WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.650 - [Leah] I mean, what I want is Tinsley back, 2 00:00:03.650 --> 00:00:05.890 but, you know, I mean I don't even know if I'm coming back 3 00:00:05.890 --> 00:00:07.768 for season 14. 4 00:00:07.768 --> 00:00:11.185 (smooth pop music plays) 5 00:00:12.300 --> 00:00:14.760 - [Jennifer] Was there more pressure to deliver 6 00:00:14.760 --> 00:00:18.080 on a season when there wasn't much to tape during COVID? 7 00:00:18.080 --> 00:00:21.137 - [Leah] There was not pressure. There was more like, 8 00:00:21.137 --> 00:00:23.960 "Hmm, this is difficult, but this is hard." 9 00:00:23.960 --> 00:00:26.830 Like, "I'm not really in a great mood right now." 10 00:00:26.830 --> 00:00:28.380 Like "My grandmother just died." 11 00:00:28.380 --> 00:00:31.220 We're talking about subjects that are like 12 00:00:31.220 --> 00:00:33.700 stressful to talk about on a public platform. 13 00:00:33.700 --> 00:00:35.760 It was just a different vibe. 14 00:00:35.760 --> 00:00:36.900 - [Jennifer] This was sort of filmed 15 00:00:36.900 --> 00:00:41.490 at the height of the racial tensions in the last two years. 16 00:00:41.490 --> 00:00:44.360 There's been a lot of feedback on whether or not 17 00:00:44.360 --> 00:00:48.300 this season dealt too heavily with race or social justice. 18 00:00:48.300 --> 00:00:49.850 What are your thoughts on that? 19 00:00:49.850 --> 00:00:53.430 - [Leah] I don't think that people should be censored. 20 00:00:53.430 --> 00:00:57.570 Like I don't want Ramona censoring me when I talk about sex. 21 00:00:57.570 --> 00:01:01.290 So I don't think that like, people have a right to censor 22 00:01:01.290 --> 00:01:03.500 what Eboni wants to talk about. 23 00:01:03.500 --> 00:01:05.670 Has it landed well with people? 24 00:01:05.670 --> 00:01:07.620 I mean obviously I think we can all see 25 00:01:07.620 --> 00:01:10.640 that people do want to watch the show to escape, 26 00:01:10.640 --> 00:01:13.340 but sometimes it doesn't matter what people want. 27 00:01:13.340 --> 00:01:14.173 You know? 28 00:01:14.173 --> 00:01:16.400 Like people want to talk about what they want to talk about. 29 00:01:16.400 --> 00:01:21.400 And also I'm not really sure how we would have a show that's 30 00:01:21.710 --> 00:01:24.200 in New York City during this time 31 00:01:24.200 --> 00:01:28.290 and not have it be brought up. Is this the best platform? 32 00:01:28.290 --> 00:01:30.990 It's the right place if it helped make a difference 33 00:01:30.990 --> 00:01:33.100 in someone's brain or life. 34 00:01:33.100 --> 00:01:34.240 - [Ramona] I'll get my help on. 35 00:01:34.240 --> 00:01:36.680 - [Eboni] She says she get her help on? 36 00:01:36.680 --> 00:01:37.910 - [Jennifer] I think your point too, 37 00:01:37.910 --> 00:01:39.890 it's hard to avoid what's happening in real life 38 00:01:39.890 --> 00:01:41.930 when this is supposed to do reality TV, 39 00:01:41.930 --> 00:01:43.490 is one to be considered. 40 00:01:43.490 --> 00:01:45.020 - [Leah] I think we did something 41 00:01:45.020 --> 00:01:47.170 that hadn't really been talked about 42 00:01:47.170 --> 00:01:48.770 on Real Housewives of New York, 43 00:01:48.770 --> 00:01:50.650 because there hadn't been a black housewife before. 44 00:01:50.650 --> 00:01:54.690 I understand politics has permeated every kind of aspect 45 00:01:54.690 --> 00:01:58.530 of our life. At this point, it does get exhausting. 46 00:01:58.530 --> 00:02:01.210 So maybe people felt like this is their last thing 47 00:02:01.210 --> 00:02:03.830 that politics has not touched. 48 00:02:03.830 --> 00:02:07.370 So people are reeling and people are frustrated 49 00:02:07.370 --> 00:02:09.360 and you know, we're dealing with a country 50 00:02:09.360 --> 00:02:10.810 that's very divided. 51 00:02:10.810 --> 00:02:13.610 And obviously people are going to be divided about the show, 52 00:02:13.610 --> 00:02:15.230 if we're talking about this stuff. 53 00:02:15.230 --> 00:02:17.630 I think people having such a visceral reaction, 54 00:02:17.630 --> 00:02:19.200 if you want to look at it in a positive way, 55 00:02:19.200 --> 00:02:20.970 it just means they love the show a lot. 56 00:02:20.970 --> 00:02:23.250 - I'm not putting on the colonizers uniform. 