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In this episode of Pop Culture Weekly, I talk with
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the cast of the incredible Hulu exclusive film The Supremes
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at Earl's All You Can Eat. Let's go.
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Welcome to pop Culture Weekly with Kyle McMahon from iHeartRadio
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your pop culture news, views, reviews and celebrity interviews on
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all the movies, TV, music and pop culture u crabe Weekly.
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Here's Kyle McMahon.
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NT Nanna Net Hello and welcome to pop Culture Weekly
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with Kyle McMahon. I of course am Kyle McMahon, and
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we have a short episode today. We'll bring back the
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rotating panel of guest hosts next week and have a
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full blown, all blowout, blown out, blowout episode this week,
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though it is all about The Supremes at Earl's All
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You Can Eat. It is a brand new film exclusively
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on Hulu and it is really, really, really great. It
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is based on the book, the twenty thirteen novel of
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the same name that was written by Edward Kelsey Moore,
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and it stars Angenu, Ellis Taylor, Sana Laughin, Uzua, Duba
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Mackai Pfeiffer, Julian McMahon, Vondi, Curtis Hall, and Russell Hornsby,
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and I talk with Angenou, Sana Mackai, Russell Hornsby and
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the incredible actors that play their younger counterparts, Keana Simone, Tatzi,
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Gabriel and Abigail Achiri, an incredibly, incredibly talented cast. The
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film is really great, it really is. It spans decades
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and essentially it revolves around, you know, these friendships from
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these women and everything that goes into it. The logline says,
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it follows a trio of best friends known as the Supremes,
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who for decades has weathered life storms together through marriage, children, happiness,
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and blues. It really is an unabashedly authentic look at
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close relationships. That's what it comes down to. So let's
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just jump right into it. We'll start with the younger
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version of the characters. Here's my interview with Keana Simone,
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Tatzi Gabriel and Abigail A Cheeri. Hi ladies, Hi, So
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first of all, thank you for speaking with me. I
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appreciate it. I have to ask, did any of you
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or all of you read the book before the product,
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you know, before the project came into your life.
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I did.
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I love to read.
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It's like one of my random things that I people
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don't know that I love to do. But when I
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got the audition, I actually read the book before the
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script and I fell in love, Like I could not
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put it out.
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I read it in like two days. And Edward Kelsey.
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Moore like he just did such a phenomenal job like
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creating these beautiful characters with such different characteristics, personalities, nuances,
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and it was really great to like see the long
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form version of this story that's you know, made for
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a novel. And then to read Tina Maybray's like a
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beautiful screenplay, I'm like, wow, like this is so visual,
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so so beautiful, Like this is gonna be so so
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fun and emotional to see on screen.
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And I was like, I hope could be a part
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of it, and thankful that I am today.
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Yeah, and how about for the two of you, what
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drew you to the film.
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For me, it's just the friendship, the sisterhood. Anyone who
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knows me knows that I take sisterhood and friendship and
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community so like heavily. I don't take it lightly. So
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if you're in my life, oh we're rolling through life,
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and so getting to read a script and see these
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characters support each other through really hard times but also
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through really fun times. I was like, oh, I need
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to be a part of this. Even the first scene
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where Odette is standing up for Barbara Gee and I
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was just like, that's the stay inard of friendship that
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like I expect and hold myself and my friends too
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as well. And so seeing it played out, I was like,
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Oh my gosh, Oh my gosh, it's real.
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We should do this, Like I.
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Ever tell my team like please, like, whatever we need
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to do, I will do it. And so getting cast
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and I was like, oh my gosh, I was like
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how it felt so fitting because I just love friendship
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and sisterhood so much that it was honestly a dream
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come true.
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I love that. And how about for you, Toddy, I.
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Mean for me the same thing, like it was the
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what captured me was the friendship and the friendship over
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a lifespan, like and the sort of the lesson that
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that is of like how to maintain these friendships over
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a span of time, the work that needs to be
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put in, the heart that needs to be put in
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that was something that really drew me. And to see
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these girls that are coming from very different backgrounds that
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are allowed to be different and allowed to be themselves.
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And I feel like it's also the relationship that we
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shared like as Tati Abby and Gee like just seeing
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that blossom in such an organic way with something that
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was really intriguing to me, and then particularly for Barbagine
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of just like, oh like this character that did have
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a hard life and that was saved by these girls,
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Like and what that means to have people that aren't
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your lover, that aren't your family come and choose you
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and be like no, no, no, no, you don't got to
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be do the rest of this alone.
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We got you.
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That was something that that really drew me, and it
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just something that I think that the world needed to see.
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I love that.
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Yeah, And did you learn or or if and if
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you did, what was the biggest lesson that you've learned
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about friendship and sisterhood through filming?
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It that you that there will be lots of ups,
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but there will also be lots of downs.
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And that's what friendship is about.
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You can't you can't just you can't just the shiny
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parts of a relationship. And I feel like in The Supremes,
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that's that's what we see. I mean, the first time
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that oh, Dett and Clarice meet Barbara Jane is at
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a low point in her life, and that's like a
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testament to where their friendship will go.
