00:00What's up Essence Live? It has been a long, long summer, but it's not because of like the hot day
00:07parties and the brunches and the barbecues, but it's been a long summer because we had to go
00:10without our empire. But fear no more, it is back. And also back here on Essence Live, we have the
00:16beautiful and talented Miss Grace Gilly. How are you? Hi. Thank you so much for returning. Yes.
00:21Okay, I have tons and tons of questions. Okay, okay, I'm ready. So last time you were here,
00:25you were not engaged. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. How has that been? Has it changed
00:30your working relationship with Trey now that you're engaged and your relationship is public?
00:34You know, what's interesting is that we actually don't talk about our relationships. So...
00:39Which is a good thing. Yeah. Yeah, but I will say that we've always been professional and we always
00:44will be. Yeah. So there's never a moment where you're like, so before you left the house this
00:50morning, you know, you could have put your coffee cup in the sink or none of that. Oh, that's just me.
00:54I would do that. Okay, so last time we're waiting to see what was going to happen with Anika and
01:00Lucius and your whole triangle and you caught Lucius. So now that season two is back, where do we
01:07find your character and where, I know you can't spill too much, but where can we possibly see her
01:12going? Well, a lot of the alliances, like you said, are shifting. People that you don't think will
01:15go through a period of not talking will not talk. So I think that it's going to be really exciting
01:21to kind of see the opposite of what you saw last season a little bit. And I think for
01:26my character, she gets to show a little bit more, a few more dimensions, I think. And
01:32so you'll see her make you laugh, she'll make you cry, hopefully. So you get to see much more
01:38of her humanity this time around and you get to see how it shifts her relationships with every
01:43single person in her life. And getting to see more of your character may shift some people
01:47from Team Cookie to Team Boo Boo Kitty, if you will. You know what, though? I really hope
01:52that with this season, instead of being one or the other, that you could be both. Okay.
01:58Yeah. I think that's fair enough. Yeah. Because, especially as women here on Essence, you can
02:02kind of see both sides and kind of feel for both characters. Yeah, and some of my favorite
02:06movies or TV shows are the ones where, although there are clear protagonists and antagonists, you
02:12can totally understand where all of them are coming from. And it makes you just want to watch
02:16everyone's story, you know? And that's the way that life is. And that's what keeps us
02:20like this every week. I know. Yeah. So that's what I'm hoping for. And so your alliance with
02:26Yaz, are we going to see that play out a little bit more in season two? I think so. I think you'll
02:30definitely get a chance to see if they really are allied and in what way are they allied.
02:37You get to see if there's loyalty there or if that turns into something deeper, which is
02:42going to be really, really jaw-dropping. Because that dropped my jaw. Girl, it dropped
02:46my jaw. When you read it in the script, you're like, what? I read it in the script. I was
02:49like, wait a minute. No, page three. Did that happen? Just checking. That was me. That
02:55was me. I was like, wait a minute. She got to hit that low? Is that what's happening? Is
02:59that we're doing? Yeah.
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