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Danielle Cadet interviews Yara Shahidi , Halle Bailey & Teyonah Parris.
Peter Pan & Wendy currently on Disney +, The Little Mermaid only in theaters May 26, The Marvels only in theaters November 10.
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00:00What would you say to each other and to other black women who hear you're not supposed to be there?
00:05This is that character is not for you.
00:08Oh, I'll start with this one.
00:10Hallie, Yara, y'all are exactly and right where you are supposed to be.
00:17We need you.
00:19We are excited, so excited to have you here.
00:23The way you speak about the work, the way you speak about these characters, young girls, young black girls,
00:29young girls of all walks of life, not young girls like myself and all just all women in general.
00:36We are so and men, we are so proud of you.
00:40I am like I'm not that I am proud of you.
00:42Every time I see you, this is my first time getting in love on you.
00:45But every time I see you, I say I'm so proud of you.
00:47I'm so excited by what you're doing and what what how the way you're pouring into yourselves and the art.
00:55And you're exactly where you're supposed to be.
00:58And I love you.
00:59And on behalf of all the women, all the men, everybody, we love y'all.
01:04And we're so proud of you.
01:05And you keep walking this walk with your head held high.
01:08Thank you so much.
01:10It's going to make me cry.
01:11I know.
01:13Wow.
01:14Well, yes.
01:15I mean, just piggybacking off of you, you are meant to be here.
01:19You are special.
01:20You are important.
01:21This means so much.
01:22As are you.
01:24You are special.
01:25You are important.
01:26You're meant to be here.
01:27I just feel overwhelmed and just gratitude to have beautiful women like you who are helping me during these times to lift me up, to make me feel comfortable and knowing that I'm not alone.
01:41And I would just say that we have got to be strong.
01:47We have got to keep our heads on straight.
01:50And God is with us.
01:52And, you know, we're here for a reason.
01:54This is happening all for a reason, for the greater good.
01:57And I'm just so excited to even be in the midst of both of you beautiful souls and be a part of this conversation.
02:03And I'm just very grateful and grateful to be here with you, too.
02:07So I love you all.
02:09And this is wonderful.
02:12I think it's so beautiful to be able to share this space because so often we're the only ones in a room.
02:18And so to be the first of in these character roles but to not be the only ones is something that's bigger and better than I could have ever dreamed of.
02:30I'm so excited because Marvel is what got me into superheroes.
02:34I used to – I was excited to be on the Disney lot just to sneak into the Marvel headquarters to see what was happening.
02:41And so knowing that you're about to take on Monica Rambeau, who's a character that I love, and we get to see her on screen and give her the light that she deserves.
02:50And people get to love Marvel for the same reason I loved Marvel, which is because they saw us a little earlier than other people saw us, is incredible.
03:01And, I mean, Hallie, you already know.
03:02You have the voice of an angel.
03:04So I'm just excited that I get to – like, usually when I'm on Ox, there's only so far Ox can go.
03:08But now that I'm in the theater, it's about to be so loud.
03:12Your voice is about to be so loud and beautiful and angelic.
03:15But the only other thing I have to say is I think this is such an incredible moment of legacy, thinking about Sidney Poitiers and the Harry Belafantes and the Eartha Kitts and all the people that had to go through this really extremely uncomfortable moment of sacrifice.
03:31And I think I take solace in the fact that even the worst of what we deal with is a fraction of what they dealt with because of the work they did.
03:37And so thinking about the way you all handle this with such grace, meaning that the next – it's going to be a fraction of what you dealt with and a fraction of what you felt, I mean, is the gift that keeps on giving.
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