Join hosts Pam and Dawn on Christmas MuVies Spotlight as they welcome the incredibly talented Terrence Terrell, star of the upcoming theatrical holiday release An Unexpected Christmas! 🎄🎬 Terrence shares what drew him to this heartwarming story, how it feels to bring a brand-new Christmas film to the big screen, and why stories of love, grace, and second chances resonate so deeply during the holidays. You’ll also hear fun behind-the-scenes moments, personal holiday memories, and Terrence’s thoughts on what truly makes Christmas special. 🎥 In this episode:
- Inside scoop on An Unexpected Christmas
- Terrence’s approach to meaningful storytelling
- Favorite traditions and Christmas memories
- What he hopes audiences take away from the film
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Speaker 1 (00:20):
Hello, and welcome to the special edition of Christmas TV Spotlight.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I'm your host, Own Mac.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
And I'm here with my friends, my co host.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
And my colleague. Mixed it up this time. Hey, hey, Pam,
how are you?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
I know you I'm going to come out of your mouth.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Really predictable, but yet I try to be unpredictable, but
I fail miserably at it every time.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
We just, you know, we want to mix it up
so that the listeners don't get bored with us. And
they always know that you're going to welcome me in
and I'm going to say something like crazy or who
knows what, but yeah, we're here and we're bringing you
an interview, so here we go.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Yeah, well, think about it.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
They would be bored if they heard like this pre
recorded person ushering us in, like you know, doing an
intro for the show itself, and then we just come
on and start talking.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
So it kind of you.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Know, I don't know, I don't I would be bored
if I was a listener.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Go, there's the two crazy ladies again.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Well, yeah, becames a lot of those things sound robotic.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
And that's the last thing.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
That's so true.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
That's so true.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
So how are you doing. How's your holiday season so far?
Speaker 4 (01:41):
It's a season I can help me so so early
to go into the full Christmas bang where we're still
at the buy.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Well look full transparency.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
You know what I did just over.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
The weekend, I had this everything right, No.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
I haven't. I haven't done.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
That's that's the first weekend in November only because it
falls on a weekend. So I thought, you know what,
rather than waiting till the second weekend this year, I'm
just gonna start it the first weekend. That way I
can enjoy it a little longer. But anyway, I have
this smaller tree. I know, six to one half dozen
the other but I have a smaller tree that I
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put up in my bedroom and I just it's just
white lights and I don't decorate it.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
I just put it up.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
It's really a rustic looking tree. It's got a rustic base.
It's really cute.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
And I put it up this weekend. I couldn't help it.
I couldn't wait any.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Like, my gosh, you know what I'm gonna do. You
know what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
I have to. I have to for your Christmas.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Yet this year I'm study a Christmas tree pillow, so
you can tuddle with that and be even closer to Christmas.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
That's it, you're getting that.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Tell you what, At the rate the Christmas movie season
is going, and it's already off and running, I don't
think I have to have anything like that, because there's something.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
All the time now, right.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
So anyway, so that is my little transparent moment for now.
I know there's people out there that going, really that's
just too early on.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
But it's just me.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
I just a little bit of joy and happiness I
give myself.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
You know, it's not munchy. It's just a lot of things,
as they say.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
But anyway, we're not here to talk about me putting
up a tree this weekend. We are here to talk
about an interview that we had recently with the amazing,
handsome and immensely talented Terence.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
To rell O. MG.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
It was gosh, what an amazing interview.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
I just over the moon still from talking to.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Him, honestly, honestly, I mean, I just can't even. It
was so much fun. And he's award winning. I mean,
he just the serves so many awards for the work
that he does because he is so so amazing at
what he does.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Yeah, I was just I.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Mean, you never know sometimes like from interview to interview,
but he just has such an effervescence and of just
such a positive vibe around him that you could just
feel it and you couldn't help but just be so
uplifted throughout and he just gave off good, good vibes,
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good juju as they say, right right.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Absolutely, and be sure to check out Terrence in his
brand new movie that's hit in the theaters. I know
if I'm your son, and it's called An Unexpected Christmas.
Oh my gosh. If you have not seen the trailer,
you need to watch it.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Yeah, definitely check it out.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
And we are so excited and honored to bring you
our interview with Terrence Terrell.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Enjoy the show.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
What's up you all?
Speaker 6 (05:01):
This is Terrence Durrell and you're listening to Pam and
Don Let's get it.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Hello, Jaron Some welcome to our show. Thank you so
much for taking the time to join us. We know
you're busy, of course.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Oh, you're very welcome. And I wanted to say that
I love your name, Terence, because I have an uncle
and a couple of cousins with that name, so there
we go two.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Hours.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
It's a good name, yeah, nice and strong. So what
version inspired you to pursue acting and when did you
know this was your calling?
Speaker 5 (05:43):
I literally just had this conversation with myself yesterday.
Speaker 6 (05:46):
Because it's so weird. I felt this since I was
a kid. I didn't around like seven. I was watching
Eddie Murphy on boomerang, which we should have been watching
at that age, but I just wanted to do I
remember wanting to do what Eddie murh if you did,
and wanted to do I felt something with watching What
We Go Over.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
I was like, I want to do what they did.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
But I thought it was the jobs inside of the
movie I didn't understand, and so I went to college
because I thought I wanted to be an advertised executive
like Eddie Murphy in the movie. I'm like, oh, I
think you want to be an actor. So I've been,
I said, I've been acting since I was maybe what
first grade because we didn't have a lot, so I
always acted as if I had a different life. So
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my mom had a different job every year, like she
was like this high profile executive somewhere, So you know,
I used to always just make believe saved my life
a couple of different times. Even now, going for throttle
into a depression got me into acting a lot as well,
because I didn't I didn't have a I felt like
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I didn't have a voice. So acting gives me a voice,
and also it gives me a chance to give the
characters and these amazing people I play voices as well.
So it's yeah, it's been since I was a little
you know.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
It's to me, it seems like it would be a
good form of therapy, Like you can just act out
your emotions depending upon the part, you really pour yourself
into it, and it's coming across as the character, but
you know, you're you're it's therapeutic for you the person
you know. And so speaking of that, what do you
think is the most understood misunderstood part of being a
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working actor?
Speaker 5 (07:25):
Oh my god?
