Jordin Sparks chats with THR at the 2025 BET Awards about her upcoming projects, including a movie, a podcast, and new music. Plus, she reveals what she is looking forward to most tonight at the BET Awards.
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00:00What is coming up next?
00:02I have a lot of different things.
00:03I think there's, not I think, there's a Christmas movie coming this next season.
00:08I love doing those.
00:09So there's a Christmas movie coming with Roku, actually.
00:13And then I have a podcast that I'm starting called What's Your Spark?
00:16It's in the early stages.
00:18We've got like the, I got my first episode down, looking for guests.
00:22But it's called What's Your Spark because I want to find out what drives people.
00:25It may be what we know people for,
00:27or it may be something that they really haven't shared with the world yet,
00:30but I want to know.
00:31So it's going to be authors.
00:32It's going to be athletes, artists, chefs, spiritual guides.
00:35I love talking to people.
00:36I love stories.
00:38So I'm really excited to dive in.
00:40Great name.
00:41Excited.
00:41What's your spark?
00:42What's your really perfect?
00:43Yes.
00:44And then music.
00:45I've been working on music.
00:46I have some songs I want to release for the summer, but I can't pick.
00:49I have a list, and I just need to bite the bullet and choose.
00:52And then I have some music that's coming out this fall,
00:55some collaborations that I've done that I'm really excited about.
00:58So, yeah, just, I'm grateful to still be here.
01:01Yes.
01:02We need that music.
01:04There's no summer song yet.
01:06So we need that.
01:06Right.
01:07I'm, you know, I'm coming.
01:08I'm trying.
01:09I'm trying.
01:10I hope people will like it because I, you know,
01:12I do a little bit of everything, like all my genre bending.
01:15So I'm like, okay, I've got pop.
01:16I've got R&B.
01:17I've got pop R&B.
01:18And I'm like, where am I going to go?
01:20But maybe I'll just put a couple of them out at the same time.
01:22Let the people decide, you know?
01:24Yes.
01:25Speaking of summer, we've also been asking,
01:27what's the summer blockbuster that you can't wait to see?
01:30Oh, you know what?
01:31Lilo and Stitch got me.
01:32It was so good.
01:34It was so good.
01:35Because, you know, sometimes when they remake them,
01:37sometimes they go a little left or they change a lot.
01:39But they really stayed true to the original story.
01:42And the people that they cast were perfect.
01:44I also am really looking forward to seeing How to Train Your Dragon.
01:48I'm such a kid.
01:48I am such a child.
01:50You're not the first person.
01:51How to Train Your Dragon.
01:52I do want to see L.E.O., that other one with the kid in space.
01:55I think that will be fun, too.
01:56And I'm trying to think of the next.
01:57I do want to see Wicked.
01:59I want to see the second one.
02:00I haven't even seen the first one yet.
02:01But I want...
02:02Wait, Jordan, you got to explain.
02:04I have a seven-year-old.
02:05I don't have three hours.
02:06I don't have three hours to just sit and watch.
02:09But if I were to ever go back to Broadway,
02:12that's the show that I would want to do.
02:14So I'm like, paint me green, please.
02:16Please.
02:17Did we audition?
02:19I did.
02:20Yes, yes.
02:21I auditioned for Elphaba.
02:22Yes.
02:23It was such a cool experience.
02:24I was just so grateful to even be considered,
02:27like, to even do the thing.
02:28But I'm so excited to watch it.
02:30I love the music already.
02:31I already know all the music.
02:32So I'm like, I can't wait to see it.
02:33And I love Ariana.
02:34That's my girl.
02:35And I love Cynthia.
02:36So, I mean, I know they absolutely killed it.
02:38So I'm excited to see both of those.
02:40And there was one other movie, and now I can't.
02:44Oh, Sinners.
02:45I'm late.
02:46No, that was me.
02:47I still haven't seen it yet.
02:49But I saw the preview before it came out.
02:50I was like, babe, we have to see this.
02:51And then everything was sold out.
02:52And I was like, we'll see it eventually.
02:55Eventually.
02:55I just bought it now.
02:57Yes.
02:57You can buy it.
02:58Oh, man, I missed it.
02:59I got to find a big screen to put it on.
03:01You know, it'll be good.
03:01It'll be good.
03:02But, yeah, I'm fine.
03:04It's okay.
03:06Valencia would have asked.
03:07We have four ultimate icons being honored tonight.
03:10Mariah, Jamie, Kirk, Snoop.
03:12Who is the one you had planned around your?
03:15Well, I am a lamb.
03:17Mariah is everything.
03:20So I'm very excited to see her get honored.
03:22And also Kirk.
03:23Kirk has been in.
03:24I have sang Kirk Franklin's song since I was teeny tiny.
03:28And I think he's such a great person.
03:30He's so fun.
03:31And I love the way that he, like, opens doors for everybody coming up.
03:35Like, I'm excited to see him get his flowers tonight.
03:37He deserves it.
03:38Yeah.