaker 9 (09:05):
No, I used to watch your poets, Gina did it
first yet period, always been afan, So I love, I
love even seeing you on this film as well. Is
it was it purpose though, right? Like was it on
purpose that y'all really didn't go into Amaya's character?
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Right?
Speaker 10 (09:22):
So that was on purpose, on purpose that we didn't
call her tran in the movie. Yeah, yes, and she
talks about it herself, but and it's better when she
does because she loves the fact that she was just
a person in the film and not anything else. So yeah,
she purposefully did that. Yeah, wrote that, wrote it that way.
Tj Alee wrote it that way.
Speaker 9 (09:43):
And I love that even in the film, like she
has said, my my aunt has been with me since
the beginning, you know what I mean. So it was
good that it was a level of support and love
there and just bringing awareness to that, you know what
I mean, because that's absolutely relatable.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (09:56):
Yeah, there's a lot of sisterhood moments throughout the movie,
but in real life, I was watching or reading something
about Gabrielle Union at the Black Film Festival in Florida.
She talked about how you saved her life because you're
just because of your relationship.
Speaker 8 (10:10):
And you saw her, you really saw her.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
It wasn't even that.
Speaker 10 (10:13):
It was more that when I first saw her coming
into the business, I knew she was going to be great.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
And so in seeing.
Speaker 10 (10:20):
That, I said, listen, gab this business had got a
lot of ups and downs. So let me pay for
your first ten therapy sessions.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Wow, so bad.
Speaker 10 (10:32):
You can get yourself into a good place and be
in a safe space because there's it's ugly out there.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
It's uglier than you think.
Speaker 10 (10:40):
And I just wanted her to be I just wanted
to support however I could because I knew she was
going to be great. What was this the nineties, early
two thousands, Wow, And it was before she was even big.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
She was making a name for herself. She was out there.
Speaker 10 (10:56):
She was not the Gabrielle Union that we know of today,
but she was still doing.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
A lot of stuff.
Speaker 10 (11:02):
And I when I see somebody that is going to
be in this business, it's just it's a lot. It
can be a lot, and y'all see the ups and downs.
Y'all talk about it every single day. I just love
to support my sisters in this, you know. And I
grew up like that with Tashina and you know, you
know that's how we are.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
But who introduce you to therapyeahayah? What got you into
that headspace? Who told you? You know it?
Speaker 3 (11:28):
You should go to therapy because this business is hard,
Because that's a great.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Nobody told me that. I had to figure that out.
And that was in the nineties. I started figuring out.
Speaker 10 (11:36):
Oh you know what, I'm sorry, let me take that back.
It was my acting coach. Actually his name is Howard Fine.
I started going to him at.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Eighteen years old. We love Howard.
Speaker 10 (11:46):
So Howard was always like, listen, I'm not your therapist.
I think you have to always do two things. You
have to seek therapy because what we do is not
it's not healthy to a certain extent. Like most people,
when you're crying or when you're dealing with certain things,
you stay away from it, you but we embrace it
and we use it for our job.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Right.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
So he said, you have to do therapy and you
have to do.
Speaker 10 (12:11):
Charity work because you have to get outside of yourself
and not look at it like you know, yeah, get
outside of yourself. Yeah, and you're not the end all
be all, and there are things that are bigger than you.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
I agree.
Speaker 10 (12:24):
So that's what he always instilled in me. And so
since eighteen years old, I started going.
Speaker 11 (12:28):
To thing that's amazing because she talked about that too,
just like from you, learning how to decentralize herself to
give to other people.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 8 (12:35):
People don't just do that for no reason like that.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
No.
Speaker 10 (12:37):
I want people to win. Yeah, yeah, I want people
to win. I want us aw to win, you know,
and it may not be on it may be on
different levels, but you know, let's do it the most
healthy way we possibly can.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
Now, oh, I'm sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
No.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
I was just gonna say, so, how did that help you?
Because you know, you went through a divorce and if
I right correctly, this says you had seven dollars left
your name and that.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
That's that's true.
Speaker 10 (13:00):
Actually, no, the story was I had twenty one dollars
in my pocket and a knife cost seven dollars and
I wanted to pay for the knife, but it was
Christmas and I had a choice to try to get
some extra toys from my kids at the.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Write eight or something.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
So how did that work that you had done early
on on yourself? Help you in that moment?
