"The Blackening" Cast Talk Their Favorite Horror Movies, Working With Director Tim Story & More!!

Three of the cast members of the horror comedy film "The Blackening" talked their favorite horror movies, working with director Tim Story, comedy borderlines, working with an all black cast, behind the scenes stories & more.

Host: DJ Suss One

Guest Co-Host: Sharese Bullock-Bailey

Talent: Antoinette Robertson, Jermaine Fowler & X Mayo

Episode Transcript

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Movies, what do your mind?The step aside of it will be violence,
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what our baby is? Dj Susswon the feature Presentation podcast where movies and
music meet. I got my guestco host here, who's actually family.
By the way, Charice Bailey wasgoing on What's up Cousinton, which,
by the way, she um foranybody who's new to the podcast. She
runs the Urban World Film Festival,so she's she's gonna lonely money later.
You know what I'm saying. I'mjust so happy to be here. This

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is so exciting. The Blackington,black the Blackington. Why am I saying
your Blackington, the blackening, theblack Well, let me let me get
your douce. We got three ofthe cast members from the blacking Now you
got me saying Blackington because the blackeningstarted, the blackening, the blackening,
which is coming out. We gotanswering THATTT Robertson, we got X Mayo,

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and we got your main fouler inthe building. You're you're That's New
York Day you're love New York.Nice. All right, Well, look,
let's start with this. I'm ahorror movie guy and I'm a comedy
guy, so I want to startby asking you guys, what is your
favorite horror movie? First of all, and then what is your favorite horror
comedy? Oh? Okay, umfavorite horror is always Forget. I always

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ask y'all, when the when theBlack family come out of the photo?
What's that from the hood? Fromthe hood? Okay, So my favorite
horror, my favorite Um, Iwould say new horror comedy. Um,
and it's uh, it's It's probablyone of the most brilliant I've ever seen.
I know it says horror comedy,but I feel like it's its own
genre. And that is boas Afraidthat just came out with Joaquin Phoenix.

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It is fucking incredible. Nice,I gotta see that one under that one.
Well, unfortunately, I do nothave a favorite horror movie. I'm
a little bit of afraid of yet. So I've all really had Oh my
goodness, I have veered away fromhorror movies my entire life. I think
I got scared one crazy time withlike Candy Man, and I was like,
Okay, no, We're fine.Um, I would have to say
that this is my first experience,like true experience was like a horror comedy

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that I'm obsessed with. So I'mgonna have to say the blackening because I'm
gonna red my herd. Okay,the press team loves you right now.
Wait, but have you seen forColor Girls? I have, so you've
seen a horror I was ever scary. She threw that that baby feel it
was the blood from a baby onthe street. That was bad. It
was it was really bad. Myfavorite probably be like, you know,

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Sleepy Hollow. I watched that,had that DVD and I'd replayed all the
time when I was a kid.Favorite horror comedy. I don't know if
a particular favorite horror comedy. Ido love unintentional moments that are funny,
you know, in horror movies.Jason Goes to Manhattan is one of the
fun Like, wow, when he'sboxing that dude and his head got knocked
off, it's hilarious. Man,all right, cool, So you must

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be an eighties baby eighty eight?All right, love, all right?
Well, nobody mentioned any of theclassics from Freddy Krueger, the Michael Myers
to Jason before he's I thought,we don't really watch horror like my mama,
we don't play with demons like.That's how I was like, Okay,
okay, So if I watched it, it was a byproduct of being
with my older cousins who didn't givea fuck with Mama said about what I
can and cannot watch. So itwas just like LEPrecon in the Hood Tells

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from the Hood Vampire and Brooklyn likenever like Extorcist, still have never seen,
don't care to see it. Sowhen we first got the script,
I was like, Oh, it'sall niggas, Okay, I'll do it
like I'm gonna be safe. I'mgonna be safe, and it's not gonna
be too many like demons. I'mnot gonna have to like get in my
body and you know, become adevil or some shit, because you know,
we don't fuck with the devil.Well, let's take it that.

