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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Big Boy's Neighborhood on demand, Big Boy Neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Oh, it is a pleasure, Lady carry Washington, and welcome
to the neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Oh, thank you for having me.
Speaker 4 (00:10):
It's so good to be great to have you in
the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
I love it because you live in whatever our screens, so.
Speaker 4 (00:17):
To have you here is truly a pleasure.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Man, And we all dressed up for you too.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
I came in my color coordinated leather for you.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Oh go ahead now, damn you. I wore green yesterday.
I wish I would have known. I didn't get the memo.
But welcome to the neighborhood.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
And you got such a great history with.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Everyone in the neighborhood and everyone and that's listening and
watching because you put in the work.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Oh I try.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
When you do a movie.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Like Shadow for us, you you're doing a lot, even
if there is a stunt team like I even was
watching just some of the training videos, and that's one
of those parts where I would be like, I'm not
doing this.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Mine would depend on the editor because you see a
white dude flipping in. They were like, man, the editing
was horrible. Man, No.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
My goal was to have my stunt double b as
relaxed as possible. I wanted to do as much of
it as I could.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
I love it.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Yeah, I've never done a film like this full on,
and it was really exciting for me. It was challenging.
It was like, I don't know, I really felt like
I got to step into my strength in a new
kind of way, like, you know, not just my mental strength,
but like my really embody a level of fierceness.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
And for this character, you know, she's.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Such a badass that I really had to stretch because
I'm not a fighter. I'm not like I'm like one
of the only girls who grew up in the Bronx
who never threw down. But I really loved finding this
part of myself.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
So as you're reading this right, and I know that
you got a production credit, all yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Yeah, Simpson Street.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
So this is this is a project where you know
exactly what.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
I know what I'm signing up for mornings at like
four a m.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
Where I'm like in the backyard with the boxing gloves
thinking what in the world.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
But it was great.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
It was fun and also to do you know, a
lot of that training I did at home and to
have my kids see me transform in that way, to
teach them we can do hard things, you know.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
That's it's exciting.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
And to be honest, like when I read the script,
I thought, here is this powerful black couple. It's an
amazing story about two beautiful black people who love each
other and they love their child. They're invested in their family,
and they're taking on the world. And we don't get
to see each other. We don't get to see ourselves
in those roles in those stories, like to cheer ourselves
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on as badasses, to see us protecting our kids with
everything we have.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Like I just thought, this is so powerful and.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
The love and no scandal, no pun intending, but like
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Yeah, and I'm telling you I had a chance to
watch the movie, right, yes, and I don't want to
give away anything, but there's so much in it.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
I can't wait till people see it because it's easy.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
And when the badass appears, yes, it's when like the
bank scene.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Oh my god, you saw the bank scene.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
I'm just like, I'm like, that's that's probably how I
need to whoop somebody.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
As carry Washington in the.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Neighborhood, Shadow Force may Big Boy's Neighborhood.
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Do you go to the theater like when Shadow Force open?
Will you go and sneak in?
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (03:34):
I like to do that. I like to see the
audience respond. I like to see that joy that it
brings people.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
It's fun.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Yeah, and just going in quiet, unannounced. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
And you don't get to do that with a streamer,
you know, when my films go to streamers, you can't
be sneaking into somebody's living.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Room to watch them, watch them, be behind them like.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
You.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
But yeah, why was it important for it to go
to theater?
Speaker 5 (04:03):
I think because you know, one thing I'm really proud
of as a producer with this film is it's not
a lot of CGI. Like, this is not that kind
of film where it's like computer generated AI images.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Flipping through the screen. We're not doing that.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
This is real people doing real stunts, doing real action.
We put our real bodies on the line and so
to see that on the big screen is really exciting.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Also, the locations like to see Columbia. It's beautiful.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
It's vast, like we're in the ocean, we're in the mountains.
To really take all that in in the theater is
really great. And the music, I mean when I walked
in here, you played Linel Line Richie. He's like the
fourth family member in our family, right, it's like a
mother of father, son and cousin. Line.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Yeah, the soundtrack you yes, he really is.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
And so that to get that music and surround sound,
to let that overwhelm you, it's just it's great.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Why Linel Richie? You know, because was that you who
showed me I heard dressed up in like twenty twenty
two or something where you dress up like that.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Yes, it was right after we finished shooting Ge. You
can love Linel. I listen.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
I had a poster of Linel in my bedroom when
I was a kid, like no Shade.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
My dad came home with two posters.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
My girlfriend I grew up with in the neighborhood, Nicole,
He had who knows what, he probably at the barber
shop somebody was selling posters and he came home with
like a Michael Jackson posting a Line Richie poster. And
I was like, I want the Linel poster. I have
always loved Linel. You know, he's had one of those
careers with the Commodorees on his own, He's he has been.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
With us for so long.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Yeah, that there are so many memories you can attach
to Line, you know, his throughout his career, whether it's
brick house or hello right like you you go yes yes,
or like endless love, Like it's just he really has
been with us in so many ways. So he felt
like the right person to be the soundtrack of their life.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
And it was and it was great moments too, like
like missing moments, and then the connection with truly yeah
you know, and was that you with.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Your with your love for Lino Richie as far.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
As like oh that was in the script. So I
was like this is meant to be.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Yeah, you know when people were like look at God. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
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Speaker 4 (06:21):
When was the last time you auditioned?
