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- Frolicking, walking
the dog, going off trail.

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- You definitely don't
live in New York City.

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- I do not live in New York City.

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- What's up good people?

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I'm DeWanda Wise, and this is
The Root's that's so random.

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- I'm really excited to talk

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to you about your series Three Women.

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So without giving too much away,

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just tell viewers what they can expect.

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- You can expect a lot of
sex, that's just really true.

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But no Three Women is an
exploration into the nature

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of female desire,

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and as it sounds like
there's a ton to explore.

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And for women on our show,
if you include our sort

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of like narrator puppet,
master Shalene who is kind

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of a proxy for Lisa today,
the writer of the book,

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- You and your husband who was played

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by the fine Blair Underwood
have, shall we say,

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brought other people
into your relationship.

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Tell us a little bit more about your

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character and what she's all about.

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- The way that I was
thinking about Sloan is just

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that woman on Instagram

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that you just like love envy look up

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to, you know what I mean?

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Who just has everything in order.

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Just like a well curated
life, you know, the career,

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the marriage, the child, like
just this person who seems

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to have it all, but it's like kind

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of peeling back the layer of that.

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It's like if you actually
got to meet that person

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and go to their house and
see what it takes to be

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or become that you might go like, oh,

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maybe nevermind.

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But I also hope that it
opens up a dialogue for women

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and this is the show at
large with themselves.

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You know, to really check in

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and think like, well what do
I authentically want for me?

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What is actually a good match for me?

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- So I'm sure our viewers
will recognize you as the star

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of the reboot of She's Gotta Have It.

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So tell me a little bit about kind of

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how you approached your
portrayal of Nola Darling.

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- We just had these like bevy just

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of the most beautiful
collection of black women.

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So for me, so much of

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who Nola became in a
present day iteration was

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there on the page, you know,

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and then all I had to bring was those sort

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of contemporary kind of
physical idiosyncrasies

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and maybe like some dialogue.

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- Tell me a song that
you can't help but sing

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whenever you hear it,

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- Wanna believe what you say.

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But I hit you on most days.

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You've been testing my
faith and my patience.

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It's hard place by her.

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- What is your style inspiration?

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Like where do you, like,
what are you thinking about?

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Like what were you thinking about

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when you got dressed today?

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- My style in general
is like, I like to play.

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I was a 5-year-old in the
dress bin in kindergarten

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who was like fighting over the

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dress that she wanted to wear.

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Like, you know what I
mean? Like all of it.

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This, a 5-year-old would do this,

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an 8-year-old would do this.

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So I think there's always
some element of, you know,

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bringing in that kid.

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- Tell me the last good book you read.

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- I am reading First Wives,
which is about the relationship

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between Eleanor Roosevelt
and Mary McLeod Bethune.

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It's a great reminder, especially now

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that we're like three weeks
out from the election,

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that like, oh look,
people working together.

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Remember that. That

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- Sounds nice.

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So in five words,

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tell our viewers why they
should check out three women.

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- Five words. Provocative, idiosyncratic,

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nuanced, sexy,

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and affirming. I

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- Think they're gonna have to
get out their dictionaries.

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That's the source. That
one. But that's great.

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I told you I would be dressing up.

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I'd just read, all I knew was read, I'd

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- Just be reading.