Speaker 6 (07:26):
Where people when they see you on TV they're like, oh,
you're a millionaire, acting is not it's something. Or when
they get to LA and you'll have somebody talking, they're like, yeah,
I try to act and thing out right, And I'm
just like at first, I'm like, oh, yeah, do it.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
But now when people.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
Say it, it feels like somebody scratching a chok board,
because it's like, this is a real profession, like you
have to if you're not always say if you're not
on set, you need to be in class. If you're
not in class, you need to be studied. You're not studying.
You need to do something mentally for yourself. If that's
working out, walking up and down the street and nice
park or something, reading books. It's just it.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Yeah, so read a lot.
Speaker 6 (08:06):
And I just think people think as soon as you
become an actor, like, oh, you're rich, but you're not.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
It's a it's a job.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Job exactly exactly there, you know, otherwise we would have
all A listers and nobody that's underneath them, starting from
the bottom. Although John and I consider everybody an A lister,
so you yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Like that.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
Even with that, they think acting is like like I said,
when I was a child, I just remember wanting to
do this, and now as I'm doing it, it's like
you do. Yes, it's fun and you're on set, but
once you get off that set and it's done, you
have to find a whole nother.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
You know, job.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
So that's why you exactly you still have to audition
as if you have nothing.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
That's how you exactly.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Yeah, well, how do you prepare mentally and emotionally for
a role if it's like really dramatic or like true
stories type of roles.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
You know, what I found is really good.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
When you first think about acting, You're like, oh, if
there's a script, then there's a mom that died, and
you know my mother passed away.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
I'm like, oh, you can use those emotions.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
But if you're using those emotions to put yourself into
another situation, I find that that could be very triggering.
If you don't have good therapy, therapy, you can really mess
yourself up. So I think the big key for me
just have empathy. So I have empathy for almost everyone,
especially with the life I've lived thus far. You just
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have empathy for people. So even if it's a big
dramatic scene. Of course I'm studying, I know the words.
By the same time, I let myself go and be
free and know that I can trust myself with the
words and words you come to me. So it's just like,
just be free with it. I don't really sit. Some
people can sit for hours and study studies, say, but
I'm a verbal so I can't do that too long
I can understand. As long as I understand what's going on,
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what the voices, what this person is feeling, and then
find the empathy within that situation, I'll be fine.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Yeah, you know. I mean, it's all a part of
the grind.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
It's all part of the grind, you know, and finding
that empathy when I think this business can leave you
very bitter or very better and make you better as
you continue to grow and strive for the things you're achieving.
And one of the things as I was looking at
your resume, I mean, my gosh, you've done a.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Lot of stuff, Terrence.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
What has been your proudest moment in your career so far?
Speaker 2 (10:36):
And why?
Speaker 6 (10:38):
Okay, so it's just one moment on Obliterated that really
touched my heart, maybe tear up.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
I'm a cry baby.
Speaker 6 (10:44):
I'm six six, two hundred and fifty pounds, but I cried.
It's good for you. There was a moment. Of course,
I did the stunt in my own stunts, I did
the training, I did the gun training. So it was
a moment where we had to come down these stairs
and right before they call it action, I looked up
because there was a mirror in the hallway and I
saw myself and I remember in that moment seeing the
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person I wish I saw when I was a kid,
letting me know that I could do.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
It, and that scene I was.
Speaker 6 (11:14):
Going there and like yeah, but it was I had
to get it together quick because like it made emotional.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
I'm like, wow, like I'm a superhero, you know what
I mean?
Speaker 6 (11:23):
Because yeah, superhero? So that really that was a really
special moment for me.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
That's sweet. I love that you have to.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
You know what a lot of people don't realize is
it's not just walking in the door and reading the
words off the script. I mean, there's so much more
that you have to do before you can even do
that part of it. And one of those things, of course,
is working out for roles like this. So I would
imagine you've got forty two things going on in your
mind as you're actually really doing putting the words to work.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
Yes, yes, my wow.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Well outside of acting, what passions or projects fuel you creatively? Oh?
Speaker 6 (12:06):
Well, well, I have children's books, So I have I'm
looking around because I'm like, god, story rum, but I
have five children's books about self love and community.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Just teaching these kids. Can you know what they say,
you can't teach your old dog new tricks.
Speaker 6 (12:20):
So all these people that are running as well right now,
you know, the world is a very scary place.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
But the next generation coming up, that's what.
Speaker 6 (12:27):
We should be feeding, uh, to just show these kids
that they can love and be one with each other.
Because right now, I feel like, if we really understand
that we all really are brothers and sisters, we have
nine to nine point nine percent of the same DNA.
I know that because that's about the books and there's
like zero point three one whatever that number is. That
makes us different in who we are. So I'm like,
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we're really much more related than what we want to admit.
But once we actually understand it's a human race and
take all that other stuff out, yeah, I think it'll
be a I know it'll be a better place. So
my pastor, I go out and I read to children's
Miss Tina Knowles, Beyonce's mother.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
She's like a mom and me.
Speaker 6 (13:06):
She has the Angels and Warriors, her after school program
and Boys and Girls club in a sense where we
take the kids out on art projects, we take the
etiquette classes, art museums. We just it's a whole world
that we open these kids up to inner city youth.
It's like a hundred of them that we look out for.
So giving back to the youth and giving back to
my community, that's what I'm really really passionate about.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
That is so so awesome.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
I mean, you know, because as busy as you are,
and to say, you know, I'm going to make time
for this because this is a passion of mine.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
This is what I want to do, and you are
so right.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Feeding the youth of tomorrow with positive things and experiences
that they can take and run with is so key
to their success in the future and the success of
society in general. I mean, they are the way of tomorrow.
They're the future, and we have to pour into them.
We have to give them all we can, you know,
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and the world could be pretty harsh. So it's good
that you were You have taken that and you you're doing.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
What you are. That's great.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Well, speaking of growing as an artist, how do you
keep growing when you've already achieved so much?
Speaker 5 (14:18):
So funny, it's so funny because I didn't even realize.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
Even today today we have the unexpected Christmas premiere here
in Los Angeles in just like what two hours, and
so I guess it's just because my sister, who cuts
my hair, She's like, oh, this is about to be big.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
I'm like, oh, you know, cool.
