00:00People probably put me into a category of either the light-skinned black actress, the
00:04biracial actress, but I enjoy opportunities where those things are subverted and I just
00:12get to be whatever character I'm invested in, in that role.
00:18Hi, I'm Logan Browning and you are watching Unbothered.
00:21I love the Netflix platform, Strong Black Lead.
00:25I also love the concept of Strong Black Lead.
00:28To me, that is taking the opportunity to put the faces of people of color in roles that
00:37are prominent and nuanced and developed and not just playing tropes or side buddies or
00:45characters that are only in a third of a film.
00:49I just want to find that next story that is going to allow the people who look like me
00:55in the world to feel empowered and to feel seen and to feel represented and for me, outside
01:01of all of you in the world, for me to feel fulfilled in my task as an actress to constantly
01:07challenge myself and constantly grow.
01:10I love where horror is going.
01:11I love where the thriller genre in general is being navigated and this movie, The Perfection,
01:18that I did with Alison Williams is no exception.
01:22Now, when I think about that genre, I obviously automatically think about what Jordan Peele is
01:28doing with Get Out and Us and God knows what else give us everything.
01:32For The Perfection, the first thing I prepared with was learning how to play the cello.
01:36My character is a cello prodigy, so it was very important to me that I had African American
01:42women as my instructors because that's who I was playing.
01:47I was playing an African American female cellist.
01:50Surprise!
01:50They exist.
01:51They're not unicorns.
01:52And they're fabulous.
01:53And they taught me well, well enough to play a cellist in this movie.
01:56To be able to play a character who's losing her mind is so much fun and I just hope that
02:05people feel like they are being represented in the genre that they also subscribe to.
02:12I love it because what's happening right now is that genre is being used as a vehicle for
02:19conversation, which is what art is.
02:24It's entertaining us, but at the same time educating us and enlightening us and allowing
02:31for us to have conversations once we leave the theater.
02:34I mean, I want that.
02:35I want to be challenged in my thinking and that's how I want to grow.
02:39My relationship with mental health is that I want my brain and my heart and my soul to
02:44be okay.
02:44And so I'm patient with them and I understand that not every day is going to feel the same.
02:50I understand that I don't have all the answers and I feel like we can safely say we live in
02:58a time where everyone experiences to some degree forms of anxiety and depression.
03:03They don't have to be clinical.
03:05This is, it's just the way of our world.
03:07We're moving so quickly.
03:08We all deal with it.
03:09And the way that I personally cope is to be honest about when I'm going through those
03:15moments.
03:16And I've been through dark moments and I have equated my dark moments to a photograph.
03:23We all love a photograph, right?
03:24And when you think about a real, when you think about film, you take the picture and in order
03:30for it to be developed, it has to sit in the dark room.
03:32So I look at myself in that way sometimes in order for me and, and my evolution to develop
03:40and for my healing to develop, I have to sit in the dark room.
03:43I'm okay sitting in the darkness because if you keep yourself exposed, you never develop,
03:49you never see the real picture.
03:50And that's, that's life.