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How did you guys get onto thisproject? How did you guys come across
it? My agents came up tome and were like, hey, we
know that, we know that horroris a non starter for you, but
this is a horror comedy and don'tsay you're gonna read it and not read
it, but like, I promiseyou just read it. And I read
it and I could not put itdown until I finished it. It was
it was I was like, thisis innovative, it's new, it's a

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fresh, new take. I've neverseen anything like this, and I'm like,
wait, hold on, everyone's blackand we're so used to like the
trope of like the black person beingthe first person to die. I'm like,
wait, hold on, how isthis gonna work itself out? I
mean, the writing was just sogood. I was giggling reading the script,
like I could visualize the relationships thatthese this group of friends had,

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like I saw my character, Isaw the arc. I was like,
you know what, if I don'tsay yes to this, I'm gonna regret
it. I know it. You'reso happy you did? You perfect too.
Yeah. I got the script.My manager sent it over. UM
made me laugh the whole way through. They wanted me to play. They
said read for Clifton, and Iwasn't. I was like, I got

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read for him, and I wasn'tnecessarily like, you know, excited to
play someone that off kilter. Butthen the more I read the script,
you know, it just kind ofI was really excited to kind of peel
back some of his layers and figureout like why he is the way he
is. That excited me the most, and then building him from the ground
up was so much fun to dowith the makeup department, the wardrobe department.

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Tim, we had a great phonecall about the character it was.
It was lovely, dude. Everythingwas just so yeah, we were all
kind of just in so much synergy, you know. So the script is
the thing, and the writing isexcellent, and just to jump back to
the shout out to Duane Perkins,too is not but this is his baby.
It came from a stage sketch toa digital short that went viral,
So let's be clear, like everydigital short, people don't just see it

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and just want to pick it up. The whole internet loved it and that
got the attention to Tracy Oliver.So a shout out to Duane because we
would not be here without you.Absolutely, big shout out to Duwayne.
And also for filmmakers getting their start, we all know how hard it is
to turn a short into a feature, let alone directed by them, like

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the incredible Tim's stories, the momentI mean, barber Shops, Shifts,
Rite Along, Fantastic four. So, but also he directed the John b
music video featuring Tupac, So,I mean, what was it like working
with the legend Tim Story's cool,Like I wouldn't think someone that famous would

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be that cool. Like the Chillas Hell. He was so collaborative.
There were suggestions we would all haveabout our character scenes, moments that he
was just so willing to just hewas open to everything. He's amazing and
in person he's just even cool toman, he really is. It's like
you don't usually like some directors orlike want to micromanage their actors and don't

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allow them to kind of figure outthings on their own. Tim is very
like he understands that. Like wewere all kind of led by instinct,
and he was just like, Iwant to see how they play and just
let us be free. And Ihave to say I've never felt that free
on a set ever. Like hewas just you could take him aside,
have a conversation with him. He'dhear you out and be like, hey,
I kind of don't think that thismakes sense. He was like,

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you know what, like do whatfeels right, and I have to say,
like, I'm obsessed with Tim's story. Yeah, he's the perfect captain
because he never lost his cool.And it's like even when you would hear
like a little fodder of like otherpeople on the crew, like wondering about
things for time, you just hearcertain conversations where they're just like trying to
do the best that they can.I would look at Tim and he is

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not He is not wavered at all, Like he is not worried about anything.
He's not concerned. So that keptme at ease. I'm like Tim
school, when we're gonna make ourday, everything's gonna be cool. And
it was a blessing to work withnot only a black director, but a
black director who really knows comedy becausehe has to know, especially with like
idiots like me, Germaine and Duane. You have to let us fucking rock

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like you have to. Like there'sso there's so many things that I found
that wasn't on the page because helet Jermaine just go. And there's a
scene that you'll see towards the endwhere I am just ripping Jermaine. What
Clifton a new one? Not Jermainebecause I love German, but Clifton.
He hate that niche but I'm like, and that was because he just wanted

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me to just just go off.But it was something that Clifton did and
like, Jermaine was so in hisbody in that character that it like scared
me for a second because you hearof like these horror stories and I just
wanted to make sure that that thingcame up off him when they said cut,
because he's so fucking good in themovie. He's so good. Wow,
Tim, you know, we allhad something to prove. You know,

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on set, we all wanted toplay you know, our characters to
a t, and Tim gave usthat autonomy to just go crazy. He
also we had our phone call andhe just always wanted to direct a movie
like this, and his sensibilities arethere, they range. He he loves
you know, we talked about moviesfrom seven Rosemary's Baby. He loves horror
and he's just he's encyclopedia. Sodoing this movie, I'm sure like he