Speaker 10 (13:24):
Well, I believe that I always had really good relationships,
and I forged.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Really good relationships.
Speaker 10 (13:31):
And the one thing that I held on to right
there was what God gave me. And what God gave
me was my talent and my ability to reach people
and to have good relationships. It was the one thing
nobody could take away. And so with therapy, that's how
I and really good friends and weeding out all the others.
I really I'm here today and I'm really happy.
Speaker 9 (13:53):
Wow you look happy, and yeah you come and glowing beautiful?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Yes, are you back up?
Speaker 11 (13:59):
Now?
Speaker 3 (13:59):
I didn't Melissa have.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
I believe it was.
Speaker 8 (14:07):
But with Flowers, y'all got great publicist.
Speaker 7 (14:10):
Yes you want to pay for my therapy, I'm open
to that.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
Okay.
Speaker 11 (14:24):
I have a question for you though, because I know
during that time that he was just talking about with
the divorce you got, you were going through a lot
of financially. You just talk about that. Right there was
the bankruptcy that you guys finally closed. I think that
was like six months right in your healing journey. Do
things like that, like closing the case and being able
to move on, actually help you to move on or no,
because you still have to.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
I think it's a lifetime of stuff.
Speaker 10 (14:43):
And I don't really understand how we went through the
bankruptcy honestly, but that I was kind of separated from it.
So I don't really know how we got through it.
But it really is just taking yourself up out of
it and keep it moving forward. I just move forward.
(15:03):
I got kids, man, I got two kids with one
has ADHD, the other one got autism, two separate issues,
and I just keep moving forward.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
You still got a career, you still got Oh yeah,
you know.
Speaker 8 (15:16):
I can't look backwards.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
I can't.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
Yeah, So I just don't.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
It has to be difficult too, because since you're such
a celebrity, such a face on television, people don't understand
what you go through.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
They be like, nah, she got it. I just see
she got it. I just seen another replay, like, yeah,
I know you have to deal with that. That had
to be difficult.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Not really, I don't really pay attention to the crowd noise.
I can't. I can't afford it.
Speaker 10 (15:38):
And the way that I look at life's like a
football game, Like whoever's on the field running with me
and got that ball with me? Or running the field
with me, I'm good. I don't pay attention to the
cheerleader's those the fake friends. I don't pay attention to
the crowd noise because they're there. That's their job to
boom and to cheer. So I can't pay attention to
any of it. I have to just block it out
(15:59):
and keep moving forward.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
I love that.
Speaker 9 (16:01):
This is my last question about the movie. I know
you got to go got press and stuff. Look how
did y'all find out or decide what roles y'all were
going to take? Like how did you know like the
tech roles for you and why you know?
Speaker 7 (16:12):
Like okay, I mean look that was all that was left. No, no, no,
Tita was already signed on, like I feel like, was
it like a year and then it went away and.
Speaker 10 (16:24):
They went away came back then I think Wendy was
busy and then she came back because I was doing
it because Wendy, And once she came back, I was like, okay,
I'll sign on right now.
Speaker 7 (16:35):
So that role was there, so I so I signed
on because Wendy. I knew we did like mis congeniality, yeah,
in the nineties then Tsha, and I was like, Okay, well,
I definitely want to do it because I want to
work with both of them. So yeah, I wasn't like, oh,
I want to play a tech person that has to
say all this stuff that I can't remember.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
But I thought I was interested in.
Speaker 7 (16:53):
It because of that, because I liked, you know, seeing
a woman of color playing this, like, you know.
Speaker 8 (16:58):
She's like brilliant.
Speaker 7 (17:00):
She's like a Steve Jobs, you know what I'm saying,
Like she invented software and you know, and she's like
good at them, you know what I mean everything that
I'm not.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
So I just I like brilliant.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
Executed it.
Speaker 7 (17:13):
I mean, I'm not gonna lie like sometimes that I
had them put.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
To whisperful.
Speaker 7 (17:20):
I'm on air, okay, but you know, like sometimes my
lines had to be because I could not.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
It just wouldn't stick.
Speaker 7 (17:26):
It was just like cryptocurrency, bitcoin, you know, a lot it.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
Was a lot of words that I just had never
used before.
Speaker 7 (17:32):
I don't know anything about that stuff, so I had
to look it up and stuff like that. But you know,
it was hard to remember yeah, but.