Speaker 6 (14:38):
But I forget that. I don't know how I work
so much. I forget how big the moments are. Like
when I won Miammy, I remember having to apply back
and go right back and set. So what was the question.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Well, you know, you're just talking about all the things
you' basically you answered the question because you're talking.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
About all the things that you've done.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
And then you say when I won Miami and I'm like, okay.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
I think that you're growing.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
So I'm still get in class when can.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
I go to class every Tuesday when I can, And
it's a little annoying because as soon as I sign
up a class, all of a sudden, I get busy again.
Then I'm leaving like a scene partner hanging because I
can't go because I'm doing a premiere to that, you
know what I mean, Like it's premiere.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
I have something else. Even tomorrow, there's like a whole
nother thing.
Speaker 6 (15:31):
So I'm always in the gym because my mental space
so early in the morning. I'm always up if not,
I'm writing. I just created another show with my best
friend Alison. She was on Obliterated with me. We have
our own show that we're pitching. We've been pitching for
a good year now that we have some good stripes in.
So you know, I'm always creating or music. I have
music too, so it's like ADHD or whatever you want
(15:53):
to call it. I'm always doing something. But if I'm
not doing something, I'm always I'm napping. So I'm into bed.
Like thirty nine, I'm asleep. I'm not outside and club.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
If you want to find me after eight ten sleep. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
I love my math.
Speaker 6 (16:10):
I hated them when I was a kid, but now,
oh my god, nothing and.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
That ain't thirty.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Sometimes it's seven thirty. I'm like, oh my god, I
just go down already.
Speaker 6 (16:20):
You know, people like they expect when they see me,
like oh, we know you're going to be partying, or
people outdated.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
Like oh I just got more. I'm like, this is it.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
I do all that outside for you know, that's work,
But when I come home, I'm asleep.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
So the house is he.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
Said, I just watched that documentary last night, so it's
very poish.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
I can't you know, it's funny. John and I are
total opposite, and I guess I'm opposite of you. It's
just that I work nights and weekends all night life,
and so I'm still a night person and she's going
to bed at seven thirty, eight thirty, whatever it is.
And we send each other texts and we both know
that when she sends text to me in the morning,
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I'm sleep and when I send text to her in
the evening, she sleep.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
But we get it together exactly.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
See I said, you lived together. The house will always
be covered like.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
There's always well, one of us would have to move
since I'm in Chicago. So yeah, So I'm going to
bring it down to We've talked about a lot of
dramatic stuff and serious stuff.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
We're going to go to comedy now.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
We were in the comedy series Be Positive, along with
such incredibly talented and well men cast, including of course yourself.
What was it like working in that series and what
did you take away from that experience?
Speaker 6 (17:41):
That was my first Oh you're hitting, So I'm taking
moments because you're hitting everything I've been talking about. It
Be Positive happened during COVID, so so it was during COVID.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
It's multi camp.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
So multi camp is usually you know, shot Monday through Fridays,
Thursday and Friday. You're usually on the stage in front
of like a crowd of people where you get real labs,
so be positive. We were there, but we had to
like pause for the labs that weren't there because people
weren't in the audience because it was COVID. But I
was just so blessed because that was my first series
regular and I was working with Chuck Lloyd in Amazing.
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It was such an amazing show, so fun, and it
freaked me out because my grandmother was on dialysis in
real life.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
So when I walked in on the.
Speaker 6 (18:27):
Set and I saw the chairs, the chairs were the
same color as my grandmother's chair when she went to dialysis,
and I remember the machines, the beeping. It freaked me out.
So everything's just coming full circle. So it was it
really really gave me. I feel like it gave me
a whole nother superpower when it comes to MOLTI camp
because to hold to make a joke and then hold
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for the laughs in the middle of the joke and
then come back at the same note in the sense
of the joke to make sure that you land a joke.
It's all different type of exactly like what does he say?
It's a whole different type of world. So I learned
a lot. I grew out on that show, and I
was so grateful because that was my first series regular.
It was with the one and only Chudlrred, So it
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was amazing.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
That is amazing.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
And and talk about a skill having to hold it
in the middle of you know, and then staying in
the moment or trying to that. That's a skill set
all on its own, you know. All Right, So let's
talk about this awesome movie that's coming out on November
seventh and Unexpected Christmas. Now, Pam and I have seen
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the trailer, and I'm going to tell you, Terrence the trailer,
the movie's.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Gonna be phenomenal. I can't hardly wait. It is just
everything Christmas.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
I mean, our show is all about Christmas, but it
is everything Christmas feels, just from what if a trailer
could capture it. The trailer did, so it's it's awesome.
But what can you tell us about this movie without
giving too much away? We don't want to put in
bowlers out there.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
What can I.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
Do the movie if it was even with the production,
it was a lot of Christmas magic, okay, but the movie,
the movie, I would say that it gives you that
the feeling of like the Home Alans and you know,
just a good, wholesome family movie. Everybody can watch it together.
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I'm so excited. I didn't know what it was going
to theaters. I just went to work. And when they
said like, oh, we're gonna be in theaters like a
couple of months ago, I was like, oh wow, So
like today is technically my first day.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
I say. My sister said, you literally are a movie
star right now.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
You can killing right, that's right.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
You know.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
Oh I'm not coming. I don't want to do any commercials.
I just want to be on TV. Or I'm not
doing TV. I'm just I'm film actor. But I've been blessed.
I'm I have the kit Kat campaign right now. I
did the Progressive campaign, so I have the TV. You know,
I've done TV in film. So this movie is like
I said, it's a good Christmas movie, wholesome, funny. It's funny,
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and me and Lorell we go back and forth. It's
a whole like it's crazy. The whole cast is funny,
the timing was funny. Everybody was on points. So it's
going to give you that good warm like if you
like the pumpkin spice lattes or like the good Coco,
you know, like the good just that good, warm, happy
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Christmas holiday feeling, which we all need right now.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
So I'm really exactly.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Yeah, exactly. Well, I'll tell you I cracked up looking
watching that trailer, and I was very very pleased to
see Anna Maria Horsford in the movie as well.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
So I bet yes.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
She worked on Be Positive too, And I watched her
as a kid, like because she had the same hairstynd
as my mom. At one point I'm like, oh, wow,
she looks like my mom a little bit, I said her.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
And she possibly made me well, I can't say that,
but it's possibly down the road. We may be working
together pretty soon again. But she's in it, and Littlerel's
in it, Rico's in it, it's your Table, the right Dominique.
