00:01You think I'm being typecast?
00:07They're the urban characters, as they call them.
00:09Yeah.
00:09And growing up in the projects in Brooklyn,
00:11just because two people may live in the same building
00:14and the same projects may have felony charges for the same crimes
00:19doesn't mean they're the same person.
00:21As always coming up on my career, we don't want to see Reese curse.
00:23We don't like to see Reese do anything.
00:26She's likable, so she would never, like, have sex with a married man
00:29or anything like that.
00:30And in this course of storytelling, it always, like,
00:33cuts your character down to nothing.
00:35Right after I did The Help, it was barely in the can.
00:39I was all excited about the possibilities that were to come.
00:43Wow.
00:43And 90% of the role was like,
00:46we have this great role for you.
00:48And it was a maid.
00:49And we have this wonderful role.
00:51Yeah, it was a maid.
00:52And I'm thinking, you know, here's the thing.
00:54I just played the best damn maid role written.
00:58Amen to that.
00:59I don't have a problem with playing a maid again,
01:01but it has to top this one.
01:03My motto has always been,
01:04sometimes you've got to take on the role in order to,
01:06mold, in order to break it, you know.
01:09You have to, because when you're in a character,
01:13you can inject something new.
01:16And slowly, the barometer shifts.
01:18I was talking to this actress,
01:19and she was telling me, like, she was like,
01:21this is so great.
01:22I'm so excited to do this part,
01:24because normally when I get stuff,
01:25it's old people parts.
01:27And I was like, what is that?
01:28And he's like, oh, you know,
01:28I'm like falling down.
01:30I'm a rapping granny.
01:31I'm a rapping granny.
01:32Everyone has their feet.