57 00:02:23.250 --> 00:02:24.120 I can not do it. 58 00:02:24.120 --> 00:02:25.420 - [Jennifer] You read in the news about this show 59 00:02:25.420 --> 00:02:26.450 every week. 60 00:02:26.450 --> 00:02:29.210 There's almost like daily reports of something different 61 00:02:29.210 --> 00:02:30.360 happening in the cast. 62 00:02:30.360 --> 00:02:32.090 Is there anything that you can share 63 00:02:32.090 --> 00:02:33.740 about what's happening behind the scenes 64 00:02:33.740 --> 00:02:34.890 that you're experiencing? 65 00:02:34.890 --> 00:02:36.590 - [Leah] With the reports of different things, 66 00:02:36.590 --> 00:02:38.890 I really don't know. I don't know what's true 67 00:02:38.890 --> 00:02:40.880 and what's not true. I have no idea. 68 00:02:40.880 --> 00:02:44.600 The only thing I can say is that us as a cast, 69 00:02:44.600 --> 00:02:47.250 we end on a really wonderful note together. 70 00:02:47.250 --> 00:02:49.560 And we're not in that place anymore. 71 00:02:49.560 --> 00:02:51.380 - [Jennifer] Despite what's true and not true, 72 00:02:51.380 --> 00:02:52.410 if you don't know that, 73 00:02:52.410 --> 00:02:55.470 what do you want to see personally addressed at the reunion? 74 00:02:55.470 --> 00:02:57.530 - [Leah] Basically the reunion needs to address 75 00:02:57.530 --> 00:03:00.950 not what happened during the season when we were filming. 76 00:03:00.950 --> 00:03:03.863 We need to address everything that's happened since then. 77 00:03:04.790 --> 00:03:07.930 Doing this show is very complicated and it's complex 78 00:03:07.930 --> 00:03:10.780 and there's so many nuances to it. There's what happens. 79 00:03:10.780 --> 00:03:12.860 There's what airs. There's how you spin it. 80 00:03:12.860 --> 00:03:14.360 There's this, there's that. 81 00:03:14.360 --> 00:03:16.210 There's also, like, how you, like, 82 00:03:16.210 --> 00:03:20.130 react to everything publicly when the show is airing. 83 00:03:20.130 --> 00:03:22.200 I handled it much differently this season 84 00:03:22.200 --> 00:03:23.130 than I did last season. 85 00:03:23.130 --> 00:03:25.430 Last season, before one of the episodes, 86 00:03:25.430 --> 00:03:27.710 I like did this whole Instagram post 87 00:03:27.710 --> 00:03:29.050 and like dragged Ramona. 88 00:03:29.050 --> 00:03:30.980 And like, I would never do that now. 89 00:03:30.980 --> 00:03:33.470 I feel like I've kind of just been like a bit quiet 90 00:03:33.470 --> 00:03:35.170 in terms of the press and show 91 00:03:35.170 --> 00:03:37.660 and like what I've been saying on social media and stuff. 92 00:03:37.660 --> 00:03:40.110 And for me, I liked that approach better. 93 00:03:40.110 --> 00:03:42.460 And I think that it works better for all of us 94 00:03:42.460 --> 00:03:43.293 when we do that. 95 00:03:43.293 --> 00:03:45.480 But like, you know, everyone's got to do what they gotta do. 96 00:03:45.480 --> 00:03:48.290 - [Jennifer] Is there ever a point with sort of like 97 00:03:48.290 --> 00:03:51.410 spillover drama off the screen where you decide like, 98 00:03:51.410 --> 00:03:53.770 you know what, I'm good with reality TV? 99 00:03:53.770 --> 00:03:56.404 - [Leah] Yeah, I'd probably think that, you know, 100 00:03:56.404 --> 00:03:58.552 once a week or more. Maybe once a day. 101 00:03:58.552 --> 00:03:59.500 (Leah laughs) 102 00:03:59.500 --> 00:04:02.530 It's a double-edged sword, like most things, 103 00:04:02.530 --> 00:04:07.010 but the good definitely outweighs the bad, for sure. 104 00:04:07.010 --> 00:04:10.268 Once it starts to not, then it's time to move on. 105 00:04:10.268 --> 00:04:13.018 - [Bleep] . You're full of [Beep]. 106 00:04:14.040 --> 00:04:16.480 - [Jennifer] If you were to stay on the show and you know, 107 00:04:16.480 --> 00:04:19.260 there's a shakeup and they want to bring back some OGs. 108 00:04:19.260 --> 00:04:21.810 Who do you think you'd really jive with? 109 00:04:21.810 --> 00:04:22.850 - [Leah] I would love Bethany. 110 00:04:22.850 --> 00:04:24.260 I would love, I've never met Bethany. 111 00:04:24.260 --> 00:04:25.590 So that would be amazing. 112 00:04:25.590 --> 00:04:28.550 Carol, probably not because she blocked me on Instagram 113 00:04:28.550 --> 00:04:29.810 and I have no idea why. 114 00:04:29.810 --> 00:04:31.630 - [Jennifer] Would you like to see Dorinda come back? 115 00:04:31.630 --> 00:04:32.670 - [Leah] Yeah. I love Dorinda. 116 00:04:32.670 --> 00:04:35.910 She was always like in my corner and always right there, 117 00:04:35.910 --> 00:04:37.916 to get to Ramona with me. 118 00:04:37.916 --> 00:04:39.610 (Leah laughs) 119 00:04:39.610 --> 00:04:42.563 So it was like a big loss, not having her around anymore.