00:00When I first met Dominique, it was 2016, and we were cast on our film Black Panther.
00:05And she was young. I think she was still in school at Cornell, and she blew us away.
00:12She got very far in the process, even to a chemistry read with the great Chadwick Boseman.
00:17But it ended up not working out. We went in a different direction, and I was crushed her.
00:20I wouldn't get to work with her on that project.
00:22But she was so good and so young, I thought that maybe one day our paths would cross again.
00:27Didn't have to wait long. Our company, Proximity, produced a film called Judas and the Black Messiah.
00:33And our incredible director, Shaka King, said, hey, I got this tape for this woman, for this part of Julie Herman.
00:40I really want to cast her. And I said, all right, let's take a look at the link.
00:43And she was supposed to be this kind of bruiser. She was a muscle for that chapter of the Panthers.
00:48I opened up the link, and boom, there's Dominique.
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