Speaker 3 (06:23):
It's been a minute.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
You don't even like.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Fake auditions, Like like, even though you know that your
company did your movie, you didn't go in, come in
and read for it.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Yeah, might as well you get yourself a callback.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
I've been in a lot of auditions on the other
side of the table.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Now that's because you've been on both sides of the table.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
It's great because I know how scary it is to audition,
And when I started producing, it actually helped me to
audition better because I got to see, like, oh, you
know what people want you to win. When an actor
walks in the room, you want them to solve your problem.
You're not looking for You're looking for them to be
the answer to your.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Problem, like, yeah, I want to get this done.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
Yes, yes, And so it helped me to be a
better auditioner when I started producing and directing. But it
has it's been a long time.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Are you still doing live auditions? Are you doing auditions
over zoom zoom? But some live auditions sudden And you
know what's wild about that is that you've been there
and do you know how to shift the emotion now
where like, you know, this is the gig, they didn't
get it kind of thing, as opposed to.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Feeling like oh yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
I think the longer you're you're at like anything in life, right,
the longer you do it, the more understanding and master
you have. One of the things that happened for me
in my career was when I looked back, I realized
that everything I didn't get it was for a good reason.
Like there were two television pilots that I made before Scandal,
and when I tell you I got fired from both
(07:52):
of them, I'm not kidding. Both shows went to pilot
without me. They recast my role wow, and shot and
reshot the pilot.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Well, we already know Carrie Washington at that time, right, yeah,
I mean I.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Had already done some work, but it was like, you're
not right for this.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Which is wild.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Did the shows go?
Speaker 5 (08:15):
One of them went, one of them didn't, right, and
the one that didn't. Here's what's interesting. So I was
so poor at the time. I had no money. I
was living in this tiny apartment in East Harlem that
I shared with like seventeen other people, and I was
I needed this.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
And this was a it was a series.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
It was shooting in Miami, and they were like, we're
we're gonna hold onto the whole cast and pay them
while we rethink the pilot.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Except for you.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
They told you that.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
Yeah, so this whole cast got to live in Miami
and party for like six months and just chill and
get paid by HBO, just living it up. And I
was devastated. But in that window of time is when
I got my audition for Ray. And if I had
been tied up in that TV show, I would not
(09:03):
have been able to do that movie.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
And that movie changed my career.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
The first time I went to the Golden Globes, first
time I went to the Oscars, first time I was
on the cover of a magazine was for that movie.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
There are no mistakes.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Made, no mistakes, you gotta trust.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
You know what's wild about that is at the moment,
what that must have fixed.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
It was devastating. It was devastating.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
You feel rejected, You feel unlovable, You feel like, is
this never gonna happen for me? Why am I not
good enough? I mean I remember feeling horrible. Oh yeah,
But then this script came along and I was available,
and I got it.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
And you seem like such a professional person.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
You know, and glad I've made you think.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
And I'm saying that.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
And the reason why I say so is because once
I booked Ray and just things that come after that,
that whole cast that went to Miami without me, I'll
be like, yeah, y'all back, Yeah I didn't get it.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Huh Like yeah, man, I would.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Have chased my mom. I would be like, we had
the golden globe.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Yeah, but it's crazy, and we always say it.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Look at God and what's supposed to be for you,
what's meant for you?
Speaker 4 (10:21):
God willing, You'll get it.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Got to stay strong.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Kerry Washington in the Neighborhood Shadow Force, May ninth, Big
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Does it feel like people are going back to the theater. Yeah, Yeah,
that's what I love about it. Man.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
We've been at the movies a lot. It's great to
be back to be in community.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Yeah, because I enjoy sitting at the house and I
enjoy watching something. But even watching Shadow Force. I was like,
I gotta go see this in the theater, you know.
And then my wife because I was watching headphones because
I couldn't get it on my TV. I have an
old ass laptop personal probably it was it wasn't Lion's Gate,
It's me, you know what I'm saying. And so my
wife kept looking over my shoulder and I was like, baby,
(11:10):
I said, you're too far in to watch. Yeah, you
know what I'm saying. And she love like that kind
of action.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Yeah, especially when it's action with heart.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Yeah, you know why why the shooting is happening. When
the explosion happens and you're emotionally invested in the explosion,
that's what.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
And she's that mom.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Yeah, okay, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
And she she's that mom that would jump out the window.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
How old are your kids?
