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Hot Ones - Season 29 - Episode 06: Teyana Taylor Battles One Hot Sauce After Another While Eating Spicy Wings
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00:00You should've asked me all the Q questions up top.
00:03You know what I'm saying?
00:04You start asking the deep ones as we get deeper into these wings, it's insane.
00:14Hey, what's going on, everybody?
00:15For First We Feast, I'm Sean Evans, and you're watching Hot Ones.
00:18It's the show with hot questions and even hotter wings.
00:20And today we're joined by Tiana Taylor.
00:22She's fresh off a Golden Globe Award win and Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress
00:25for her performance in the film One Battle After Another,
00:28also a Grammy Award-nominated musician as well.
00:30Her latest album is called Escape Room.
00:32But you know what?
00:33You can't run away from the wings of death today.
00:35Tiana Taylor, welcome to the show.
00:36Cannot escape the wings today.
00:39What's going on?
00:40How are you around spicy food before we get started?
00:43I'm a spicy food girl.
00:44I love spicy food.
00:45Like, everything I see, all my food that I cook,
00:48if you're gonna eat in my house, it's gonna be spicy, for sure.
01:14I just don't know what you planted in these wings, so I'm like...
01:18Cautious.
01:19You know?
01:20Alert.
01:20Mm-hmm.
01:21Very alert.
01:22Head on a swivel.
01:23Yeah, I can't trust you right now.
01:24You know what I'm saying?
01:25I get it.
01:25I get it.
01:26This is like we're literally trapped in an escape room,
01:28and it's only one way out.
01:30Through.
01:30No, it's either one of us gotta go.
01:32You know what I'm saying?
01:33It's like, you ever see those movies where it's like...
01:35Two enter, one leaves.
01:36That's what's going on today.
01:37Only one can go.
01:38Y'all figure out who gonna be the one.
01:40It's getting sore, you know?
01:42So...
01:42So this first one is Garlic Delight,
01:44and you'll start over to your right.
01:48Okay.
01:56I'm not coming in here being cocky,
01:57because the ones that be coming here talking shit,
02:02the main ones croaking.
02:04You recognize that pattern.
02:05I've seen that pattern many times before.
02:08Very smart.
02:09Yeah.
02:09So across your many projects,
02:11it's kind of mind-blowing how many luminaries
02:13across different disciplines
02:14you've turned into advocates and collaborators,
02:17you know, from Dionne Warwick to Lauryn Hill,
02:20from Matt Damon to Leonardo DiCaprio.
02:22So what's your approach to balancing
02:24being a student of the greats
02:26while simultaneously having the confidence
02:28to go toe-to-toe with them creatively?
02:30Ooh, I think...
02:32I think that's the whole point, you know?
02:34Me wanting to make them proud, you know?
02:36To go from being home and watching them
02:38to actually looking to the side
02:41and watching them be beside me is insane.
02:44And because I don't take that for granted,
02:46my goal is, like, is no turning back.
02:48Like, you see how neither one of us
02:49could escape this room right now?
02:50We can't.
02:51I can't escape the set.
02:52So I'm always just locked in.
02:55And even if I am nervous, I just...
02:56I gotta shake it off.
02:57The moment they yell action is just...
02:59It's up.
02:59I can see it today, you know?
03:01You're showing no signs of trepidation.
03:03You know, you're cautious,
03:05but you're confident.
03:06Yes.
03:07Careful.
03:08Aware.
03:09And on that note,
03:10are you ready to move on here
03:11to wing number two?
03:13Is this sriracha?
03:15This is.
03:15It's a pickled garlic sriracha here.
03:17Ooh, pickled garlic.
03:18Okay.
03:20Okay.
03:30All these people got me all flats.
03:33I'm a flats kind of girl.
03:35We pay attention to the rider over here,
03:36all right?
03:37We take a lot of pride in that.
03:38You know, it's very...
03:39It's given detail-oriented.
03:40I like this show already.
03:42I like it here.
03:44So, last summer you enrolled
03:46in the Escoffier School for Culinary Arts,
03:48pursuing a degree in both pastry and culinary.
03:51What has so far been the most challenging dish
03:53or technique to master?
03:55Have you tried your hand
03:56at the perfect beurre blanc yet?
03:58No, but fabricating protein
04:02is, like, so hard.
04:07But I ain't going to front.
04:08It's so good.
04:09It turned out so good.
04:11Worth the process?
