00:00I felt very lucky to be asked to be a part of this because I definitely do not get to share
00:05a lot of my work with my kids. They'll probably be in their late 50s before they see anything
00:11that I've done. I have the very solution to the problem, Karamir. We'll take a family road trip.
00:17What? You've always wanted to see more of this great country. Well, it's true. We have some of
00:23the best dark secrets as countries go. Then it's settled. We are going on an Addams Family vacation.
00:32Regarding your role in Addams Family Values, you've become kind of an action icon in the past
00:39couple of years. Just wondering how it feels for you to switch gears a bit and do something a little
00:44more family friendly, something you can take the kids to go see. Obviously, this is for families,
00:49and that was nice, but to also be part of a story that to me felt more relevant today than ever
00:55before, but also is maybe why there's been such longevity with the story. It's this idea that
01:00we have to create more empathy in the world for things that are different, things that might not
01:06look or sound like us. The more we can do that, the more I think we can all coincide with each other
01:13in a much more peaceful way because we can acknowledge that we don't want to all be the
01:19same. Families don't come in the same mold. All of that stuff to me felt like just a great
01:25opportunity for me to be a part of. Moving back to the fact that you are indeed a mother of two
01:31beautiful Black daughters. I know there's a lot of considerations with styling, hair, things of that
01:37nature. Of course, even within our community, there's an issue with colorism, things like that,
01:41loving your own skin. What considerations do you feel like you've had to take as a mother to
01:46help them move through the world as Black women eventually?
01:51Yeah, you know, I try to have consistent conversation so that it doesn't feel like we
01:57just talk about things when there's too much almost importance underlined, where they get freaked out.
02:05And so I feel like when there's consistency on how we communicate and how we bring up stuff,
02:10I find that with them, it's easier for them to just share and talk about these things. I'm also
02:17looking to them, right? They need examples. And so I'm trying to create that, give that to them so
02:23that they have examples so that when they say to me, I don't want to braid my hair. I want to just go
02:28natural for the next like two months. Then, you know, we can do that. It means we have to wake up at
02:354.30 in the morning, though, because they have a bus. And that's how long it takes to brush your
02:40hair out. But like, that's what we do. If that's what you guys want to do, then that's what we do.
02:44And we figure out ways to maybe braid you the night before and undo those braids. And then you have that
02:49natural hair. So it's a constant communication and also room for them to be able to voice what they
02:55are interested in. You know, they're very different. Both my kids are so, they're their own little
02:59individuals. They have different interests. They have different styles. They just have, they're
03:04just unique little people. And so I try to listen. I try to hear what they're saying to me.
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