Speaker 10 (17:38):
It's still you know, it's still the show is still
rooted in the movie. It's still rooted in story and
hard and it has hard domedy and everything. So I
like that you still get to learn that and see
that there are black women that are justice brilliant.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
Is the taken but the female version of taking? Oh yeah, yes.
Speaker 11 (17:58):
Yes, nue for you because you talk about story, you
open book, you talked about your mommy makeover.
Speaker 8 (18:04):
I did be t words. What was your decision to
open up about that? Why?
Speaker 4 (18:08):
It was the deal that I made with Cosmic Care.
Speaker 10 (18:12):
I sat down with them and I was like, I
have to be honest with my stuff and really, let
me tell you what it actually came up, because sometimes
I just say my kids and I needed a mommy makeover.
But I have sarkitosis or was diagnosed with sarkitosis, which
is a genetic lung disorder, right, And so they put
you on a lot of steroids and after I lost
the weight health in a healthy way. It took a
(18:34):
long time, but it left me with a lot of
extraw meat down there. So I was like, you know what,
it's time for mommy makeover. I got me a nice
tummy tuck.
Speaker 6 (18:41):
I gotta lift.
Speaker 10 (18:46):
So that's why I you know, and I'm I'm an
open book. So I wanted to talk about it because
mommy makeover isn't for everybody, but it was for me
at that moment, and I wanted to feel good about
my mouf.
Speaker 9 (18:56):
And baby said that.
Speaker 11 (19:03):
You also said that you weren't dating right now because
you just it's still the same. Yeah, because the Momi
man car. Look, the friends are trying to stay next
to you at the concert.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
By myself, you.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Want baby hit on me as twenty one year olds anyway,
I want hit.
Speaker 8 (19:19):
It's giving one ways.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Yeah, okay for me, I'm good.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Apps.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
I love this for you, that's right. Yes, I don't
have to talk.
Speaker 8 (19:32):
No, But you said I love the spirit. Is there
a timeline on that for me?
Speaker 10 (19:36):
Like a timeline listen if I need a situation, but
give me a situation ship listen to you know she's
gonna do what she's gonna do.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
But you like to pull out cameras, Oh.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Exactly, that's with them.
Speaker 7 (19:54):
You gotta be careful just even talking to someone on
the phone. You don't know who's recording what, just and
you know what if you don't want somebody to know
something or hears something, just don't say it.
Speaker 6 (20:04):
You know, you really have to be careful these days.
Speaker 7 (20:07):
Everybody that's a new thing. Let me record whoever and
make some money off.
Speaker 6 (20:11):
Of that later.
Speaker 7 (20:12):
Let me just let me just put that in the
library in the vault, and I'm gonna bring it out
ten years later when you ain't got no money.
Speaker 6 (20:18):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 10 (20:19):
My friend told me, she was like, you know, t Shi,
you're not marriage material.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
She said that because she was like, guys.
Speaker 10 (20:36):
Just want to mess with Gina. They don't want to
you know, right now, that's all they see. They want
to be with Gina. They don't want to be with you.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
And I was like, I don't believe that.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Maybe the young boy. I can see the young boy. Yeah,
I can't see nobody.
Speaker 8 (20:54):
Grown you would know better than us.
Speaker 10 (20:55):
So no, they do that, because listen, when people flirt
with me, I get I get nervous anyway, because listen,
let me tell you because I was in a twenty
seven year relationship, marriage committed, So I don't know nothing
about fangled anything.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
So yeah, oh I haven't even my stand up bag.
I'm doing stand up now, time. Yes, I do.
Speaker 10 (21:23):
I talk about something that a moment we had on
the game show.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Yes, I'll tell you.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
What long I want to hear.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
It was funny.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
It was funny. Young boys are all over your Yeah,
I want to see that away from them. I'm not.
Speaker 7 (21:42):
I'm not.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
I am Yes, I'm staying away from it all now.
Speaker 8 (21:46):
On that video you moving them hips and that that
dance video. That environment what dance video? You can see
the video?
Speaker 4 (21:51):
You what happened?
Speaker 8 (21:53):
It was?
Speaker 5 (21:56):
No, you're just dancing, enjoying your time.
Speaker 8 (21:59):
But like you was you was having a good time.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
She was getting it.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
Oh no, that was doing house music.
