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Teyana Taylor talks about being part of history when it comes to her role as Imani in the new highly anticipated film, ‘White Men Can’t Jump.’
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00:00Well, one, you know, just the history of it, you know, I wanted to be a part of it.
00:04Reading the script, I thought it was really amazing.
00:06I love the fact that it wasn't necessarily, like, a remake.
00:10You get what I'm saying?
00:11It was more of a remix, like you said, being a love letter to the original movie.
00:14It's funny because you say that, because when people would ask,
00:17when we were going through the process and people start hearing more conversation
00:20about it in the social media world, and they were like, you know,
00:22so who's playing Rosie?
00:24I'm like, well, we got two women in it.
00:26I don't know if we got, like, a true Rosie.
00:28It's like, y'all don't have a Rosie!
00:30I was like...
00:30You just gotta let them see.
00:31You just gotta see.
00:32Yeah, you know what?
00:32And then after that, I was like, you know what?
00:34We're all Rosie.
00:35We're all Rosie.
00:36Rosie is a metaphor.
00:37Yeah, but because of, like, you know, she has such a big personality, a big presence, and...
00:42They thought it was you, yeah.
00:44Yeah.
00:44They thought...
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