00:00The title of the film and a lot of the film shows women sort of asking what men want.
00:05But how do we remind black women, especially young black women,
00:09that they have the power to choose what they want?
00:12Like, what would you say to those women?
00:14I would ask them to come watch this film, What Men Want,
00:18because it definitely explores that.
00:21Ali is definitely a woman who takes with her at the end of the film
00:29that she always had everything inside of her that she needed.
00:32As a black woman in Hollywood, what is the truth that you feel that you have a responsibility to say?
00:39I mean, there's so many.
00:40It's complex when you're talking about a black woman.
00:43But I think for me, the things that I take on, you see through my work.
00:47I'm an artist. I'm not a political person.
00:49So I like to attack issues through art.
00:52So it's the projects I pick.
00:53You know, they're timely.
00:54You know, this film in particular, that Me Too, Time's Up, that is very real, and it's happening now.
01:02And I thought, wow, what a great way to teach.
01:04This is another opportunity for me to change a perspective of us women of color
01:09or to change a heart or to change something negative to a positive.
01:17And so I was like, wow, this is another opportunity for me to do it.
01:20So that's how I do it.
01:21I do it through my work because then when we sit down like this to talk,
01:25we can have intelligent conversations about certain things that maybe wouldn't come up
01:29if you hadn't seen a film like this.
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