04:12When you close your eyes
04:14and picture in your mind
04:15your dream Tiana Taylor restaurant,
04:17what's the picture look like?
04:19Can you paint it for us?
04:22That'll be something cool.
04:23I want to bring the skates back.
04:25You know, I need them to bring the skates back.
04:27Maybe a little duck.
04:30And maybe the seats look like
04:31you're in the drive-in.
04:32Like, maybe the seats is giving, like, car.
04:34It's sort of 50s era.
04:35Yeah, but like...
04:36I need the vision.
04:36And I think I want ta-da,
04:38chef jackets, like, or leather.
04:40I'm very extra, so...
04:41It's going to be something cute.
04:44I know that.
04:44Maybe, like, Patchworth or, like...
04:46You know, it's going to be something cute.
04:47You know, it's just the logo right there.
04:48Like, I know I need the logo right here.
04:50I need a big logo on the back.
04:51The merch will go hard.
04:52You already know I'm feeling merch.
04:54I got merch everywhere.
05:00I season my chicken and mustard.
05:04Once you season it,
05:06you got to marinate that thing in mustard.
05:08Getting lots of chicken tips already, you know?
05:11And we can use those over here at this show.
05:12Yeah, yeah, yeah.
05:12Me don't burn no chicken.
05:14You know, I don't play about my fried chicken now.
05:17Mm-hmm.
05:18So, in your documentary, Assembly Required,
05:21there's this scene where you're struggling
05:23through a pre-show sprained ankle,
05:26you have problems with the lighting,
05:27and it made me wonder,
05:28when you think about all your live shows,
05:30all the times that you've had to take stage,
05:32in a show where everything that could go wrong did,
05:35is there one that immediately comes to mind?
05:37I mean, that's all of them.
05:39It's always so chaotic backstage.
05:41I mean, dancer done lost a bra.
05:42This person can't find a pinky toe.
05:44It's just always so much going on.
05:47So, what I try and do is be like, okay...
05:49Like, if it didn't go as planned, it still worked out.
05:52Like, one time, my wig slipped back or whatever,
05:54and I wound up pulling it off and like...
05:56You know, I wound up swinging in a circle
05:59and the crowd went crazy.
06:00So, it's just like, yeah, I didn't go.
06:01It wasn't...
06:02It didn't go as planned.
06:02I didn't plan for my wig to fly off,
06:05but I made it a moment and it became even bigger.
06:07I can think quick on my feet and, you know...
06:11You embrace the chaos.
06:12Absolutely.
06:13I'm like an organized chaos.
06:15And you're embracing it so far in this show.
06:18Three wings down.
06:19Doing great.
06:20Are you ready to move on here to wing number four?
06:22This one with the lizard?
06:23This is the one with the lizard.
06:25So, we call this one a smoked habanero and peach.
06:27It's about to be some hot shit happening.
06:29I can tell by the lizard.
06:31All right.
06:33Ah!
06:35You know.
06:38I wouldn't be a greedy.
06:39I'd take as big as back.
06:46It's real good.
06:47What stands out as the most heated dance battle
06:50that you've ever participated in firsthand?
06:52Like, how closely does art imitate life
06:55when you're in a movie like Stomp the Yard?
06:57I think my most intense battle was in, like, third grade.
07:01And you still remember it.
07:02It was in, like, oh, I never forgot that day.
07:04It was on...
07:05It was recess, too.
07:06We ain't have no music.
07:08You know what I'm saying?
07:09And I just...
07:09I remember we just got it...
07:11We got it popping.
07:11They had to, like...
07:13I don't even know what was playing.
07:15Two entered.
07:16Only one left.
07:17You feel me?
07:18Yeah, yeah.
07:18We're on theme today.
07:19It felt like today.
07:21You know what I'm saying?
07:22It felt like today.
07:27Oh, it smelled good, too.
07:29It got curry in it.
07:31I feel like I'm getting greedy about a wing,
07:33and I don't like that because that's not smart.
07:36Mm.
07:36You know what I'm saying?
07:37Like, I feel like I've been...
07:37Like, you're violating your rule
07:38about being cautious.
07:40Yeah, yeah, yeah.
07:42I love anything curry in it.
07:43This...
07:44This gotta have some type of curry in it.
07:46Yeah, it has that powder to it
07:48that you're catching.
07:49Yeah.
07:50What's the most essential ingredient
07:51for a proper summertime Harlem block party
07:54in your experience?
07:55Good music.
07:56You know what's crazy?