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had a great time doing as muchas we did. You know, it
wasn't like a director for higher situation. The dude love the script and the
crew around it. YO, shoutto um Marlon Wayne's He was on the
podcast like like a month ago.Yeah, he was on the podcast.
He's incredible. He's one of ourbiggest episodes and he you know, he's
done a lot of horror comedy andhe said in the episode that there should

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be no you know, we talkedabout the Will Smith jaded thing about his
episode. They talked about that andI asked him, were you nervous because
you know, you know, justtalk about anything. He said, there's
no borderlines in comedy. And thereason I'm bringing this up when you guys
did this movie, did you guysfeel like because of the whole comedy with
June team, like, were youguys nervous? No, you know,

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being comedians say you make comedy aboutthat as comedians. And I would say
Antoinette, I think she's a comedicactor to me, and I feel like,
even though she's not like I wouldsay, your stereotypical comedian her sin
quah WA's and Grace Buyers without themhaving that grounded performance and always giving us
that base reality comedy has nothing topop off of. So they are I

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would say, the most important piecesof this movie because you don't get no
comedy because then it's just kind thenwhat the fuck what is the story about?
Right? So, but I willsay that as a comedian, I
know that I can make a jokeabout anything, especially writing for Late Night
for three years. Just it hasto be funnier than it is true.
That's all it has to be.Like, it has to be funnier than
it is mean, Like it justhas to be that's just what it is.

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So I feel like we did thatsuccessfully and there was nothing about it
being around June Teeth that were like, oh, let's not because I mean,
black people every day for us asa horror you know, and we
are all tired yet resilient, soit's like we have to find something to
laugh at. You know. Iagree with you with just that. You
know, we've seen so many crazy, you know, protests and people jumping
on stage comedians in this generation.So that's why I just want to ask

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you. That was really nice abouthaving UM a creator like Dwayne Perkins and
and writers like Dwayne and Tracy,is that like they were very fearless when
they approached this. It was verymuch So we're giving people blackness. It's
not going to be diluted. We'regonna show them different hues of blackness.

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We're gonna show them us in ourlike our fully fleshed out characters, Like
we're not playing the stereotype. We'renot just the token. We're not just
the best friend. We're showing youour relationships. And much of what you
see of blackness from certain creators isthrough the lens of whiteness, and it's
it's how people perceive us to beas opposed to how we are, like

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full, the full embodiment of whowe are, Like Dwayne's character is not
just a gay best friend, likehe's he's everything in this film, like
our relationship is everything. He's nota sidekick. Um, all of these,
all of these characters were written sobeautifully and so for them to say,
you know what, if we're gonnado it, it's an indie,
let's do it. Let's give themexactly what it is. Nobs, you

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guys, you know what everyone's livingin their character like fully, like just
go for it and see what happens. And it legitimately became the most insane
lightning in a bottle type situation youcould ever. It's like everyone who is
an like an artist, and Imean like true artists like these people love
what they do and I'm talking fromeveryone and the crew to all of the

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cast members. Everyone's obsessed with whatthey do, and we kind of just
let everyone do what they do theway that they do it without their no
overseers, there's no one that's likekind of you had to just trust that
everybody was in their bag. Andwhen you see some of these scenes,
like I can't even tell you howmany times these two had me biting the

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inside of my cheeks, like Ihave tears in my eyes. I know
you do. John will be like, guys, I don't want to I
don't want to give away spoilers becauseit's a non spoiler interview, but it's
a very very hilarious. Everybody inthis room and everybody not in this room

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that was in that movie was hilarious. You know. It's funny, Like,
you know, times are always goingto be tumultuous. It's just it's
just a fact. And you know, our you know, our generation,
we're no different than the ones beforeus. But without them, we may
have never gotten comedians like Dick Gregoryor Richard pryor you know, we just
need comedy. But you know,without drama, we wouldn't have it.

