WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.090 --> 00:00:04.980 - Hi, this is Leslie Uggams and this is That's So Random. 2 00:00:10.710 --> 00:00:12.840 - So Marvel fans are excited 3 00:00:12.840 --> 00:00:15.570 and they can't wait to see you in the new film, Deadpool 4 00:00:15.570 --> 00:00:19.140 and Wolverine when it hits theaters July 26th. 5 00:00:19.140 --> 00:00:20.730 Without giving too much away, 6 00:00:20.730 --> 00:00:23.310 what can fans expect this time around? 7 00:00:23.310 --> 00:00:24.750 - Fabulousness. 8 00:00:25.710 --> 00:00:27.685 It is going to be 9 00:00:28.876 --> 00:00:30.209 not disappointing 10 00:00:30.209 --> 00:00:31.042 to the fans at all. 11 00:00:31.042 --> 00:00:32.428 They're gonna love it. 12 00:00:32.428 --> 00:00:33.969 So I wanna ask you a little bit 13 00:00:33.969 --> 00:00:35.985 about your character, Blind Al. 14 00:00:35.985 --> 00:00:38.220 And I've read some different interviews 15 00:00:38.220 --> 00:00:40.050 where people have called her kind of a, 16 00:00:40.050 --> 00:00:42.810 a gangster granny. That was my favorite. 17 00:00:42.810 --> 00:00:44.370 - I never heard that one. That's good. 18 00:00:44.370 --> 00:00:47.105 - But I understand that you've secured the part when the 19 00:00:47.105 --> 00:00:49.170 director heard you drop an f-bomb. 20 00:00:49.170 --> 00:00:51.210 Can you tell us a little bit about that story? 21 00:00:51.210 --> 00:00:54.395 - Well, it, it was the time where we was getting down 22 00:00:54.395 --> 00:00:57.300 to the wire, whoever was gonna be playing the part. 23 00:00:57.300 --> 00:01:01.770 And I had a, a meeting with the first director of the film 24 00:01:01.770 --> 00:01:05.250 and we were talking about all kinds of different things 25 00:01:05.250 --> 00:01:09.545 and where I grew up, which was in Washington Heights. 26 00:01:09.545 --> 00:01:12.570 And I don't know what I was exactly saying, 27 00:01:12.570 --> 00:01:15.660 but I dropped the F bomb and he looked at me 28 00:01:15.660 --> 00:01:18.990 and he said, oh, I love how you say that. 29 00:01:18.990 --> 00:01:23.990 And I thought, okay, little did I know what, 30 00:01:24.060 --> 00:01:26.685 how significant that was gonna be. 31 00:01:26.685 --> 00:01:28.876 I read that your American fiction co-star, 32 00:01:28.876 --> 00:01:29.940 Jeffrey Wright, 33 00:01:29.940 --> 00:01:31.907 who played your son in the film 34 00:01:31.907 --> 00:01:34.020 said that he always had a crush on you. 35 00:01:34.020 --> 00:01:35.610 How did that make you feel? 36 00:01:35.610 --> 00:01:38.280 - Well, thank God I didn't know it when we were shooting, 37 00:01:38.280 --> 00:01:39.780 and that's exactly what I told him. 38 00:01:39.780 --> 00:01:41.670 I said, okay, I'm glad you didn't share 39 00:01:41.670 --> 00:01:44.315 that information while we were shooting the film. 40 00:01:44.315 --> 00:01:45.720 But I .. that's wonderful. 41 00:01:45.720 --> 00:01:49.830 I mean, it's, it's, it's nice to know someone as talented 42 00:01:49.830 --> 00:01:52.380 as Jeffrey is, is was a fan. 43 00:01:52.380 --> 00:01:55.740 - You've had a long career, definitely in the industry, 44 00:01:55.740 --> 00:01:57.210 been on stage and screamed, 45 00:01:57.210 --> 00:01:59.520 but I understand that you started performing at the 46 00:01:59.520 --> 00:02:01.140 Apollo as a child. 47 00:02:01.140 --> 00:02:03.480 - First of all, I started at six. 48 00:02:03.480 --> 00:02:06.990 I did a television show with the great Ethel Waters. 49 00:02:06.990 --> 00:02:09.930 I played her niece for one episode. 50 00:02:09.930 --> 00:02:12.450 So that was really the beginning of my career. 51 00:02:12.450 --> 00:02:16.650 Being in front of the camera. I was always a ham. 52 00:02:16.650 --> 00:02:19.770 You just ask me to sing and I would be okay. 53 00:02:19.770 --> 00:02:22.865 And so when I did the Apollo Theater, 54 00:02:22.865 --> 00:02:24.125 it didn't scare me at all 55 00:02:24.125 --> 00:02:27.395 because I like to perform in front of an audience. What 56 00:02:27.395 --> 00:02:30.000 - Do you think has been your most challenging role? 57 00:02:30.000 --> 00:02:33.090 Role that pushed you way outside of your comfort zone? 58 00:02:33.090 --> 00:02:37.620 - Kizzy, because it was so much history that we, 59 00:02:37.620 --> 00:02:41.010 we talked about that never gets talked about in schools. 60 00:02:41.010 --> 00:02:43.590 It was difficult. I would go home at night 61 00:02:43.590 --> 00:02:46.980 and all kinds of things would be going on in my head 62 00:02:46.980 --> 00:02:48.540 and I would be calling up my mother 63 00:02:48.540 --> 00:02:50.760 and saying, I didn't know about this, 64 00:02:50.760 --> 00:02:53.700 but grandma never told me about these kind of things. 65 00:02:53.700 --> 00:02:57.030 So it was challenging to try to keep it together 66 00:02:57.030 --> 00:02:59.200 because I was playing a, a role. 67 00:02:59.200 --> 00:03:02.050 But it was, it was tough. It was tough. 68 00:03:02.050 --> 00:03:04.065 - Last question. In five words, 69 00:03:04.065 --> 00:03:05.710 can you tell our viewers why they should 70 00:03:05.710 --> 00:03:06.970 check out Deadpool and wooing 71 00:03:08.110 --> 00:03:09.110 - Honey? 72 00:03:09.110 --> 00:03:10.630 It's the best thing.