00:00I think Queen's Tinder profile would definitely say,
00:03don't think we're going to have sex.
00:11Hi.
00:13Welcome to my Essence magazine cover.
00:31This movie is about two strangers who go on a first date and it's not particularly memorable or they don't
00:40really hit it off and on the way home they get pulled over by the police and the situation escalates
00:46into violence and they end up killing the police officer in self-defense and instead of turning themselves in, they
00:55decide to go on the run.
01:00I had had the opportunity to meet Carmen Cuba, wonderful, amazing casting director, powerhouse of a woman and, you know,
01:09we really hit it off and that was amazing because Carmen, then I saw that this project was out there.
01:17I saw like when the first press release happened and I literally wrote my whole team.
01:21I was like, what is this?
01:23Because it just seemed so fascinating already and then like, you know, Lena Waithe writing it, Daniel Kaluuya, who I
01:29was already a huge fan of.
01:31And then they sent me the script and I read the script and I was just like, I mean, I
01:35was floored.
01:36And I fell madly in love with Queen and then I was like, how do I get in on this?
01:41And Carmen was casting and I read for her and then I read for the producers and then I read
01:45for Melina and then I had a chemistry read.
01:48I mean, it was, it was a long process.
01:51They definitely, they made us work for it.
02:04Yeah, Queen and Slim meet on Tinder.
02:08I think Queen's Tinder profile would definitely say, don't think we're going to have sex.
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