It's just so many amazing, like funny people in it.
So yeah, it was really really fun.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
Yeah, I can't wait. Well, what's the most unexpected or
funny thing that's ever happened?
Speaker 3 (22:15):
She won set.
Speaker 6 (22:18):
Oh god, what happened? There's so many stories. I'm trying
to find me look and I'm running through right now,
runn through it. I'm like, oh god, the movie. I
have another film coming to theaters called Not Without Hope,
and that's based on It's a biopic.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
It's about the guys and uh, I know this is Christmas.
I'm sorry. It's about the passed away in a voting accident.
So it was real life. It's a real life biopick.
Speaker 6 (22:49):
And so we shot that in Malta, like next to Italy,
and we were in this tank right.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
So I was like, this is a film.
Speaker 6 (22:57):
I'm gonna, you know, if we're in water, and we
had scuba divers down there to protect us, and so
I wanted we had to go There was a shot
where they wanted us to go down where we first
flip off the boat and we had to go down
and have the reaction in front of the camera at
the water free camera whatever that.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
Was under there.
Speaker 6 (23:15):
And so I decided that I was going to do
the whole BayWa washting and make my make bubbles coming
out of my mouth in front of the camera, not
knowing that when you do that if you don't know
what you're doing, water goes back in your mouth. So
I took almost I don't know how much water went
into my stomach, but all I remember was.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
The water was in my mind.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
It shot.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
It was like the water did come.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
So I was basically drowning, and I remember looking and
the guys.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
Were down there to make sure we're safe.
Speaker 6 (23:46):
But remember it's a whole real vil pick about a
boating accident. So they think I'm acting, but I'm really drowning.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
In my mind.
Speaker 6 (23:55):
As an actor, I'm like, I can't call cut because
it's unprofessional.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
How So I all kinds of things running. Oh my god,
I about die.
Speaker 6 (24:02):
I'm drowing and my drowning I'm big, I'm drowning, and
so I pushed the camera.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
I come up in mind you there's one hundred and
fifty people come up.
Speaker 6 (24:10):
I come up and there's one hundred maybe one hundred
and fifty people on that dock thing watching us. And
I come up screaming and hollering because I'm driving, screaming help.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
And everybody's clapping. I was drying.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
So amazing, and so imagine drowning and people are clapping.
It was that was the most unexpected thing that's happened
to far.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
You know, that's just you probably got to be the
one drawback if you're an actor and people think you're
in the moment of a thing and you're really not.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
You're real life. You transition to real life, right.
Speaker 6 (24:45):
And then the guys came up afterwards and they was like,
were you was it real?
Speaker 5 (24:49):
I was drowning.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
They said, hey, do you think we can do a
hand signal to let us know when you're actingly not?
Speaker 3 (24:54):
We can't tell.
Speaker 6 (24:54):
I'm like, well, I was running, I wasn't thinking about
what hand signal to send.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
Y'all right, right, it looks so so real. You're so great,
You're so talented. I'm like, thank you.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
Well you should have walked out of the water on
land and bowed like you did it on purpose.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
I was like, give me out of this thing.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Yeah, oh, oh my god.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Well, before we wrap up, we've got a fun little
lightning round. We want to play five questions, no wrong answers,
and it's all Christmas, so you know there's that all right.
First question, what is your favorite Christmas tradition?
Speaker 5 (25:32):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (25:34):
When I was a kid, my mom used to, uh,
she pretend like they was the Santa Claus, but maybe
a couple of weeks before Christmas, two weeks she used
to give us coloring books and put us in our rooms,
and then she will then decorate the tree and do
the Christmas presents. She'll put the Christmas presents under the tree,
pretend like Santa put empty boxes under the tree and
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they're empty, and so that Santa Cloud comes on the
twenty four for Christmas Eve. So I used to be
really fun because we used to really think like there
was magic happening upstairs downstairs and just being able. Then
we had a coloring book contest while we're up there too,
so I always won. So yeah, those are my favorite
little things. It always smell like peppermint and like cake
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during that time.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
So yeah, really that's a great memory. What is your
favorite Christmas song? Uh?
Speaker 5 (26:28):
Was ith all the Bells?
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Carols?
Speaker 5 (26:33):
Yes, Carol the Bells. That's my favorite song, my Destiny
Child though I love it.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
See there there's no wrong version or bad version of
that song. I love it as well. It's just something
about it. It's just so nostalgic and and Destiny Child's
version is Chef's Kiss, you know, it's up there, all right.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
So what is your favorite Christmas movie?
Speaker 5 (26:59):
Home alone? After today?
Speaker 3 (27:02):
I respect the Christmas see, that's right.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
I have a feeling that's gonna.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Be one of ours too, all right, Hot Tiddy or
hot chocolate.
Speaker 6 (27:14):
Because I'm from the South and hot to put us well,
you know, we only got hot tidy when we were sick,
but it used to make you know, you'll melt you'll
melt away.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
And under those big blankets Grandma used to put us under.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Yeah, hot time, all right.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
And last, but not least, white lights or colored lights.
Speaker 6 (27:33):
White lights, I think white. I like classic, you know,
like and just simple. Those The color lights are just
they never turned it the blinking thing when you needed
them to, and then they would get stuck on one color.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
No, So just nice clear white lights.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Yeah, same either way.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
You can't go wrong as long as there's lights. That's all. Well,
thank you so much for playing along with our like
be around we solden, George your answers, and we thoroughly,
thoroughly enjoyed speaking with you today.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
I can't even tell you how much we love this.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
And we're so looking You're welcome, We're so looking forward
to the movie and we welcome you back anytime.
Speaker 5 (28:16):
Yes, please, I would love to you. Guys. I love these.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
Accents, oh things. Although we don't seem like we have
an accent, but other people hear it. Right.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
He always said that, and I know I do.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
And as much as I know, buddy, I can't help
North Carolina.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
I am.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Yeah, I'm as North Carolinian as it gets.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
So what are you doing right either, Terrence? You either?
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Well?
Speaker 4 (28:49):
Thank you again, and since we won't speak to you
before the holidays, have a great one and we'll talk
to you hopefully soon.