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It's a fine line between drama andcomedy. And that's why you get,
you know, moments of levity andhumor with Get Out or any you know
Quentin Tarantino movie. You know whatI'm saying, Like you just you just
earn it. You earn that laughwhen you know you've just been tensed ups
for so long and then you justwant to release you know, this movie,
man, truly like you can.You can do comedy in times like
this, but it has to comefrom a strong foundation. You know what

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I'm saying. You just can't dogay jokes to be doing gage jokes,
you know what I'm saying. Yougot to have a perspective. You'll be
in this movie like we actually wehave an opinion and we're gonna say I
think when you try to please everybodyand you make something that's so watered down
and lacks of days ago, likewe, I'd rather know, like what
the fuck do you believe? Evenif it's something that I don't agree with,

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at least I know where you stayat. Yeah. I like knowing
where people come from, you know, I love you know. I feel
like nowadays you can say whatever youwant to say thanks to social media,
and that's whatever. That's that's totallydope, that's that's totally fine. But
I love I mean, clearly,it is, clearly it is. Clearly
it is if people just say,you know what I'm saying, I just

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need to know where you stand,you know what I'm saying emotionally, you
know what's the context everywhere? Areyou just gotta I didn't need to know
that that you just fucking heard basedon facts that's owned by a site of
some fucking Republicans, Like you don'teven do the necessary work to do the
research, Like are you just likeyou just want to be a part of
this elationists? And I feel likeour social media it's a race not to

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be thoughtful, to critically think.It's a race to be right. And
I first, yeah, or evenappease your little box. You know,
you're you're you know, your yourown little box. You know. They
just also think, because you can'tget an immediate ass whipping from social media,
people just keep talking shit. BecauseI come, I see people like

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who like literally got their asking likea girl out her head bashed in right
next to me in my locker inhigh school because she was talking too much
shit, Like, I know whathappens to you. People have died,
like mom Marcelle. He was talkingto shit to this Mexican boy didn't know
his whole family is from eighteen Street. He was dead by lunch. So
I know what happens when you talkshit. But I'm very mindful and I
have to give like full context andI want to give something thoughtful. But

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there's so much nuance and I don'tknow you. Yeah, there's so much.
Has been a witness to numerous murdersin La just admitted to a couple
of murders. She's kind of like, let's tell it back to was this.
I'm not in New York City andvery peaceful. Well, I mean,

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I want to dig into that ideaof the first ever, right,
So this is for me viewing thefilm. I actually watched it alone at
home. But it felt like afirst ever for sure, like first ever
all black casts, parody, blackcomedy, horror, Like in your opinion,
in this point in your career,to do a first ever, what
does that mean for you? Andhow did it feel making this first ever?

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You want to know what's wild aboutit? This was a labor,
a true labor of love. Andso to say you're gonna say yes to
an indie that you thought was cooland fun, and then you love the
script, but then you love thecast. But then for all of this
to come from it is not somethingthat we all anticipated. It was just
very very much. So we hada great time working with great artists and

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then I was like, we knowwe made something special. We could feel
it when we're making it, andthen to see it somehow it's funnier than
when we made it. I don'tknow how, but it is. I
mean, I guess all the piecescome together, but like to be a
part of something that is the firstever and that wasn't our intention. Like,
I just feel like we're all kindof in a world of gratitude.
UM kind of just wanted to seewhere it lands and hopefully people love it

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as much as we do. Um. The responses have been amazing, So
we just hope everybody pulls up Junesixteenth to the theater with their friends,
their family and tripeat that June sixteenthto Blackening in theater. Ye if you
hear this episode after the sixteenth,go see it immediately with your friends.

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Because our movie demands interaction. Itdoesn't ask for it demands it. And
I feel the way that we wereactually reacting as a as a group on
camera is the way that we've seenand witnessed in these screens, the way
that the friend groups are reacting.Because we represent seven major archetypes, I
would see black people were nuanced somany layers to that. But I think

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you know these seven people. Butalthough this movie was made by us,
it's for who everybody. Everybody needsto come out so quick comedy. Would
you guys in real life be seenwith seven black other black people, with
six of the black people going intoa cabin in the woods. I ain't
gonna lie. Listen. People onthe side, it's like, oh no,

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I'm from Maryland. We grew upin the woods. Like that's where
you know we all grew up.So I'm not afraid of that. I
am mostly afraid of Game Spades,that that scar that game. Yeah,
more violence is happen over Like thefirst day that we met, like all
the Space players like stayd their claimand me and Jermaine Duwayne were like,

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we're gonna do bids. Yeah,no, Joe, I think everyone should
get out of the comfort zone andgo travel no matter where it is.
You know what I'm saying. Imean, you don't not saying go to
a damn cabin in the woods andsecluded area. But like I do,
feel like a healthy field trip isjust necessary for everybody. Man. Yes,
perhaps in the movie, you know, we were supposed to go to

