00:00So we're here today with beautiful Tika Sumpter.
00:10I'm so happy to be here.
00:11I mean, I was just like, you are just so beautiful.
00:14Thank you, as you are as well.
00:17I mean, every woman here, every single person is beautiful here.
00:22Love it.
00:23You know, we're having a great year on primetime this year as black women.
00:26Yeah.
00:26I want to know, you know, besides the haves and the have-nots, what else are you tuning into?
00:31Oh, my gosh.
00:32My show, Empire?
00:33Yes.
00:34Oh, my God.
00:35I love that show.
00:36I mean, the whole cast is killing it.
00:38Taraji, obviously.
00:39But I just feel like I love the layers in every single character.
00:43And that's a show that I actually, if I'm at dinner, I'm like, all right, guys, I got to go.
00:47Bye.
00:47Sorry.
00:48I never do that.
00:49I usually DVR everything.
00:51I literally am in front of the TV just eating popcorn, watching with wine.
00:56Yeah.
00:56So, you're one of those women that everyone is like, oh, well, who's Tika dating?
01:00So, I want to know, like, what are some love lessons that you've learned in your years of sort of-
01:06I think my love lessons that I have learned is to be still and to know that everything's going to be okay at the end.
01:13And every breakup, every break, whatever, it's a lesson in it.
01:19And I don't think anything's a mistake.
01:21Yeah.
01:22Yeah.
01:22I want to play a little fun game of this or that with you, Miss Tika.
01:26Yeah.
01:26Okay.
01:26All right.
01:27So, best romantic comedy in all, in the last 45 years, because we're celebrating 45 years of essence, you know.
01:34Oh, my gosh.
01:34So, I'm going to give you, is it Love Jones or Brown Sugar?
01:39Love Jones.
01:43Brown Sugar was good, too, but I love, love Jones.
01:46I love it.
01:46Yeah.
01:47So, best HBCU college movie, School Days or Drumline?
01:52I'm sorry.
01:55I just saw Do the Right Thing the other day again, and I love Spike Lee.
01:59So, school days.
02:00Sorry.
02:01Sorry.
02:02I was a young girl watching that, like, so impressed.
02:05Yeah.
02:06You know?
02:06And everybody was so beautiful.
02:07And there was, we have so many different complexions in our community.
02:10Yeah.
02:11And it's just like, wow.
02:12Yeah.
02:13Yeah.
02:13It's just a beautiful, it's a beautiful world.
02:16To have or to have not?
02:18$7,000 pair of shoes.
02:21To have not?
02:23I shall not do it.
02:24I can put that in an IRA account.
02:27Smart girl.
02:28Beauty and brains.
02:30Yeah, I like that.
02:31I like beauty and, I like brains and then beauty.
02:33That's great.
02:34I love it.
02:34We love having you here, Tika.
02:36And I just want you to finish this sentence before you go.
02:38Okay.
02:39Being a black woman in Hollywood is?
02:43It's a beautiful thing, you know?
02:44And I find strength in it, and I find a lot of love in it.
02:48And it's only something to look up to, to me, you know?
02:54And it's a celebration, to be honest.
02:56And who are you wearing today?
02:58I'm wearing Stella McCartney, and I'm wearing Christian Livingston.
03:02Love it.
03:02She always looks, I know, I hate, I'm going to sound like the old person.
03:06On fleek.
03:06Eyebrows on fleek.
03:09I know, I'm so like, what's fleek again?
03:12What is that?
03:13Bae?
03:14Huh?
03:14Okay.
03:15All right.
03:16Well, we love having you, and we'll see you inside.