Speaker 5 (28:56):
You love, Let's get it.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Thank you so much, good bye, care alle you guys.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Thank you so much for tuning in to our latest
episode of Christmas Movie Spotlight.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
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Speaker 1 (29:09):
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Speaker 2 (29:14):
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and we'll see you again real soon
Hello, and welcome to the special edition of Christmas TV Spotlight.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I'm your host, Own Mac.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
And I'm here with my friends, my co host.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
And my colleague. Mixed it up this time. Hey, hey, Pam,
how are you?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
I know you I'm going to come out of your mouth.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Really predictable, but yet I try to be unpredictable, but
I fail miserably at it every time.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
We just, you know, we want to mix it up
so that the listeners don't get bored with us. And
they always know that you're going to welcome me in
and I'm going to say something like crazy or who
knows what, but yeah, we're here and we're bringing you
an interview, so here we go.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Yeah, well, think about it.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
They would be bored if they heard like this pre
recorded person ushering us in, like you know, doing an
intro for the show itself, and then we just come
on and start talking.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
So it kind of you.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Know, I don't know, I don't I would be bored
if I was a listener.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Go, there's the two crazy ladies again.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Well, yeah, becames a lot of those things sound robotic.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
And that's the last thing.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
That's so true.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
That's so true.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
So how are you doing. How's your holiday season so far?
Speaker 4 (01:41):
It's a season I can help me so so early
to go into the full Christmas bang where we're still
at the buy.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Well look full transparency.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
You know what I did just over.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
The weekend, I had this everything right, No.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
I haven't. I haven't done.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
That's that's the first weekend in November only because it
falls on a weekend. So I thought, you know what,
rather than waiting till the second weekend this year, I'm
just gonna start it the first weekend. That way I
can enjoy it a little longer. But anyway, I have
this smaller tree. I know, six to one half dozen
the other but I have a smaller tree that I
(02:21):
put up in my bedroom and I just it's just
white lights and I don't decorate it.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
I just put it up.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
It's really a rustic looking tree. It's got a rustic base.
It's really cute.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
And I put it up this weekend. I couldn't help it.
I couldn't wait any.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Like, my gosh, you know what I'm gonna do. You
know what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
I have to. I have to for your Christmas.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Yet this year I'm study a Christmas tree pillow, so
you can tuddle with that and be even closer to Christmas.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
That's it, you're getting that.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Tell you what, At the rate the Christmas movie season
is going, and it's already off and running, I don't
think I have to have anything like that, because there's something.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
All the time now, right.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
So anyway, so that is my little transparent moment for now.
I know there's people out there that going, really that's
just too early on.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
But it's just me.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
I just a little bit of joy and happiness I
give myself.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
You know, it's not munchy. It's just a lot of things,
as they say.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
But anyway, we're not here to talk about me putting
up a tree this weekend. We are here to talk
about an interview that we had recently with the amazing,
handsome and immensely talented Terence.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
To rell O. MG.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
It was gosh, what an amazing interview.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
I just over the moon still from talking to.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Him, honestly, honestly, I mean, I just can't even. It
was so much fun. And he's award winning. I mean,
he just the serves so many awards for the work
that he does because he is so so amazing at
what he does.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Yeah, I was just I.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Mean, you never know sometimes like from interview to interview,
but he just has such an effervescence and of just
such a positive vibe around him that you could just
feel it and you couldn't help but just be so
uplifted throughout and he just gave off good, good vibes,
(04:30):
good juju as they say, right right.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Absolutely, and be sure to check out Terrence in his
brand new movie that's hit in the theaters. I know
if I'm your son, and it's called An Unexpected Christmas.
Oh my gosh. If you have not seen the trailer,
you need to watch it.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Yeah, definitely check it out.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
And we are so excited and honored to bring you
our interview with Terrence Terrell.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Enjoy the show.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
What's up you all?
Speaker 6 (05:01):
This is Terrence Durrell and you're listening to Pam and
Don Let's get it.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Hello, Jaron Some welcome to our show. Thank you so
much for taking the time to join us. We know
you're busy, of course.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Oh, you're very welcome. And I wanted to say that
I love your name, Terence, because I have an uncle
and a couple of cousins with that name, so there
we go two.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Hours.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
It's a good name, yeah, nice and strong. So what
version inspired you to pursue acting and when did you
know this was your calling?
Speaker 5 (05:43):
I literally just had this conversation with myself yesterday.
Speaker 6 (05:46):
Because it's so weird. I felt this since I was
a kid. I didn't around like seven. I was watching
Eddie Murphy on boomerang, which we should have been watching
at that age, but I just wanted to do I
remember wanting to do what Eddie murh if you did,
and wanted to do I felt something with watching What
We Go Over.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
I was like, I want to do what they did.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
But I thought it was the jobs inside of the
movie I didn't understand, and so I went to college
because I thought I wanted to be an advertised executive
like Eddie Murphy in the movie. I'm like, oh, I
think you want to be an actor. So I've been,
I said, I've been acting since I was maybe what
first grade because we didn't have a lot, so I
always acted as if I had a different life. So
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my mom had a different job every year, like she
was like this high profile executive somewhere, So you know,
I used to always just make believe saved my life
a couple of different times. Even now, going for throttle
into a depression got me into acting a lot as well,
because I didn't I didn't have a I felt like
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I didn't have a voice. So acting gives me a voice,
and also it gives me a chance to give the
characters and these amazing people I play voices as well.
So it's yeah, it's been since I was a little
you know.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
It's to me, it seems like it would be a
good form of therapy, Like you can just act out
your emotions depending upon the part, you really pour yourself
into it, and it's coming across as the character, but
you know, you're you're it's therapeutic for you the person
you know. And so speaking of that, what do you
think is the most understood misunderstood part of being a
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working actor?
Speaker 5 (07:25):
Oh my god?
Speaker 6 (07:26):
Where people when they see you on TV they're like, oh,
you're a millionaire, acting is not it's something. Or when
they get to LA and you'll have somebody talking, they're like, yeah,
I try to act and thing out right, And I'm
just like at first, I'm like, oh, yeah, do it.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
But now when people.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
Say it, it feels like somebody scratching a chok board,
because it's like, this is a real profession, like you
have to if you're not always say if you're not
on set, you need to be in class. If you're
not in class, you need to be studied. You're not studying.
You need to do something mentally for yourself. If that's
working out, walking up and down the street and nice
park or something, reading books. It's just it.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Yeah, so read a lot.