07:57I never understood the importance
07:59of, like, DJs when I was younger.
08:00I was like, he talks too much.
08:02Play the song.
08:03But I realized that you have some DJs
08:05that do talk over the whole song,
08:07and it's horrible.
08:08But then you have DJs that know...
08:11You know, like...
08:11That have a spiritual connection to the vibe.
08:13You feel me?
08:14And they know,
08:14and you got a $100 bill,
08:15put your hand...
08:16What?
08:16What?
08:17You know what I'm saying?
08:17It just...
08:18They blend with the music.
08:21You know what I'm saying?
08:22And I love a call and response.
08:24I just love when people know
08:25what they're doing.
08:26So to have a good party for me,
08:27you gots to be a good DJ.
08:29Do you have a number one tip
08:30when it comes to mastering
08:31the jump roping art of double dutch?
08:34You don't know how to double dutch
08:35if you ain't holding the chest.
08:36You gotta hold...
08:37You gotta go like this.
08:38Even if you don't need to,
08:39it's just something about this
08:40that's just like...
08:40It's good luck.
08:41You know what I'm saying?
08:42And you gotta kind of like...
08:43You gotta like...
08:46Fumble a little bit.
08:46You gotta jump in.
08:47You're like...
08:48Oh, no.
08:48Hold on.
08:48Wait.
08:49Slow down.
08:50Speed up.
08:50Hold on.
08:51You hit that jump.
08:58You know what I'm saying?
08:59It's an art.
08:59I know exactly what you're saying.
09:01You know what I'm saying?
09:01It's an art.
09:02And then do you have a go-to order
09:04at Amy Roots on 116th Street?
09:07Ooh, Amy Roots, yes.
09:08I love cornbread
09:09and I love when they give me
09:10extra butter.
09:11I don't want the butter melted,
09:12but I don't want the butter cold,
09:13neither.
09:13It gotta be just enough
09:14to like...
09:14How you see it in the commercial
09:15when you just smear it on
09:16and then it start to melt on there.
09:17Don't send me no melted butter.
09:19Send it...
09:20I need it soft enough
09:22to melt on top.
09:25So you got the cornbread.
09:27Mm-hmm.
09:28You got the fried chicken.
09:30Crispy.
09:31You got collard greens,
09:32a little bit of hot sauce.
09:33Just want that?
09:34Mm-hmm.
09:35Baked macaroni and cheese,
09:36maybe a little bit of yam.
09:39Delicious.
09:40Mm-hmm.
09:45This smells like it's about to be
09:46some shit that's about to go down.
09:49Ooh.
09:54And this one to me
09:55is kind of sneaky,
09:56like kind of like one of those
09:57false first impression sauces.
09:59Groovy.
10:01Still dancing on it.
10:04Dancing, dancing, dancing.
10:06You are dancing on it.
10:08Dancing, she...
10:11So you gave an interesting quote
10:13talking to press backstage
10:14at the Globes
10:15where you said,
10:15honestly,
10:16if everything would have happened
10:17my way on my time,
10:18I don't even know
10:19if I would be standing up here.
10:20Do you think patience
10:21is underrated in Hollywood?
10:24I just learned
10:25that there's always
10:25something bigger in store for you.
10:28So even when you get that no,
10:30understanding that
10:31that no is also a win.
10:33And I think that patience
10:34is a part of knowing
10:35what's for you
10:36and what's not.
10:37You know,
10:38and when it's your time
10:38and when it's not.
10:39But I also have a sports mentality.
10:43You know,
10:44I'm going to wait my turn.
10:46I'm going to clap
10:46from the bench
10:47or on the court,
10:48you know,
10:48whether I'm six man
10:49or defensive player
10:50in the corner or,
10:51you know,
10:52like it doesn't matter.
10:53I know how to wait
10:55and understand my position,
10:57especially with a movie
10:58because now I'm looking at PTN.
11:00I'm like,
11:00listen,
11:01you're our quarterback.
11:02You know what I'm saying?
11:03Let him cook.
11:03Let him cook.
11:05I show up in my jersey
11:06and I'm ready
11:08to have a good game.
11:09And you know what?
11:10Sure hand so far.
11:11All right.
11:11These wings have not been
11:12too hot to handle.
11:14But if you're ready,
11:15we can move on
11:17to sauce number seven.
11:19This one's called Nirvana.
11:23Oh,
11:23I almost said
11:26That's a Havana, right?
11:30I almost said
11:32Okay.
11:43You're starting.
