00:00Now it's the sit down with Blair Underwood.
00:02Hey Blair.
00:03Your book, A Soldier's Wife, My Mother,
00:06The Marvelous Mrs. Marilyn A. Underwood is out now.
00:09What inspired you to pen this book about her?
00:12When I tell people my mom's memoir is coming out,
00:13they ask, well, was she an actress?
00:16Was she famous?
00:17No, she was just my mama.
00:18And she's the person who inspired me.
00:20My parents are my heroes, really.
00:21She is the woman who instilled in me everything
00:25that I became and the possibility of hope.
00:30And she taught me how to dream and how to manifest
00:33those dreams and make it all possibilities.
00:35So the reason I wrote it was to really complete her dream,
00:40if you will.
00:41What advice or wisdom that helped you during grief
00:44can you pass along to others?
00:45I have since heard Joe Biden say this,
00:48but it really helped in that moment.
00:49And he said, now is not the time,
00:52but there's gonna come a time when the mention
00:55of her name and her spirit will bring a smile
01:00to your face before it brings a tear to your eye.
01:02The pain you feel that you, when you're in grief,
01:05that makes you hurt is because the love was so deep
01:09and because she loved so hard,
01:10which taught me as a child to love and as an adult to love.
01:13What the grief is about is four of those of us left behind.
01:17Switching gears, you're in One Spoon of Chocolate,
01:19written and directed by RZA of the Wu-Tang Club,
01:22from the Wu-Tang Clan.
01:22It's cool, because like RZA, as you said,
01:24from the Wu-Tang Clan, he wrote this and he directed it.
01:26And Quentin Tarantino was very much,
01:28and is very much a mentor of his.
01:30So I love that he came on board and he's presenting it
01:32and attached his name to it to elevate it to a certain point.
01:36This movie, One Spoon of Chocolate,
01:38really is an Avengers game.
01:41It really is about vigilante justice
01:45and a whole lot of revenge.
01:47You put that man in a coma, he was a bully.
01:49A movie like this has to win some sort of brownie points
01:52with your kids, right?
01:53You get brownie points with that.
01:54When you're down to the Wu-Tang Clan and with my kids
01:57and a whole lot of folks, Wu-Tang Clan and RZA,
01:59like, oh, no, that's cool.
02:00Yeah, I can go off and do all kinds of things
02:02that I'm having a great time with
02:03that they don't know anything about or care about.
02:05But whenever it's somebody they know or get excited about,
02:09you definitely get brownie points with the kids.
02:11Do they have a fave project of yours?
02:13A lot of them like The Long Legs,
02:15which was a horror film that came out last year
02:17with Nicolas Cage and I was doing The Ages of S.H.I.E.L.D.,
02:20which is the Marvel Universe.
02:21You know, they really were into that.
02:23So they don't mind seeing their dad on the silver screen then?
02:26They don't mind watching the film.
02:27They don't like seeing my naked body
02:29when I, like, sex in the city or whatever else,
02:31or some of the other ones I've done.
02:32They refuse, and I refuse for them.
02:35Mmm, that's spicy.
02:38To end, we're going to put 10 seconds on the clock.
02:40Promote anything you want.
02:42Ready? Go.
02:43I'm just excited that the book, my mom's memoir,
02:48The Soldier's Wife, The Marvelous Mrs. Marilyn Underwood,
02:51and also talk about One Spoon of Chocolate,
02:53which hits theaters May 1st,
02:55by RZA and the Wu-Tang Clan and Quentin Tarantino.
03:00Blair, thank you so much for being here today.
03:03Bye.
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