00:00You a 32-year-old baby daddy in jail who almost got her pockets ran until I put you on my credits.
00:08Yeah, you real grown-ass.
00:14You know, you were originally in the feature film. So how does the feature film differ from the TV
00:21adaptation? Well, in the film, we're dealing with, you know, two male perspectives and dealing with
00:32their friendship and how, you know, the color of their skin kind of changes their, you know,
00:39changes their narrative of who they are as individuals and how, you know, their friendship
00:45goes through a whole entire roller coaster in the Bay. And in the TV show, we're, you know,
00:56we're starting six months after the film. And now we're dealing with Ashley's perspective and how,
01:06you know, her life has been completely ripped from underneath her and her partner, her life partner
01:15that she's been with and has known since she was a teenager and kind of navigated life with has,
01:21you know, entered the prison system. And now she has to, she's worked so hard to create this new
01:27life for her family. And that's been taken away. And now she's got to move back kind of in this,
01:33into her old neighborhood that she's tried so hard to get out of and now live with his mother and his,
01:40his sister. So, you know, the show deals, it's a comedy that is very funny, but deals with a lot
01:48of important issues with, you know, dreamlike sequences and kind of this heightened reality
01:55where she gets to break the fourth wall. And also there's choreography in the show as well.
02:01And then you're also stepping into the producer role. So what was it like for you to also go behind
02:05the scenes as well as play the character Ashley on screen? Um, you know, I, when I got the call
02:12three years ago from Diggs and Rafa that, um, you know, they wanted to, to do, you know, Ashley as
02:20the lead and do her perspective. I, you know, I've been involved in the show kind of behind the scenes
02:26for three years. So I've seen the show go through right from the beginning, all the way to, to,
02:33to what it is now and to be a part of it creatively and be seen and heard and kind of have creative
02:40control over Ashley in a way that I've, that I've never really had has been amazing. And I've,
02:46and I've learned, um, so much through, through this process.
02:51And when it comes to Ashley's growth, because you touched on the fact that we're going to be
02:55seeing things from her perspective. So how will we see her grow throughout the show?
02:59I always say, I think, you know, Ashley's blind spot is that she thinks that she has to do all
03:07of this alone. And I think by the end of the show, she realizes that it is not perfect and there's a
03:15lot of tough love in there, but she does have a support system and it's not maybe the family that
03:21she has dreamed of, but it's the family that has been given to her, um, through, through new characters
03:28and through old characters. Um, and I think that's the biggest lesson that she learns and she kind of
03:35learns how to let go and trust that it will all be okay.
03:40And then my final question to you is what can we expect from blind spotting as a whole and what
03:50excites you the most about it finally being out in the world and released as a TV series?
03:57I think my most favorite part about the show is, is the storytelling is the way that, you know,
04:04we've, we've seen these issues been talked about before in TV and film. Um, they're not new issues
04:10at all, but I think it's the way that we tell it through the comedy, through the drama, through
04:16the dance, through the heightened verse, through these like amazing, brilliant, um, you know,
04:23heightened characters and how we use Oakland as a character as well. It's just new. And I've,
04:29I've never seen that before. Um, and it's, it's, it's super, super creative, um, and kind of has this
04:38theatrical undertone to it. Um, and I think that's what makes me most excited.
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