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It's like you don't even get up from here.
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Yeah, Like they need her where she's at, and that's
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like that's the best part of friendship. And I feel
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like after doing this film, I just kind of appreciated
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more so how my friends have always stuck beside me
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in any season of my life, and how I will
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stick beside them in any season of their life.
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You know.
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And also that friendship doesn't have to look a certain way,
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you know, like at the end of the day, like
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whether your style is different, you have different hobbies, you
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have different interests, you have different tastes in men. At
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the end of the day, if you're pore values are
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all the same and all connected together, that is something
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that can sustain you through a lifetime.
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I think for me too, just like learning or being
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reminded that like in order to have a friend for
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a lifetime, the work that has to be put in.
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The commitment that the.
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Nurturing that has to be put in order to achieve
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that that, you know, I feel like sometimes we think
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like oh no, no, well this is this is my best friend,
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or these are like they're gonna be there, but it's like,
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well no, if you don't continue to grow with everybody's
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got to grow together. And I think that these girls
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very much do that. They grow together. They're willing to,
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like at any point highs and lows like Okay, no,
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I'm going I'm gonna always meet you where you're at.
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Yeah, that's and that's beautiful from all of you. And
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I think a lot of times with you know, especially
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in American culture, sometimes we forget that and kind of
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put friendships on like a secondary plane oftentimes, or you know,
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as a as kind of a side thing in life,
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where you know, those close relationships, in my opinion, are
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just as important as your romantic relationships and all those
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other relationships. Those are often the relationships that get you
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through the heartbreaks and when that romantic relationship might break
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up or whatever. So I think that the film does
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an incredible job of illustrating that, and of course the
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three of you ladies do an incredible job of illustrating
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that as well. So thank you, thank you. I can't
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wait for everybody to see it exclusively on Hulu. Thank
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you have a great day you too, Thanks Jiana Simone, Tatti, Gabriel,
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Abigail Chieri. Such joyous ladies and I'm excited to see
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where there there as their career progresses. All right, next
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up we have on Jane Ellis Taylor, Sanaa Lathan Mackai Pfeiffer,
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and Russell Hornsby. Thank you all for joining me. I
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really appreciate it.
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Thank you for having us.
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Of course, First of all, the film is absolutely spectacular.
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I think it is a beautiful story of friendship and
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love and perseverance, and it's just a joy to watch.
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And I wanted to ask you all, what is something
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you know that you took from this film that spans decades.
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You know, was there something about friendship and relationships and
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love that you maybe picked up on while filming?
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For me, it was really just more of an appreciation
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for the friends that you have, because you kind of
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you can easily take people who have been by your
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side for granted, you just assume that that's, you know,
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what everybody has, which everybody doesn't. But just having to
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work with these scenes and really realizing that these women
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are the women who kind of kept my character alive,
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like that these friendships are kind of like different types
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of soulmates. And it just made me reflect on, you know,
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my friendships in my life and have more appreciation for them.
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wants to go.
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we're saving each other's lives. And it's not a metaphor.
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We took her.
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Keys away from her because she was driving drunk. They
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you know, forced me to face something that was very
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serious that you know, I was not being proactive about.
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So I mean, I just think that's the gift of
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having women like that in your life. They really do
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save your save your life.
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Makai.
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it's it's it's a story that just hell true to
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my heart. You know, I can't say that there's one
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particular thing in my life that connected me with this.
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I think it's an array of experiences that that made
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this text intriguing and the comprehension of reading it. I understood,
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you know, the different dynamics and and I loved that
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you were able to explore so many different characteristics from
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so few people, and it just goes to show you
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the complexity of man, you know. And that's what I
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loved about this and how it relates to an array
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of people. It relates to so many people, and it
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transcends race by far. You know, you're a couple of
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minutes in and you don't really that's not your focus.
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Your focus is these people. And that's what I love
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about it.
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And how about for you, Russell, was there something that
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you learned about, you know, friendships and relationships while filming
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that connected you?
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You know? Again, as Are has said earlier, not necessarily
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in the moment, but I think that when I had
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an opportunity to sit down and watch this beautiful, lovely film,
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the in the beautiful lovely work of Angi, Nous and
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I and Uzo, it reminds me of the friends I
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have in my life right and so in that it
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helped me to understand and realize that as my mother
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used to say, that the greatest joy and the greatest
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gift you can ever show and do is living well.
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And I feel like when you have good friends, when
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you have good family, friends and family by your side,
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it is a sign that you've been living well. And
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that you've been living right, and so it reminded me
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of that.
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I love that had any of you read the book
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before you came across the script?
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I read it once once I knew I was doing it,
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just to kind of even though it's you know, it's
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loosely based on the book, you can't get everything in
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the book in the movie. I just read it out
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of curiosity to see if there's any any little gems
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that I wanted to keep. But by no means were we,
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you know, encouraged to pull from the book because it
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was all there in the in the in the script.
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And had anybody else read it, No, I hadn't, No,
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I got.
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No I read it.
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You did, I mean I did.