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an airbnb down correct, correct andpop up and then it's the cabin correct
way. You can't surprise a cabinon people. Man. Yeah, what
references. I saw some references.I don't know if it was planned this
way, but it seemed like itwas planning the way it seemed like they
were. There was a little bitof parody of Saw and screaming. There
wasn't that way. A lot ofinspirations, dude, I mean, I

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think we all have a perspective ofwhat I you know, we all feel
the movie kind of pulled from orwas inspired by. Um there's a movie
called Funny Games I watched that remindedme of this film and your next uh
those films really reminded me of justlike the Totally and and uh Cy thematically.
I was really into those films whenI first saw the screaming in Toronto.

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I was like wow, And wesaw it in front of a huge
audience in Canada, all white peoplejust screaming like there was a deaf comedy.
Jam was a response. It waslike death comedy jam. It was
crazy. Yeah. Yeah. Theyhad to re edit it so that we
can hear some of the jokes thatwe might have missed the first time we
saw and that was very flattering.Honestly. Congratulations. By the way,

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we're all primar in Toronto. That'sa thing of dreams, yeah, dude,
and those are movie lovers man like, honestly, like Antonette was saying,
man's movies for everybody. So horrormovie fans saw the film for what
it was a horror movie and hada great time, you know what I
mean. Beneath it are great messagesand you know, there's a there's there's
themes there and stuff, but likewe just wanted to laugh and have a
good time, you know. Comingout of COVID, I think it's a

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perfect movie to see with your fanof friends, just to jump in behind
the scenes, right, So muchhappens when you're filming together as a crew.
What were the behind the scenes foryou like, I mean, were
you hanging out every night? Howdare you? Wow? But he sold

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on camera, I guess I'll takeit. We uh, we would so
like you know, between takes wetalk trash and like, you know,
goop around with each other. Butwhen they say action, sometimes we forget
that. You know, we hadto work and we wouldn't hear action most
times. So Grace Buyers came up. It was a grace. Grace came
up with a yeah. She cameup with a colde word that we would

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hear in order to get us thefocus, you know. So it was
a fella koti yeah. And soanytime we would act up, you know,
someone say to action, we forgetshe'd like. So that's how much
fun we had on set for realwe did, and like even like people
like Jermaine just was having such agood time that he was there early when
he didn't even need to be.He like, I remember when he knocked

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on my door. Because obviously I'ma fan of Germaine and I love Sorry
to Boy, Sorry to bother you. I love that creator because I love
people who take big risk and heeven has like a new show coming out
that I'm so excited to see.So when he knocked on my door,
I'm like yes, and he's like, if you ever want to like run
lines or anything. I'm like,who the fuck are you, humble,
cheating bone little shit? I amin love with you. Yeah. Yeah,

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Yet we were having fucking lunch togetherand we had noodle time. We
would have we would love young littletime. We have a couple of noodles.
It was so late, like ourshooting schedule was wicked. It was
well, let's be let's be real. We shot this during the pandemic,
at the beginning of the twenty twentyand height of it actually, so it

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was the hight of twenty twenty one. Yeah, so of the pandemic.
So the set was full of justmasks and weird just energy and we just
we needed this movie because we neededto get out of the house be around
people. And I think we allhad that common sort of you know,
I don't know, we just wantedto be around just positivity and wavelength and
focus. Problem to have that theeight is like y'all are having too much

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fun, y'all, but too lotsLike can you guys take like your friends
on camera? Can you just horrea movie because I forgot. I was
so tired one day and I wasin a scene with um. I would
say a villain and I had toscream, and I forgot. So I'm
just like acting and doing this.And then he said, because he's like

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X, you you're in you haveto scream. I was like, oh,
because I was just like acting likehe was, Hey, but you
were back in there. Let youwere like, yeah, I ain't screaming
it. I was so tired.I was so chill. But yeah,
Tim was great act well. Doublecongratulations for making this at that time,
right, because so many people werejust alone. But we're grateful. Man.