11:45I'm okay if you're okay.
11:46All right.
11:46Then we're okay.
11:48I'm okay.
11:49Since we're a team,
11:50you want to take a sip of water?
11:52Yeah,
11:52let's do that.
11:53Let's do that.
11:58I've heard you say
11:59of your early life,
12:00I was always in go mode.
12:01I'm from Harlem.
12:02I'm a hustler.
12:03I'm a grinder.
12:04Looking back,
12:05what do you see
12:05as like your boldest
12:07shoot your shot moment?
12:08Like,
12:08has there ever been a time
12:09where you've surprised yourself
12:10with your own instinct to hustle?
12:12Yeah,
12:13I didn't know how many things
12:14I was like
12:16collecting until now.
12:18I'm like,
12:18you know,
12:18like even signing up
12:19for culinary school.
12:20I got it.
12:22I didn't really surprise myself.
12:25Bitch.
12:30You know what else surprised me?
12:32What else surprised you?
12:34Going to Nirvana.
12:36You know what?
12:37I noticed
12:38that it was the first one
12:39that you didn't smell test.
12:40Because we was in
12:41like deep conversation.
12:42Yeah,
12:43right.
12:43Lost in it.
12:44Lost in it.
12:45Yeah,
12:45yeah,
12:45yeah.
12:45I took my eye off the ball.
12:47All right,
12:47I took my eye off the ball.
12:48I can't trust you.
12:48I'm going to earn it back.
12:49I'm going to earn it back
12:50along the way.
13:00Baby,
13:00I need you to stop
13:01asking me questions right now.
13:02Let's take a beat.
13:05Are you ready?
13:06I'm ready.
13:16Okay,
13:16man.
13:17Have my tongue involved
13:18in this one.
13:19Right.
13:21Come on,
13:21T,
13:21we got two more to go,
13:22bitch.
13:22We got two more to go,
13:23bitch.
13:24That's the athlete mindset
13:25right there.
13:26Just two more reps.
13:27Just two more reps.
13:29We're almost
13:29to the finish line.
13:31Almost at the finish line.
13:32What makes R&B music
13:34the realest bitch
13:35in the world?
13:36Can you unpackage
13:37that quote from Billboard
13:38in an interview
13:38from 2020?
13:40I said that right?
13:57There we go,
13:58that's the one right there
13:59to build the whole bitch.
14:00Straight from the jug?
14:01Straight from the jug.
14:02It's different.
14:06No stone is left
14:08unturned in R&B.
14:10You know,
14:10you get to be
14:11your most vulnerable.
14:14What you doing?
14:15Just trying to survive.
14:17You know?
14:18You chewing ice?
14:19Yeah,
14:19a little bit.
14:20Why don't you tell me?
14:23Oh,
14:24baby,
14:24you're selfish over here.
14:25Yeah.
14:27You praying on my downfall?
14:29No,
14:29never.
14:30No,
14:30I'm praying
14:31that we make it
14:32to the top
14:32of this mountain,
14:33all right?
14:34And then we get
14:34a beautiful view
14:36from the summit.
14:37That's always my goal
14:38going through this.
14:38I never want to
14:39take anybody out.
14:40I never pray
14:41on anyone's downfall.
14:42Never.
14:42You should have asked me
14:43all the Q questions
14:44up top.
14:45You know what I'm saying?
14:46You start asking
14:47the deep ones
14:48as we get deeper
14:48into these wings
14:49is insane.
14:50Make it look like
14:51I ain't got an answer.
14:51You see,
14:51I had all the answers
14:52in the world earlier.
14:53I was being bars.
14:54Now it's just getting
14:54a little crazy.
14:57All right,
14:57I'll try to come up
14:58with a cute one,
14:59all right?
15:00For this next one.
15:01It's too late.
15:01It's too late?
15:02I said the cute ones
15:02need to go up top.
15:06Okay.
15:12I'm going to say
15:12I'm going to say
15:13I'm going to say
15:14I'm going to say
15:14I'm going to say
15:14I'm going to say
15:14I'm going to say
15:14I'm going to say
15:14I'm going to say
15:14I'm going to say
15:17I'm going to say
15:21What makes
15:22Pretty Woman
15:22the perfect film
15:23in your opinion?
15:24Like,
15:24why does that film
15:25resonate so strongly
15:26with you?
15:27Oh, my God.
15:28I love Pretty Woman.
15:30That instantly
15:31just made the burn
15:31go away.