Speaker 6 (08:06):
And I just think people think as soon as you
become an actor, like, oh, you're rich, but you're not.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
It's a it's a job.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Job exactly exactly there, you know, otherwise we would have
all A listers and nobody that's underneath them, starting from
the bottom. Although John and I consider everybody an A lister,
so you yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Like that.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
Even with that, they think acting is like like I said,
when I was a child, I just remember wanting to
do this, and now as I'm doing it, it's like
you do. Yes, it's fun and you're on set, but
once you get off that set and it's done, you
have to find a whole nother.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
You know, job.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
So that's why you exactly you still have to audition
as if you have nothing.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
That's how you exactly.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Yeah, well, how do you prepare mentally and emotionally for
a role if it's like really dramatic or like true
stories type of roles.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
You know, what I found is really good.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
When you first think about acting, You're like, oh, if
there's a script, then there's a mom that died, and
you know my mother passed away.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
I'm like, oh, you can use those emotions.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
But if you're using those emotions to put yourself into
another situation, I find that that could be very triggering.
If you don't have good therapy, therapy, you can really mess
yourself up. So I think the big key for me
just have empathy. So I have empathy for almost everyone,
especially with the life I've lived thus far. You just
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have empathy for people. So even if it's a big
dramatic scene. Of course I'm studying, I know the words.
By the same time, I let myself go and be
free and know that I can trust myself with the
words and words you come to me. So it's just like,
just be free with it. I don't really sit. Some
people can sit for hours and study studies, say, but
I'm a verbal so I can't do that too long
I can understand. As long as I understand what's going on,
(09:59):
what the voices, what this person is feeling, and then
find the empathy within that situation, I'll be fine.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Yeah, you know. I mean, it's all a part of
the grind.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
It's all part of the grind, you know, and finding
that empathy when I think this business can leave you
very bitter or very better and make you better as
you continue to grow and strive for the things you're achieving.
And one of the things as I was looking at
your resume, I mean, my gosh, you've done a.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Lot of stuff, Terrence.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
What has been your proudest moment in your career so far?
Speaker 2 (10:36):
And why?
Speaker 6 (10:38):
Okay, so it's just one moment on Obliterated that really
touched my heart, maybe tear up.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
I'm a cry baby.
Speaker 6 (10:44):
I'm six six, two hundred and fifty pounds, but I cried.
It's good for you. There was a moment. Of course,
I did the stunt in my own stunts, I did
the training, I did the gun training. So it was
a moment where we had to come down these stairs
and right before they call it action, I looked up
because there was a mirror in the hallway and I
saw myself and I remember in that moment seeing the
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person I wish I saw when I was a kid,
letting me know that I could do.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
It, and that scene I was.
Speaker 6 (11:14):
Going there and like yeah, but it was I had
to get it together quick because like it made emotional.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
I'm like, wow, like I'm a superhero, you know what
I mean?
Speaker 6 (11:23):
Because yeah, superhero? So that really that was a really
special moment for me.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
That's sweet. I love that you have to.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
You know what a lot of people don't realize is
it's not just walking in the door and reading the
words off the script. I mean, there's so much more
that you have to do before you can even do
that part of it. And one of those things, of course,
is working out for roles like this. So I would
imagine you've got forty two things going on in your
mind as you're actually really doing putting the words to work.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
Yes, yes, my wow.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Well outside of acting, what passions or projects fuel you creatively? Oh?
Speaker 6 (12:06):
Well, well, I have children's books, So I have I'm
looking around because I'm like, god, story rum, but I
have five children's books about self love and community.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Just teaching these kids. Can you know what they say,
you can't teach your old dog new tricks.
Speaker 6 (12:20):
So all these people that are running as well right now,
you know, the world is a very scary place.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
But the next generation coming up, that's what.
Speaker 6 (12:27):
We should be feeding, uh, to just show these kids
that they can love and be one with each other.
Because right now, I feel like, if we really understand
that we all really are brothers and sisters, we have
nine to nine point nine percent of the same DNA.
I know that because that's about the books and there's
like zero point three one whatever that number is. That
makes us different in who we are. So I'm like,
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we're really much more related than what we want to admit.
But once we actually understand it's a human race and
take all that other stuff out, yeah, I think it'll
be a I know it'll be a better place. So
my pastor, I go out and I read to children's
Miss Tina Knowles, Beyonce's mother.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
She's like a mom and me.
Speaker 6 (13:06):
She has the Angels and Warriors, her after school program
and Boys and Girls club in a sense where we
take the kids out on art projects, we take the
etiquette classes, art museums. We just it's a whole world
that we open these kids up to inner city youth.
It's like a hundred of them that we look out for.
So giving back to the youth and giving back to
my community, that's what I'm really really passionate about.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
That is so so awesome.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
I mean, you know, because as busy as you are,
and to say, you know, I'm going to make time
for this because this is a passion of mine.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
This is what I want to do, and you are
so right.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Feeding the youth of tomorrow with positive things and experiences
that they can take and run with is so key
to their success in the future and the success of
society in general. I mean, they are the way of tomorrow.
They're the future, and we have to pour into them.
We have to give them all we can, you know,
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and the world could be pretty harsh. So it's good
that you were You have taken that and you you're doing.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
What you are. That's great.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Well, speaking of growing as an artist, how do you
keep growing when you've already achieved so much?
Speaker 5 (14:18):
So funny, it's so funny because I didn't even realize.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
Even today today we have the unexpected Christmas premiere here
in Los Angeles in just like what two hours, and
so I guess it's just because my sister, who cuts
my hair, She's like, oh, this is about to be big.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
I'm like, oh, you know, cool.
Speaker 6 (14:38):
But I forget that. I don't know how I work
so much. I forget how big the moments are. Like
when I won Miammy, I remember having to apply back
and go right back and set. So what was the question.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Well, you know, you're just talking about all the things
you' basically you answered the question because you're talking.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
About all the things that you've done.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
And then you say when I won Miami and I'm like, okay.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
I think that you're growing.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
So I'm still get in class when can.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
I go to class every Tuesday when I can, And
it's a little annoying because as soon as I sign
up a class, all of a sudden, I get busy again.
Then I'm leaving like a scene partner hanging because I
can't go because I'm doing a premiere to that, you
know what I mean, Like it's premiere.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
I have something else. Even tomorrow, there's like a whole
nother thing.