Speaker 8 (22:04):
Yeah, John, thank you.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Last week.
Speaker 7 (22:11):
Everybody, they just think I'm shelbying real. They just it
won't go away.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
But but.
Speaker 7 (22:19):
They're like scared, but they want it, but they're scared
or they're going to be meeting oh god all the time.
That's the first thing that comes out of there. They're
calling me that shall I be on the street?
Speaker 4 (22:29):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 6 (22:30):
But whenever they meet.
Speaker 7 (22:31):
Me, they're like, oh my god, you're so nice, you
know what I mean. They just expect me to be feisty.
Speaker 6 (22:35):
Yeah, just can't. They can't separate.
Speaker 9 (22:39):
It's the great actress, because that's what that means that part. Look,
speaking of that, had the Burns said that she will
be down for Miss Congeniality three, So would I come
down to you?
Speaker 7 (22:51):
That was one of the best experiences of my career,
and it was very early on and it just shows
like Cassandra Bullock is just the nicest person, and the
people I was working with, they were just all kind
and you know, you don't really we were down there
for like three months, and we were all young, and
we and we all got along and it was such
a nice experience and we had so much fun. But
(23:12):
I would totally want to do that a third one.
I mean, you know, if they come up with a story,
I look, I'm ready all righty, Yeah, it was fun.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
I would love to do that.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
We need that teach you just started watching Martin five
years ago.
Speaker 10 (23:24):
Crazy, yes, because a lot of the millennials and the
gen zs that are just kind of getting to know it,
they quote shit in me. I don't know what the
fuck they're talking about, Like what No.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
But that was like in the nineties. I was thirty
some years ago. But so that you have some like
content that was thirty years ago.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
That's crazy, but like if.
Speaker 10 (23:45):
So that you have content, Like I said, like me
and Tashina, we grew up as Broadway kids, and you're
only as good as your last job, so we don't again,
we don't look backwards, and we don't we're not in
a present. We're always looking at what's the next gig.
So it trained us not to watch our own work.
So I don't watch my own work. My kids never
watched my work unless somebody snuck it to them.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Oh that's why my youngest.
Speaker 10 (24:09):
Calls me Gina. He don't call me mommy. You know
you don't call me mommy. If you call me mommy,
it's something wrong. But that's another reason why I never
watched the Martin Show. But because people kept quoting shit
at me, like my friends. She kept saying, look at
the white shoes, look at the white shoes.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
I was like, what you're talking about. She was like,
that's from Martin.
Speaker 10 (24:27):
Look through a Jerome when look at the WS And
I was like, that was an inside joke that nobody
was supposed to know, because Martin would never let us
see his outfits for jeromea Shanine. And so when he
came through the door, and uh, he was like, look
at the white shoes.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
He was telling me it to Ghena to look at
the white shoes, not our characters.
Speaker 10 (24:46):
But it became like this thing that we didn't know
it was so because they kept quoting stuff at me.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
I started watching it, and it's funny.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
How did you perfect your craft when you didn't observe
your work?
Speaker 10 (24:58):
Oh that's like that's more like like for like football players,
basketball players.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
They do that.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
She said, No, don't play with me. I know, no.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
You kind of just we're under how we're fine. We
have the and Santislavski and all that.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
Yeah, the technical So you never watched my wife and
kids either.
Speaker 10 (25:16):
No, I my kids don't like watching it because they
say I yell at those kids like I yell at them. Okay,
so they're like, I don't know, that's too much. They
look at it like this.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
And I love what you and Melissa had with Operational,
but I really want to see you into sheen to
do some type of of buddy comic. You know what
I'm saying, because it's like nobody.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
Things are have.
Speaker 9 (25:51):
You happen than not talk about nice things that happened okay,
movie movie TV shows.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Okay, all right, are y'all still casting?
Speaker 6 (26:02):
But we are going on some things together.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Okay, you here, Jesse.
Speaker 9 (26:06):
Said, yes, don't bring it back, Yes, okay, don't play
with me.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
I'm not playing with you. I'm not girling. I'm not
playing them.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
There, can I get your time? Still here?
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Here?
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Here?
Speaker 5 (26:22):
Yeah, I'm gonna give you the number, right, Anthony, all.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Right, operation comes out there on eleven. We appreciate for
joining us.
Speaker 10 (26:30):
Yes, thank you, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
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