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Most people end up, you know, anywhere, or don't ever come
out. And the fact that thisis coming out in theaters like this weekend
is now, and that you guyshave been seeing it everywhere people who I
know, just like at the atthe airport my flight, he was like,
yeah, I saw over here,I saw the billboard here, I
saw the GNA finals, Like thismovie is gonna be good. So I

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just am so appreciated for how Lionsgatehas been champion in black artists and just
showing up in the form of marketingright because the greatest movie could be existing
right now on Netflix and I neverknow never. Oh the best part about
our billboards is so the movie iscalled The Black Num, but beneath it
is a disclaimer that says, uh, not all, what is it up?
We all can't all die first?And black Twitter thought that was a

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title of the movie. They renamed that movie, that movie, you
don't call it? I mention everyday and they're attacking all of us.
They say, change the name ofthe movie. Yeah, aggressively, just
like changing change. We can't alldie first is leg So that's a long
ass title. Why would we nameit that? Always? Always, always,

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you know, there's always an undergroundmovement, right, why can't you
do? I mean, so,just to jump back to your characters,
I mean, I don't we don'twant to give away the whole whole story
here, but can you kind ofintroduce, like our audience to your character
in your own way? I'd bereally curious, is this interview coming out
before after the film, before thefilm? Just in your own perspective.

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I play Lisa Um. She's intelligent, she's articulate, She's um a lawyer.
She is the glue that holds uhthis friend group together. She's the
one that says let's go to agabin in the way. Yes, because
she skis and does all the allthe new age black girl stuff. Um.
You we get to see Lisa.We get to see Lisa UM very

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vulnerable and and panicked, and wealso get to see her kind of um
own the space that she's in andand UM choose to be as resilient as
you know, the blood that runsin her veins. UM. She also,
like you know, can go fromlike anybody else, she can go
from you know, one on tothe other, come walking around the show

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to be seen and heard. Andyou know what, I think we have
the world on our shoulders, andI feel like show up. If we
don't process our trauma, UM,it comes out a lot of different.
I can say that, thank you, that's a perfect description. I'll play

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Clifton. Clifton UM is a Hejust wants to be accepted, um by
anybody and everybody. But this filmis specifically the core group, and there
are many things he's into, butno one gives me the chance to express
that. He'll surprise you about whatabout what he knows, but no one
wants to know him it's very actuallykind of like sad when you think about

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it. Yeah, it's extremely peculiar. And that's all I can say right
now. Um. I would sayShanika is the comic relief of the group.
Um. Uh. I would sayshe's the big life of the party.
I think she loves really hard.Um. Sometimes she says things that
everyone's thinking, but she shouldn't.She have a little farm filter. Um.

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And I think that she loves herfriends deeply, and although she tries
very hard, I think she getsfrustrated with not knowing all the answers.
Um. Yeah, that's who sheis. And shout to the rest of
the cast. Like I said,the movie is absolutely amazing. Yes,
Granspyre Sanquas, Dwayne Melvin, Gregoh Man, Diedrich Bater. Absolutely.

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Since the response has been good,I mean, I guess it's gonna be
about numbers at the end of theday, but the response has been good.
Everybody's loving it. You think therecould be the Blackening two? I
mean yes, yeah, yeah,yeah, but we gotta survive, you
know, we gotta see the movieto know if that's even a possibility,
you know what I'm saying. Butyou know, we don't know. We
there was I don't want to saythat little ending, but no, we

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had such a great time doing itthat it'd be great to do another one
for in hard comedy, though,I'm gonna be honest, bro, like
I feel like I'm just gonna bea scary movie. I feel like those
people died in scary movie. Onethat came back with You know why,
I'm going to confirm that the firstone because the strong hand that was Chris
Elliot. That was a number two. That was two my strong hand.

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Remember that movie Magic movie Man.Rules are different and hard comedy. But
yes, yes, well we hope, we hope there is a sequel and
a prequel and all the things,because the writing is phenomenal and um,

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just you describing your characters, Ithink is one of the most important things
I take away is we are nota monolith as black people, right,
And so there's a baby show weare. We love to say that,
and then you get to the repassand it's given all the same, but
the characters are so different and sohuman and so I mean and so funny,

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but fully fully, fully different,and Grace were so grateful for that.
That was a blastingnessy. Yeah,yeah, different, different, grown
a spectrum for real. Yeah.But do you I think that our characters
reflected They designed it that way forus to be cast, you know that
way. I don't know, Okay, Like they came in thinking X as