Speaker 6 (15:31):
So I'm always in the gym because my mental space
so early in the morning. I'm always up if not,
I'm writing. I just created another show with my best
friend Alison. She was on Obliterated with me. We have
our own show that we're pitching. We've been pitching for
a good year now that we have some good stripes in.
So you know, I'm always creating or music. I have
music too, so it's like ADHD or whatever you want
(15:53):
to call it. I'm always doing something. But if I'm
not doing something, I'm always I'm napping. So I'm into bed.
Like thirty nine, I'm asleep. I'm not outside and club.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
If you want to find me after eight ten sleep. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
I love my math.
Speaker 6 (16:10):
I hated them when I was a kid, but now,
oh my god, nothing and.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
That ain't thirty.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Sometimes it's seven thirty. I'm like, oh my god, I
just go down already.
Speaker 6 (16:20):
You know, people like they expect when they see me,
like oh, we know you're going to be partying, or
people outdated.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
Like oh I just got more. I'm like, this is it.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
I do all that outside for you know, that's work,
But when I come home, I'm asleep.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
So the house is he.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
Said, I just watched that documentary last night, so it's
very poish.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
I can't you know, it's funny. John and I are
total opposite, and I guess I'm opposite of you. It's
just that I work nights and weekends all night life,
and so I'm still a night person and she's going
to bed at seven thirty, eight thirty, whatever it is.
And we send each other texts and we both know
that when she sends text to me in the morning,
(17:01):
I'm sleep and when I send text to her in
the evening, she sleep.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
But we get it together exactly.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
See I said, you lived together. The house will always
be covered like.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
There's always well, one of us would have to move
since I'm in Chicago. So yeah, So I'm going to
bring it down to We've talked about a lot of
dramatic stuff and serious stuff.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
We're going to go to comedy now.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
We were in the comedy series Be Positive, along with
such incredibly talented and well men cast, including of course yourself.
What was it like working in that series and what
did you take away from that experience?
Speaker 6 (17:41):
That was my first Oh you're hitting, So I'm taking
moments because you're hitting everything I've been talking about. It
Be Positive happened during COVID, so so it was during COVID.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
It's multi camp.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
So multi camp is usually you know, shot Monday through Fridays,
Thursday and Friday. You're usually on the stage in front
of like a crowd of people where you get real labs,
so be positive. We were there, but we had to
like pause for the labs that weren't there because people
weren't in the audience because it was COVID. But I
was just so blessed because that was my first series
regular and I was working with Chuck Lloyd in Amazing.
(18:18):
It was such an amazing show, so fun, and it
freaked me out because my grandmother was on dialysis in
real life.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
So when I walked in on the.
Speaker 6 (18:27):
Set and I saw the chairs, the chairs were the
same color as my grandmother's chair when she went to dialysis,
and I remember the machines, the beeping. It freaked me out.
So everything's just coming full circle. So it was it
really really gave me. I feel like it gave me
a whole nother superpower when it comes to MOLTI camp
because to hold to make a joke and then hold
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for the laughs in the middle of the joke and
then come back at the same note in the sense
of the joke to make sure that you land a joke.
It's all different type of exactly like what does he say?
It's a whole different type of world. So I learned
a lot. I grew out on that show, and I
was so grateful because that was my first series regular.
It was with the one and only Chudlrred, So it
(19:10):
was amazing.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
That is amazing.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
And and talk about a skill having to hold it
in the middle of you know, and then staying in
the moment or trying to that. That's a skill set
all on its own, you know. All Right, So let's
talk about this awesome movie that's coming out on November
seventh and Unexpected Christmas. Now, Pam and I have seen
(19:32):
the trailer, and I'm going to tell you, Terrence the trailer,
the movie's.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Gonna be phenomenal. I can't hardly wait. It is just
everything Christmas.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
I mean, our show is all about Christmas, but it
is everything Christmas feels, just from what if a trailer
could capture it. The trailer did, so it's it's awesome.
But what can you tell us about this movie without
giving too much away? We don't want to put in
bowlers out there.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
What can I.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
Do the movie if it was even with the production,
it was a lot of Christmas magic, okay, but the movie,
the movie, I would say that it gives you that
the feeling of like the Home Alans and you know,
just a good, wholesome family movie. Everybody can watch it together.
(20:24):
I'm so excited. I didn't know what it was going
to theaters. I just went to work. And when they
said like, oh, we're gonna be in theaters like a
couple of months ago, I was like, oh wow, So
like today is technically my first day.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
I say. My sister said, you literally are a movie
star right now.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
You can killing right, that's right.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
You know.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
Oh I'm not coming. I don't want to do any commercials.
I just want to be on TV. Or I'm not
doing TV. I'm just I'm film actor. But I've been blessed.
I'm I have the kit Kat campaign right now. I
did the Progressive campaign, so I have the TV. You know,
I've done TV in film. So this movie is like
I said, it's a good Christmas movie, wholesome, funny. It's funny,
(21:02):
and me and Lorell we go back and forth. It's
a whole like it's crazy. The whole cast is funny,
the timing was funny. Everybody was on points. So it's
going to give you that good warm like if you
like the pumpkin spice lattes or like the good Coco,
you know, like the good just that good, warm, happy
(21:23):
Christmas holiday feeling, which we all need right now.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
So I'm really exactly.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Yeah, exactly. Well, I'll tell you I cracked up looking
watching that trailer, and I was very very pleased to
see Anna Maria Horsford in the movie as well.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
So I bet yes.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
She worked on Be Positive too, And I watched her
as a kid, like because she had the same hairstynd
as my mom. At one point I'm like, oh, wow,
she looks like my mom a little bit, I said her.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
And she possibly made me well, I can't say that,
but it's possibly down the road. We may be working
together pretty soon again. But she's in it, and Littlerel's
in it, Rico's in it, it's your Table, the right Dominique.
It's just so many amazing, like funny people in it.
So yeah, it was really really fun.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
Yeah, I can't wait. Well, what's the most unexpected or
funny thing that's ever happened?
Speaker 3 (22:15):
She won set.
Speaker 6 (22:18):
Oh god, what happened? There's so many stories. I'm trying
to find me look and I'm running through right now,
runn through it. I'm like, oh god, the movie. I
have another film coming to theaters called Not Without Hope,
and that's based on It's a biopic.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
It's about the guys and uh, I know this is Christmas.
