00:00I was in like an all-black sketch show in Chicago and we needed an opening scene.
00:04And I was like, what could be a sketch with all-black people?
00:06And I remember watching a horror movie and being like, oh, if this sketch show,
00:09if we were all in a horror movie, who would die first?
00:12Because we all black. And then I said, that's the sketch.
00:30Essence!
00:32Ooh, my mama gonna love this.
00:34Come on, Essence, Ebony.
00:36Let me fix my posture.
00:37Let me fix my posture.
00:38Let me just...
00:39Essence!
00:40Essence!
00:41Okay.
00:42Not y'all straightening up your clothes.
00:44Cuz we ain't glist, we can't act up in front of y'all.
00:48No, we good. Be professional.
00:49Yeah.
00:50We got our professional hats on now. Okay, cool.
00:52My first question is for Dwayne specifically.
00:55You wrote this original comedy short.
00:59And Tracy Oliver was like so inspired by it.
01:03And I just want to know, one, where the inspiration for the short came from.
01:07And two, what does it feel like to see this get turned into a feature-length film?
01:12Yes. The sketch came from, I was in like an all-black sketch show in Chicago.
01:17We needed an opening scene.
01:19And I was like, what could be a sketch with all-black people?
01:21And I remember watching a horror movie and being like, oh, if this sketch show,
01:24if we were all in a horror movie, who would die first?
01:27Because we all black.
01:28And then I said, that's the sketch.
01:30And then I wrote it.
01:31And then for that, cuz knowing this idea came from me being high on a couch watching a horror movie.
01:38And then now it's in a whole movie theater across the world.
01:42Seeing that journey is like, I don't have words for it.
01:47It's like pretty mind blowing.
01:49And I'm still kind of processing it.
01:51I feel like I, the cast and crew screening, which happened not too long ago, was like a moment where I've realized that like, oh, this is now the emotions are coming.
02:02Cuz like this is now, now it's real.
02:05Cuz I'm pretty like, even killed for the most part.
02:08But now I'm losing my a little bit.
02:10But in like a good way.
02:11What's even killed?
02:12Even killed.
02:13He's just like.
02:14I'm not pretty sure.
02:15Oh, chill, chill.
02:16Well, with what you said, as far as it being, you know, how do we determine, you know, who's the blackest or who isn't?
02:23I wanna know from each of you, one thing that would actually get your black card revoked.
02:29Y'all love asking us this shit.
02:32Why y'all asking?
02:33We just got a big movie.
02:34Jesus.
02:35You know, you wanna get us all.
02:36Alright, fine.
02:37My musical taste, I think people would be surprised to know that I think I know every song in Selena Gomez's discography.
02:47Yeah.
02:48And people would know that.
02:49I got a Led Zeppelin collection.
02:51Mm-hmm.
02:52I like Michelle Branch.
02:54Cuz you're everywhere to me.
02:58Don't you sing that?
02:59Yes.
03:00Yes.
03:01Okay, this gonna get my black card revoked, and I don't know how Dwayne Jermaine gonna feel about this.
03:06I don't see.
03:07But I really love Friends.
03:11Here's the thing.
03:13I've seen every episode.
03:14I love, that show is so good.
03:18The jokes still hit.
03:20I'm sorry.
03:21And like, I get it.
03:22They don't have black people.
03:23But the way that I watched it, I said, yeah, the show's about white people in New York.
03:26100%.
03:27It's just me being like, look at these white people.
03:28Look at these white people doing these white things.
03:29Chandler's vids, it's just, they got...
03:31Chandler Bean, come on.
03:32Oh my God.
03:33Come on.
03:34I know.
03:35She's gonna turn off her camera on Zoom.
03:37I'm gonna love Friends.
03:38I won't.
03:39I'm a living single person, but I won't turn off the camera.
03:41No.
03:42And live a single down.
03:43I could transcribe every season.
03:45Scooty pooty.
03:46Don't play with me.
03:47I'm gonna give my scooter, period.
03:49But I do love Friends.
03:50What's your turn?
03:51Uh...
03:52Hey, hey, hey.
03:53Oh my God.
03:54My...
03:55Listen.
03:56All right.
03:57Okay.
03:58It's a border collie.
03:59And, uh...
04:01It's a border collie.
04:02It's a dog.
04:03It's a little...
04:04Is that the lassy dog?
04:05No, that's a, uh...
04:06That is a border collie.
04:07That's a type of collie, I think.
04:08Yeah.
04:09And, uh, it was between that or a pit bull.
04:11And I chose a border collie, uh, cause I've grown up around pit bulls.
04:14And I've noticed, uh, border collies attract all my white neighbors.
04:17And they all wanna...
04:19They all wanna talk to the dog.
04:21Well, you know what?
04:22That was good, Jermaine.
04:23No, that was smart.
04:24That was good.
04:25Because then his white neighbors will feel safe with him.
04:27If you had a pit bull, you know, the pit bull are the Negroes of dogs.
04:30They...
04:31Because they're judged.
04:32They scare people.
04:33They're labeled as aggressive.
04:34But they're amazing dogs.
04:35They're most loyal dogs.
04:36But that was smart.
04:37Good job.
04:38That was a good job, Jermaine.
04:39I chose a border collie for the kids.
04:40And he got kids.
04:41And he a black father in America.
04:42I chose it for the kids.
04:43No, you get your border...
04:44Yeah, yeah, yeah.
04:45Your border of a collie.
04:46Well, that's actually my time.
04:47So thank you all so much for taking the time.
04:49Oh!
04:50You're getting on an asshole, man!
04:51You're getting on an asshole, man!
04:52You're getting on an asshole, man!
04:53Well, sister, I'll see you at Renaissance.
04:55I'll see you at the concert.
04:56Okay.
04:57Okay.
04:58Bye.
05:00Bye.
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