00:00So when Swarm came along, it was Donald Glover, they actually wanted me to play Marissa, who
00:06is Chloe Bailey's character, and I was like, man, I gotta play Dre.
00:09I really wanna play Dre.
00:10So I got on the phone with Donald, and he's like, well, why do you wanna play Dre?
00:13And I said, you know, I never wanna catch up to my own self as an actor.
00:17I don't even wanna know what I'm gonna do next.
00:19And he was like, well, if that's the role you want, that's the role you get.
00:23And he just gave it to me, like that.
00:26He said, I know you could do it.
00:27And I was like, oh, wow, which was a sense of ownership over the character.
00:31It was so nice to say that somebody gave it and said, you can do what you, essentially
00:37what you want with it.
00:38And people say, oh, what does it feel like?
00:41It still feels like it's gonna work.
00:43Maybe it's a, I don't know, if a New York thing, or if it's like a black thing, where
00:46you're like, okay, what's the next thing?
00:47Like, do you ever actually sit in what you achieve?
00:50So right now, I'm learning how to sit in everything, say, oh, man, this is good.
00:54Like, pace yourself and not look for the next thing all the time.
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