00:00I
00:03Didn't mean to do this something inside of me broke
00:10I told them I need my money to get my daughter's medicine. She's sick. I just need to cash my check. That's all
00:19Hi, Lynette Nicholas with Essence. How are you good? How are you? I'm doing good. I feel great
00:34Thankful to be here now. We know jenny is a single black woman. We know she's under financial pressure
00:39We know that she does not have a network with her mom and her sister
00:42When you know characterizing her psychologically, how did you approach the script because there were so many triggers?
00:49She could have had in the day and there's so many layers. What was her back story?
00:54Her back story is that you know
00:57She's a mother first and everything that she does is for her child
01:01You know, that's what keeps her getting up every day because she knows she has this small human that she created
01:08Depending on her so her life is her child. Yeah, right and that's her drive
01:13That's what drives her. So when she can't do something for her child
01:18The world stops like yeah, you know what? I mean as you saw in the film
01:22It's like all I want to do is make sure my baby has what she needs absolutely and that's the desire of every mother
01:29Absolutely, and that's one of parents greatest fear to not being able to provide
01:32That's like heart-wrenching mm-hmm
01:35she even mentioned to
01:38Nicole the bank manager that when she goes to jail that she would want Nicole to have custody over her daughter
01:45Mm-hmm as opposed to her mother and her sister and everybody talks especially in black and brown communities we talk about sisterhood and we talk about it takes a village
01:52But can you speak to the reality that sometimes family is not supportive there's sometimes they can be your enemy?
01:59Yeah, what's the importance of having people around you to pour into you it is very important?
02:04Yeah, I you know the difference between jenaya and myself as a single mom is that I had that sister circle and that support team and jenaya did not
02:12Yeah, and it's so important because when you get to these breaking moments you need a team around you that's going to talk you off the legs or refocus you
02:21Yeah, there's nothing really noble to when you are under pressure and when you're about to break there's nothing noble about not reaching out to out for help
02:30Do you have any words of encouragement for the jenayas who will watch this movie and or the jenayas just out there?
02:38Um who are silently struggling you don't need to suffer in silence you are never alone if you speak out you will see many hands go up and say me too
02:47Yeah, so reach out. I don't know if it's other mothers or single mothers where your child goes to school reach out be a friend gain a friend
02:56Sometimes it's sometimes it's not your family. Like you said, um family is what you make
03:01Sometimes you create family outside of family with friends, but you you're never alone
03:06You're never alone. No human should have to suffer in silence
03:09Now as mothers, you know women we know that when we see other parents that's only a snapshot yes of their day
03:16Can you speak to the importance in your opinion of being of training ourselves to be active
03:21Listeners and empathetic to other people because sometimes we're so busy in our moment. Um
03:27It's easy for someone to feel invisible or unseen or unheard right? Yeah, which is what nicole
03:33Does for um jenaya and so does asia raymond a simple hello. Yeah, a simple real question
03:40How are you today? Yeah waiting for the response and actually listening to the response can save it save a human's life
03:47Please have a support circle around you to help you with that
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