15:32I'm trying,
15:33you see?
15:34Oh, my God.
15:34I'm trying to reciprocate.
15:35That was so cute.
15:37You redeemed yourself.
15:39Pretty Woman
15:40is just so special.
15:41One,
15:41I love rom-coms,
15:43you know,
15:43and I love
15:44the idea
15:45of fairy tales as well.
15:46And I just love love.
15:48Julia Roberts
15:48is, like,
15:49my favorite person
15:49in the whole wide world.
15:50It was just my favorite.
15:52I had the biggest crush
15:52on Richard Gere.
15:58Say Pretty Woman again.
15:59Pretty Woman.
16:03Yeah,
16:03you know,
16:04it's just,
16:05it's so good.
16:06And it's one of my favorite films.
16:07And I just,
16:08I love what it talks about.
16:10And I just love Julia.
16:11Like,
16:11she just is bright.
16:13Everything she does,
16:14it just always feels so bright.
16:15And I just love it.
16:17I'm a rom-com girl.
16:19All right,
16:19Tiana.
16:24I'll be looking like a punk
16:26if I don't do that.
16:28What a fucking run.
16:29What a fucking run.
16:31How much you dipped in here?
16:35No,
16:35dip it some more.
16:36Okay.
16:36Dip it some more.
16:37I gotcha.
16:38Is that good enough?
16:39I want you to eat that part
16:41where you dipped it.
16:41Yeah,
16:41yeah,
16:42yeah,
16:42of course.
16:50And with that,
16:52the wings of death
16:53are behind us.
16:54And as we've learned today,
16:55there's someone
16:56who wears many hats,
16:57a multi-hyphenate,
16:59including
16:59aspiring pastry chef.
17:01If you could put together
17:03the ultimate
17:04antidote dessert
17:05to combat
17:06the wings of death,
17:07what would you whip up
17:08in the kitchen?
17:09Like,
17:09can you describe it
17:10step by step?
17:12I would,
17:14I would have to bake a cake.
17:16I'd have to bake a cake.
17:18Strawberry.
17:20Strawberry cake
17:21with a whole lot of ice in
17:23and a big ass
17:24scoop of ice cream.
17:26So,
17:26I mean,
17:26now that Pretty Woman,
17:27you know,
17:27Pretty Woman got me through
17:30one of these rounds.
17:31Yeah.
17:32You know what I'm saying?
17:32Mm-hmm.
17:34And now I want some cake.
17:35I actually want to go
17:36and dabble back into the,
17:37what was that curry one?
17:39Back into the tropical Amarillo.
17:42We don't have any cake,
17:43but we do have some ice cream.
17:45Tiana Taylor,
17:46here comes a bowl.
17:48We've earned it.
17:49And look at you
17:49taking on the wings of death,
17:51living to tell the tale.
17:53And now there's nothing left to do
17:54but roll out the red carpet for you.
17:55This camera,
17:56this camera,
17:57or this camera,
17:57let the people know
17:58what you have going on
17:59in your life.
18:00My current status
18:01is that I am dying.
18:04Only after that,
18:06from my casket,
18:08I will be releasing
18:09my Air Jordan 3's
18:12March 7th.
18:14And then,
18:15when I rise from the dead,
18:17I want you
18:18to go and watch
18:19one battle after another
18:20on HBO Max
18:21or I'll hunt you.
18:24And yeah,
18:25I'm dying.
18:36Good to see you.
18:37Oh.
18:38One bad after another shirt.
18:40Oh, sick.
18:41Mm-hmm.
18:42I told you, I'll make merch.
18:43Thank you so much.
18:43I know you do merch.
18:45Mm-hmm.
18:45I know you do merch.
18:48I got some Tia and Taylor merch.
18:50Yeah.
18:51I knew when you said it.
18:53But yeah.
18:54They can't take that away from me.
18:55I'll get you some sneakers, too.
18:56You will?
18:56I'll get some sneakers.
18:57Yeah, I got you.
18:59You're the best.
19:00And I got you.
19:01You know what I'm saying?
19:01Because we're a team.
19:02You know, you try to take me out.
19:03Because we're a team.
19:04I wouldn't go that far.
19:05Okay.
19:06You was chomping on ice without me.
19:08You still can't be trusted.
19:09I don't even know what's going to happen when I get in the car back home.
19:13A little bit of hot sauce.
19:17Hey, what's going on, Hot Ones fans?
19:19This is a very special announcement for the heat heads out there.
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