00:00In The Big Sicar, you play Huey Newton's wife, Gwen.
00:04Tell me, what was that preparation process for you when you were preparing for that role?
00:09Yeah, it was really just me trying to search out any little line,
00:14anything about her that I could possibly find because she's a very private person.
00:19And so there's no interviews.
00:21There's no, you know, there's a good two handfuls of pictures.
00:25And, you know, a lot of times I just have to read a bunch of stuff about Huey
00:29and hope that somebody would mention something about Gwen.
00:32So it was a lot of reading and research and trying to look for things.
00:35But also it was just trying to fill in the blank spots with Andre
00:40so that we could, like, make sure that she was full
00:43and their relationship had a full, you know, well-rounded thing for the show.
00:48So that's interesting that you said it, and filling in those blanks.
00:52You know, since you said she was really private
00:53and there wasn't a whole lot of information about her,
00:56how did you go about filling in those blanks?
01:00And, you know, how did you implement, I guess, your own style
01:04or your own little, you know, twist to the character?
01:07Yeah, I mean, for us, like, talking to Andre a lot,
01:11we were just really protective over their love story,
01:15just showing a Black love story like theirs, right?
01:19And so for me, filling in those gaps was like,
01:21I feel like it would be really easy to just be like,
01:23oh, Gwen was just, like, this ride-or-die chick
01:26who just, like, followed him around and, you know, told him yes whenever.
01:30And, you know what I mean?
01:31I think it's very easy to just be like, she was in love with him,
01:33so she just went to Cuba with him.
01:35But I think for us, it was, like, making it more complicated than that
01:38because it was.
01:40And I think even in the things that I read,
01:42people were like, she was the person that he could be himself with
01:46and who really saw him, and she didn't take any BS.
01:49So it was like, how do we fill that in?
01:51How do we make the balance between her being this really fierce woman
01:55who, like, you know, a lot of pictures you see of her,
01:58she's, like, looking like this at everybody, you know what I mean?
02:01But obviously, there was a softness there.
02:03She was a mother, and she loved him deeply.
02:05So we just tried to make sure that every scene,
02:09we can show a little bit of softness, playfulness, joy,
02:12and, like, the hard conversations they had to have.
02:16We'll see you next time.
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