00:00I remember being in high school seeing this sister on MTV rapping like wow she's
00:08doing it. So to be able to play in this movie with her about this woman's life
00:15Bessie Smith and you see the ins and outs and the ups and downs and I play
00:20Ma Rainey the woman who mentored Bessie Smith and you really get a chance to see
00:26this beautiful friendship between these two women that we oftentimes don't get
00:31a chance to see anymore and when I tell you there were scenes that we would do
00:37and when Dee Reese who wrote this and directed when she would say cut we would
00:42look at each other and say all right you are a Bessie she would say you are a
00:46Ma I'm all right because we totally embraced those women
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