(29:36):
Shanika. Yes, possibly, it'sbecause we fit the characters. So it's
like a puzzle piece, like wemolded so well in the character. But
they didn't even know that I auditionedfor it. When I told him my
bodi, he was like, beatyou line and I sent to him like
the deals I know, the dealer'sclosed, is done, and he was
like, oh my god, theydon't tell me anything, So he didn't
know. So I think that theymight have designed it that way. Jermaine,

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But the wait, how we allfelt. I think that was just
pure magic. I'm sure it's magical. Damn. I'm just so everyone fits
so perfectly. I was like,this nigga right, graceful. That's all
the stars aligning, that's the stars. It's just so fucking funny. And
people know her as like from Empire, they know her from like four like

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other like different roles that aren't aslike with with comedy in the forefront,
I'm like, you fucking wait,Grace, she's so melodic in that role.
She she just floats on that.Yeah. Inclosing, individual, you
want to talk some more, I'mlike that's good, that's great. Yeah,

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yeah, we cousins, We cousins, all right, don't ask me
for money. Money at the beginning? Wow, individually, cousins, what
do you individual? Yeah? Ilove God when she asked me, doesn't
see looking right at the change jewelry? Yo. So what's going on for

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you guys individually? Anything exciting comingup that you guys want to talk about?
This is it? Niggah? No, No, we are We're always
doing You're writing something? Nah,I don't. I don't like talking about
like, yeah, that being andpromoting your ship because he really is so
bad at that. He has somuch shit. But I can't think of

(31:32):
it right now. I just gonnahave seen like all the projects, so
I'm gonna think it. Well,this is a real this is a real
moment, right, so we weall know there's a strike. But writers
are always going to be writing,right, Artists are always going to be
in practice, and so I mean, this is what are you doing to
stay in practice? Now? Whatprojects are you going back to, what
are you moving forward? Definitely stillwriting, still keeping that pin sharp,

(31:55):
like you always want to do that, just to be ready, and also
like I just love the idea ofjust like getting shit out and working shit
out. Um. But as faras like what else is happening, they're
coming out. I am in anew movie called Please Don't Destroy that's produced
by Jet Apatow. That's coming outNovember seventeenth on Peacock, So please watch
that. Um. It's an amazingfilm with the three creatives Ben Martin and

(32:16):
John who I love so much fromS and L. And it's really really
good, big, big, big, big, big, big, big,
big platforms awesome, the most nicest, amazing. I was like,
oh, this is why you're gotYeah. I I co executive produced and
start in a short film with LeeDavenport. Um, I'm not really sure

(32:37):
what we're doing with it right now, given the writer strike and what's going
on, but I think we're gonnaI guess we're gonna figure it out.
We're gonna figure it out because yeah, that's where Yeah, I've been going
back and reading books that I've alwayswanted, you know. Um, there's
this book. Quincy Jones wrote aboutthe chat. Yeah. Yeah, it's

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about creativity and how he got intoscoring and and and producing the greatest music
ever. Uller man, come on, dude, the dude French Prince of
bel Air, come on now.Anyway, the book is dude, man,
it's just the greatest book I've readin a minute, you know.
And uh, it's just to helpme get through the writers strike and inspired

(33:22):
me to you know, go go. And we'll say, if you are
a writer and you're a you arelistening and watching and you are in the
Union, whip it out. Comeon, I feel right, but you
are Westen, go through it,dude. You are writing, you are

(33:44):
in the Union, or you're notin the Union, and you don't feel
compelled to write, that's okay too. If you just like want to breathe,
stretched, shake, let it go, that's fine. Um. And
I also am very happy because,like the book that Jermaine talked about,
I'm so grateful that all of usare nerds for what we do. So
that's a blessing too to be aroundpeople that are like not selfish, because

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real niggas don't gay keep and theywill like share everything whatever they're reading something
they heard a booklet. So I'mvery blessed to be a part of a
cast that not only are great actors, but also great people. And I
think that's why you need to comeout on June sixteenth with a whole group
and support the Blackening coming out intheaters. Yeah, with all of your
friends, all of your cousins.You got no friends, make some friends

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because I'm like this episode right now. Congratulations June sixteenth, and get hearing
this after June sixteenth, go seeit immediately. Incredibly hilarious. I appreciate
you guys for coming to the podcast. I'm looking forward to everything that you

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guys are coming out in the future. Thanks the feature presentation.