I'm sorry. It's about the passed away in a voting accident.
So it was real life. It's a real life biopick.
Speaker 6 (22:49):
And so we shot that in Malta, like next to Italy,
and we were in this tank right.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
So I was like, this is a film.
Speaker 6 (22:57):
I'm gonna, you know, if we're in water, and we
had scuba divers down there to protect us, and so
I wanted we had to go There was a shot
where they wanted us to go down where we first
flip off the boat and we had to go down
and have the reaction in front of the camera at
the water free camera whatever that.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
Was under there.
Speaker 6 (23:15):
And so I decided that I was going to do
the whole BayWa washting and make my make bubbles coming
out of my mouth in front of the camera, not
knowing that when you do that if you don't know
what you're doing, water goes back in your mouth. So
I took almost I don't know how much water went
into my stomach, but all I remember was.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
The water was in my mind.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
It shot.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
It was like the water did come.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
So I was basically drowning, and I remember looking and
the guys.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
Were down there to make sure we're safe.
Speaker 6 (23:46):
But remember it's a whole real vil pick about a
boating accident. So they think I'm acting, but I'm really drowning.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
In my mind.
Speaker 6 (23:55):
As an actor, I'm like, I can't call cut because
it's unprofessional.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
How So I all kinds of things running. Oh my god,
I about die.
Speaker 6 (24:02):
I'm drowing and my drowning I'm big, I'm drowning, and
so I pushed the camera.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
I come up in mind you there's one hundred and
fifty people come up.
Speaker 6 (24:10):
I come up and there's one hundred maybe one hundred
and fifty people on that dock thing watching us. And
I come up screaming and hollering because I'm driving, screaming help.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
And everybody's clapping. I was drying.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
So amazing, and so imagine drowning and people are clapping.
It was that was the most unexpected thing that's happened
to far.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
You know, that's just you probably got to be the
one drawback if you're an actor and people think you're
in the moment of a thing and you're really not.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
You're real life. You transition to real life, right.
Speaker 6 (24:45):
And then the guys came up afterwards and they was like,
were you was it real?
Speaker 5 (24:49):
I was drowning.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
They said, hey, do you think we can do a
hand signal to let us know when you're actingly not?
Speaker 3 (24:54):
We can't tell.
Speaker 6 (24:54):
I'm like, well, I was running, I wasn't thinking about
what hand signal to send.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
Y'all right, right, it looks so so real. You're so great,
You're so talented. I'm like, thank you.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
Well you should have walked out of the water on
land and bowed like you did it on purpose.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
I was like, give me out of this thing.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Yeah, oh, oh my god.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Well, before we wrap up, we've got a fun little
lightning round. We want to play five questions, no wrong answers,
and it's all Christmas, so you know there's that all right.
First question, what is your favorite Christmas tradition?
Speaker 5 (25:32):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (25:34):
When I was a kid, my mom used to, uh,
she pretend like they was the Santa Claus, but maybe
a couple of weeks before Christmas, two weeks she used
to give us coloring books and put us in our rooms,
and then she will then decorate the tree and do
the Christmas presents. She'll put the Christmas presents under the tree,
pretend like Santa put empty boxes under the tree and
(25:55):
they're empty, and so that Santa Cloud comes on the
twenty four for Christmas Eve. So I used to be
really fun because we used to really think like there
was magic happening upstairs downstairs and just being able. Then
we had a coloring book contest while we're up there too,
so I always won. So yeah, those are my favorite
little things. It always smell like peppermint and like cake
(26:16):
during that time.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
So yeah, really that's a great memory. What is your
favorite Christmas song? Uh?
Speaker 5 (26:28):
Was ith all the Bells?
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Carols?
Speaker 5 (26:33):
Yes, Carol the Bells. That's my favorite song, my Destiny
Child though I love it.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
See there there's no wrong version or bad version of
that song. I love it as well. It's just something
about it. It's just so nostalgic and and Destiny Child's
version is Chef's Kiss, you know, it's up there, all right.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
So what is your favorite Christmas movie?
Speaker 5 (26:59):
Home alone? After today?
Speaker 3 (27:02):
I respect the Christmas see, that's right.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
I have a feeling that's gonna.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Be one of ours too, all right, Hot Tiddy or
hot chocolate.
Speaker 6 (27:14):
Because I'm from the South and hot to put us well,
you know, we only got hot tidy when we were sick,
but it used to make you know, you'll melt you'll
melt away.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
And under those big blankets Grandma used to put us under.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Yeah, hot time, all right.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
And last, but not least, white lights or colored lights.
Speaker 6 (27:33):
White lights, I think white. I like classic, you know,
like and just simple. Those The color lights are just
they never turned it the blinking thing when you needed
them to, and then they would get stuck on one color.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
No, So just nice clear white lights.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Yeah, same either way.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
You can't go wrong as long as there's lights. That's all. Well,
thank you so much for playing along with our like
be around we solden, George your answers, and we thoroughly,
thoroughly enjoyed speaking with you today.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
I can't even tell you how much we love this.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
And we're so looking You're welcome, We're so looking forward
to the movie and we welcome you back anytime.
Speaker 5 (28:16):
Yes, please, I would love to you. Guys. I love these.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
Accents, oh things. Although we don't seem like we have
an accent, but other people hear it. Right.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
He always said that, and I know I do.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
And as much as I know, buddy, I can't help
North Carolina.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
I am.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Yeah, I'm as North Carolinian as it gets.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
So what are you doing right either, Terrence? You either?
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Well?
Speaker 4 (28:49):
Thank you again, and since we won't speak to you
before the holidays, have a great one and we'll talk
to you hopefully soon.
Speaker 5 (28:56):
You love, Let's get it.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Thank you so much, good bye, care alle you guys.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Thank you so much for tuning in to our latest
episode of Christmas Movie Spotlight.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Don't forget.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
You can find our podcast on iHeartRadio, Spotify, iTunes, Spreaker,
and more.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Just search Christmas Movie Spotlight spelled m u v i
e s.
Speaker 7 (29:19):
For even more, visit us online at Christmasmoviespotlight dot com,
follow us on our social media platforms, Facebook and Instagram,
Follow at Christmas Movie Spotlight and on X Follow us
at Christmas Movies, which would be X M A S
m u v i e S. Until next time, stay merry,
(29:39):
and we'll see you again real soon
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