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- Going from the Broadway
revival to now this film,

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were there any new anecdotes

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or sentiments that you
both walked away with

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after having made this film?

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- Having two new cast members

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bring definitely new
experiences and new vibes.

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'cause, well, Corey, Corey's
not an unknown entity to us.

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Right. You know, and
Danielle slightly was,

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but we'd seen her perform.

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I had seen her perform

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and they are very, very vibrant, you know,

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personalities that came in

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and, you know, changed
some of the feeling of

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what we had done on Broadway.

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But, you know, definitely
bring different anecdotes

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because we laugh a lot.

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There's always some joy and, and,

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and a interesting thing
happening during the day that,

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you know, carries us through.

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- Was there anything new you learned

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or anything new you had to
incorporate when bringing this

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story to life in this way?

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- Some of his backstory had had changed.

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You know, I, I worked it, it's in,

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and it's in the script
where he was at the scene

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of the crime when he was
a boy with his father.

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That's not in the play
necessarily, you know?

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So, and that's sort of
now the sort of logging

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that the timeline of his emotional journey

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takes on a different life, which was cool,

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which was an interesting thing
to play and to incorporate.

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- I'm excited immediately to do anything.

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August Wilson, You, it's less scare,

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less fear,

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and more, it's, it's
more of an activation.

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Like you, it's nerve, it's
energy that you should lean into

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that is about muscle building.

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So as, as, as much as like

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people compliment in a way for,
for what has been witnessed,

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it's like, I want build my muscle too.

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And strength, you know, together

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enables you to do that.

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Something seriousness

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and seriousness is a totally different,

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is a different result in the equation.

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Discipline and discipline, driving.

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Everybody's moving in this
capacity to get to the greatest,

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the greatest result that we possibly can.

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- The audience in the uk,
when we premiered it there,

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they totally understood,
like, especially the,

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the, the exorcism.

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And it touched them like some

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of the people we got to talk to.

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It touched them in a way
that was very relatable.

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You know, even though like
it's an African American story,

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it, it's, it's, it's way bigger than that.

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- I would love to know for
you, like what is it about

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August Wilson

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and your family's
connection to August Wilson

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that keeps you all coming back

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to his work Time and time again?

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- I think we're all, just
as a culture, even outside

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of my family, August just
speaks, he speaks our language,

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you know, he, he, he, his
dialogue does it literally,

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his themes do it on a deeper level.

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And I think that we are one
of many families that continue

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to, to go back to the
well of August Wilson and,

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and find nourishment in it.

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It, it, it's a wonderful
lineage that, that he's created

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and crafted with his words,
and I'm just happy to

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and honored to be able to
work within that space.

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- Was there anything
exciting or surprising

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or anything that scared you
coming back to it in this way?

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- I think in theater, you know,
you can kind of self edit.

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You can, you know, shape a
performance night to night, day

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to day, that kind of thing.

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It takes a lot more faith
in, you know, the film

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and TV world to really say, Hey, look,

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I'll put my heart out there.

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I'm giving it to you to, you
know, edit however you will.

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And just trusting the
folks will, will, will

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hopefully do the character
justice and all of that.

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But after my first
conversation with Malcolm

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and his vision for each of
these characters in the piece,

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I was like, okay, I
know I'm in good hands.

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That's, that's not even a question.

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It's just, it, it became more
of a, a conversation about,

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all right, now how do I bring
down the performance from

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theater so that we can
make it work for film?

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- Yeah. That was the, the main
thing that I learned is that,

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that I'm an active participant in it.

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That I'm, I'm a part
of a much larger legacy

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and I, I get a chance
to write it every day

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and tell the story of
those who came before me

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and tell the story in my
actions on a day-to-day basis.