00:00Now in the first episode, your best friend Molly, shout out to Yvonne Orji, shout out to her. I love her. I love her. She's the best. But I love the scene where she's in the bathroom and she's crying because she's not married. And that damn Jamal has been married that other. Anyway, we ain't gonna talk about that. We're not gonna give it away. Spoilers. So, but why did you want to tackle that issue head on? The whole, the whole fear or insecurity that black women don't get married?
00:27Because it's a real conversation. It's not even something I necessarily wanted to tackle. I didn't want to say like, oh, I'm gonna highlight this in the show. These are like real conversations that we've had. There is like a fear a lot of my friends have that they'll never get married. And statistically, you see that constantly thrown in our faces that, you know, we're the least desired. And so just because just by nature of being black women, the subject's gonna come up.
00:52Now, I have secretly seen a couple of episodes of the show. Jay Ellis is not the only fine man.
00:58So, were cute boys a mandate?
01:01Were cute boys a mandate? I mean, if I'm being real, kinda. Cute boys and talent. Talent first. And if you were cute, it really gave you bonus points.
01:11Okay. But we just have, we have like super talented and attractive men throughout the show.
01:16And I love them because you got dudes who have regular nine to fives, you got the lawyers, you got the gangbangers. I even love the guy who works at Enterprise.
01:23Yeah. And I know I like, you know, all these dudes in my real life.
01:26But why was it important for you to have like a range of male characters?
01:30Um, you know, again, because those are the types of people I know. You said, you know, someone who like is like the person at Enterprise, we tapped into even just in the writer's room.
01:39We'd have conversations about, you know, dating and people that we were with and decided on creating like real three dimensional people, people that you would find in LA, people that you would meet at a party, at a group party, or, you know, just wanted to make it feel like you're, you're observing somebody's life.
01:58How has your dating life changed now that you're a TV star?
02:01My dating life hasn't really changed much.
02:04You're not getting access to like these big dudes?
02:07I'm not really focused on that. I'm like, big dudes?
02:10I mean, you know, like, you know, I don't know, they got seven figures, eight figures.
02:14No, I don't, I don't know that life. I'm still, I'm still super low key, like work and focusing on that.
02:21So a lot of women in our audience have dreams of doing something more, but they haven't found the courage to act on them yet.
02:27What piece of advice would you give them?
02:29You honestly got to get out of your own way. I know it's easier said than done.
02:32But like, for me, I've always had encouraging friends that I trust, that I know will keep it real with me.
02:38And slowly my network built of people that I'd share stuff with and they became more and more encouraging.
02:44And that gave me confidence to be like, I got this. I can pursue my dreams. I can, I think I have something here.
02:50And so I would say lean on the people around you and get out of your own way.
02:55If I saw 40 years before, I thought I would just like bounce off
02:57I thought it would definitely be like if don't wait!
02:58If I saw 60,000 verses, jump off!
03:00And that'd be really good for people!
03:10So how you guys want this journey?
03:16So how do we try not to speed back the pace?
03:18We've heard somequir screaming, hope and geld.
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