00:00What is it like reuniting with the Color Purple cast here tonight at the SAG Awards?
00:04It feels amazing. I just love them so much.
00:07And, you know, it's so, I feel so, it feels so right that we're nominated for Best Ensemble
00:11because it really felt like that, you know.
00:14My cast meets that are at the top of their game and the height of their careers
00:16pouring into someone like me who is brand new to the industry just feels amazing.
00:21What would it mean to win a SAG Award and be honored by your fellow actors in that way?
00:25I would die. I would literally die.
00:28It would be so cool and it would just be amazing to be recognized by our peers.
00:33And it gets, like, people that I've, their work I love and I know.
00:37And so to be recognized by them would just be, like, be really validating for me.
00:41Is there one fellow nominee tonight that you'd love to work with in the future?
00:46Ooh, Lily Gladstone. Lily Gladstone.
00:49Just the essence, the beauty, the character. I just love them so much.
00:54Now, it's been an amazing award season for Lily,
00:57but also for Danielle from The Color Purple.
00:59What has it been like watching her award season journey heading up to the Oscars?
01:02No one is more deserving. No one is more deserving than Danielle Brooke.
01:05She is light. She is love. She is kindness.
01:09And she has a lot of fun and has, like, he still has the time to just reach out to me
01:12and ask how I'm doing and if I'm okay, if I need anything.
01:15And that's just a testament of a leader and a true artist.
01:18And I'm so happy for her.
01:20And since we are here at the SAG Awards, at what point in your life did you start claiming being an actor as your job?
01:25Like, when someone was like, what's your job? You're like, I'm an actor.
01:27Ooh, I just feel like when I got this film that I was like, okay, I've made it.
01:32But it's something I've wanted to do since I was little.
01:35Sorry to my mom. I didn't want to go to med school.
01:37She's here with me, so I hope this makes up for it.
01:39Is there someone in your life, and it could be your mom, who championed your love of acting at an early age?
01:45Oh.
01:47I had this amazing director. His name's Dan McDonald.
01:49I was 14 years old when I first auditioned.
01:51I was so scared that I did everything backwards.
01:54So he was to the front, and he was like, you can turn around.
01:57And I sang, did my lines all not facing him.
01:59And I turned back, and he was like, you're a star. You've got it.
02:02So learn to face forward and learn to love yourself.
02:04And I was like, thank you. And he's still a very dear friend.
02:07That's amazing advice. I love that.
02:09But I feel like that's something that really speaks to your heart.
02:11I'm going to carry that with me. Learn to love yourself and face forward.
02:14Yeah. And for him to just give me the space to know that I needed to just,
02:18and that forced me to turn and face him because I was so scared out of my mind.
02:21It was just so sweet and so kind.
02:23And for you having now done a musical for the screen, what do you prefer?
02:27Theater acting, being on stage, or being on screen and being on set?
02:31Woo!
02:32Theater will always have a very special place in my heart.
02:36But the eight times a week is very hard.
02:38And when you're on set, you can say things like, oh, I would love kettle corn.
02:42And it just appears in your trailer.
02:44So the perks like that are amazing, but they're just so different.
02:47I love the intimacy you have with an audience in theater.
02:50But in film, it has been really nice to watch it all come together
02:54and watch parts of the film I didn't even see while we were filming.
02:57So definitely still both.
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