00:00I have the pleasure of being joined by Miss Angela Bassett. How are you?
00:06I'm well, exceptional. Thank you, Dana.
00:08You are absolutely stunning.
00:11I just have to start with that.
00:12As are you.
00:13In my head, you're a vampire and you hold the key to life in youth.
00:16Okay.
00:17How do you maintain looking so fabulous? You have such a busy schedule.
00:21I think a lot of it's attitude, you know? And of course, you know, the regular diet and exercise, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:28Great makeup artist. But I don't do that every day. But yeah, yeah. I think a lot of it is the way you think.
00:35You know, or you may not know, you're a hashtag.
00:38Uh-uh. I'm a hashtag.
00:40Because you set Instagram ablaze. You were like, everybody's Women Curse Wednesday.
00:44If I pull the picture, there's nothing else to say. You're the hashtag Angela Bassett Arms.
00:49Oh, okay. All right. Well, I thank my trainer.
00:52Congratulations on being the first Female Six for Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege.
00:57I've been practicing saying that all day.
00:59What drew you to this project?
01:01Well, it came to me. It was offered to me. And when they said that, it was the, you know, the first time that a woman is portrayed six in the books or the video game world.
01:10I was like, hey, I like that. Especially with, you know, women being 50% of the gamers, you know, that's a statistic that I heard.
01:19So I like that. Because a lot of times we just assumed or it's the perception is that it's mostly men who, you know, are the gamers.
01:26One of my friends, I was at a little party and the young lady, she's a college student, she came up and she was like, I know you're six.
01:35I was like, what? She was like 21, 22, but she is deep into it. That's her world, you know.
01:42So I was very, very pleased that, you know, it's a woman, but a woman of color. So boom, boom, you know.
01:49Now I get scared very easily. So I have to watch it too. I do too, as do I. I do not like horror films.
01:55Really? Mm-hmm. That's not fun for me. It's not fun.
01:58So what led you to the American Horror franchise?
02:00Well, this is a little campy, you know, they can be a little campy and you can, you know, you know, tongue in cheek and rye and, you know, some of the issues that they deal with, you know, like when we were doing Coven, you know, really just all these women, you know, from Boston and from New Orleans.
02:17That was my favorite. Yeah. Yeah. Based on, you know, historical figures. It was very intense to mesh them in this world together. And, you know, so I found it funny.
02:28On the show, you play Ramona Royale. I like that name.
02:32Opposite the Countess, played by Lady Gaga. And we know her as such a larger than life character from her stage performances, her extra costumes, so on, so forth.
02:40So what was it like working with her in this different, I guess, more intimate capacity?
02:45Just wonderful. She's very warm, very engaging, you know, just light. She's a light being, light spirit. She's really sweet. And the other day, just the other day on the set, I mean, we were sitting on a couch like this and just, just chatting, you know, and we just appreciate her artistry and she ours.
03:03And it's just real, just real and regular. It's not over top and grand and sucking the air out the room and that kind of thing.
03:10So talented. Very, extremely talented. She's so talented. And a really, really nice lady.
03:15I want to transition right now to Chirac. The film's poster just released. And you're, there's a lot of controversy, if you will, over the content, over the title.
03:22Good.
03:23Can you tell me about your character in the film?
03:26I'm that community, you know, bookstore owner, you know, the one who's, you know, raised her, her family. She's from that community. She's from a certain community. She's there. She's rooted there. She has a business there.
03:39We're almost like, you know, Ruby Dee and do the right thing or something like that, you know, looking out the window.
03:45I see what you're doing.
03:46Right, right. But for today. So maybe not that nosy. But if you ask, I do have an opinion. I'm going to, you know, give you some, give you some wisdom or some knowledge or whatever.
03:56So that's how I saw the character. But yeah, despite being provocative, you know, a lot of times in our community, it's like, you don't want your slip showing or, you know, you don't want others to know.
04:07You don't want to hang it out there. We know this between our, between ourselves, between us, and we understand and we know what the deal is.
04:14But we don't want the outward, outside perception of us because it will shine negative light.
04:20But we need to have the conversation.
04:21But we need to because, you know, our potential is literally dying. Young babies, you know, our wisdom, grandmothers and mothers literally being killed.
04:32Like being killed. Kids, adults, young men, women who have never been a part of a gang at all.
04:40But you live where you live. And it's, it's a danger. It's peril, perilous. You know, so something, you know, what is that about?
04:50What is it about? Is it about a lack of hope, a lack of opportunity or what?
04:55So it's a conversation that needs, needs to be had, especially if numbers are greater than, than body bags from Iraq and Iran.
05:04You know, it's what? It's on your own soil, in your own, in your own home, against your own people.
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