Speaker 4 (11:34):
My son is eighteen and my daughter's sixteen.
Speaker 6 (11:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
My daughter has a boyfriend, So I need you to
come by.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
Do we like him to be like theriend, Yeah, we do,
we do.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
We do like him, you know what I'm saying. We
love them.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
No, okay, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
I would I be highly upset that they broke up,
not at all, as long as as long as if
she was if she broke up and she was happy,
I'd be like, hey, good, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
And you're oldest, you don't mind.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
Asking, No, I don't mind you asking. My oldest is
nineteen and male or female female? Okay, so she's you
girls and a boy. Yeah, yeah, so you've been through
the Yeah we're in it. How serious everything is? And
I'm like in it, man, yeah, I probably just send
my daughter over there with you.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Then you know what I'm saying, because yeah, you're saying
you got a better grip on it. It's being a
parent one of the hardest jobs you ever.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
Had, though it is, but it's the best, most ful feeling.
Like I just I love being a mom. Being a
mom and being a wife are my two favorite roles.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Really, and like how do you do the balance? Though?
You know? Because you got it?
Speaker 2 (12:40):
And I always say that they're and I'm saying this
to people before we got these things called enough and
everybody got their own enoughs and you probably got enough
where it's like, man, I gotta be you know, a
good actor enough, I got to be a good producer
enough I gotta be good mom, enough, good star enough,
you know, and then there's the black enough, street, enough,
board room enough.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
There's all these.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Enoughs that come with you may get me tired, And did.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
You really say there? Damn wow, I got some work
to do and that's a lot of.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
And I've.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
So how do you handle all the enoughs?
Speaker 3 (13:15):
I mean, I ask for help. Nobody does it alone.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
I think sometimes in culture we want to think that
people do it all by them. Everybody's a renaissance woman
where you can do it all, be it all. And
I'm I don't do it all. I have people at
work and at home who are support systems for me,
you know, partnerships at work at home. Like I don't
raise my children alone. I mean, I can't imagine being
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a mom without the husband that I have. I can't
imagine being, you know, running my production company without my partner,
Polar Savone, like like this is it's partnership is everything.
There's power in partnership and their strength and asking for help.
You know, you don't have to do it alone.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
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see the movie. We will see it as as as
a crew, but I gotta go see it with the
Queen first, so we could do date night.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
You can't, Mariana, what do you mean?
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Why?
Speaker 6 (14:23):
Why?
Speaker 4 (14:23):
I mean?
Speaker 3 (14:24):
I want to go what's wrong?
Speaker 4 (14:26):
If we did date?
Speaker 3 (14:26):
What happened?
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Yeah, maybe carry can give her some advice on Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Are you not dating? What's going on? Okay?
Speaker 4 (14:32):
So I know earlier you mentioned how partnership is so
important to you and I'm still out here dating. Okay.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
You it's really hot on these streets.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Yeah, it's tough.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Yes, So you know, I was wondering if you can
share some dating advice with me. Oh wow, yeah, dating
is it's not going to happen. I know that we're
coming to.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
That in a few years. We're going to be back
in the neighborhood talking about.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Look at God?
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Are you writing in prison?
Speaker 3 (15:05):
I'm just be honest, be up front.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
Right Like from the beginning, it's don't don't do the
facade thing, because then you just have to spend time
like unraveling the lies and the pretending, like, be truly
be yourself so that you don't have to switch it
up and change the game later on and ask that
of the other person. Just be like, just be real
with me, like I want. Your truth is important to
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me because then you'll really know who you're dating.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Yeah, Amightna?
Speaker 3 (15:34):
What do I say all the time that they always
send their representative.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Don't send your representatives. Your authentic self is all jokes, Acidey.
She's such a great and beautiful lady, and I'm glad
that that she don't waste her time on knuckleheads and
saying what that works over here?
Speaker 3 (15:51):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
God, but you deserve you deserve goodness. You know you
deserve so. But also stay open. This is the other thing.
No one person has to be everything to you. Because
I've seen you know, talking to girlfriends. It's like, well,
he doesn't like Indian food. I'm like, then eat Indian
food with your sister, Like you don't have to. He
doesn't have to like everything you like. You don't have
(16:16):
to go everywhere you go. You can have friends who
you do like. If he doesn't like karaoke, you do
karaoke with your friends who like karaoke, and then you
come home to.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Him and do the things you guys like to do.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
So just remember too that not every not one person
doesn't have to be all the things to you. You
can have lots of people in your life that you
love and spend time with. Your partner should be your
favorite person, but they don't have to do all the
things and like all the things that you like.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Okay, wow, and you almost.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Say it that word for word.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
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Speaker 4 (17:02):
Did you and Jaylo go to the same Boys and
Girls Club.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Or d Did we did?
Speaker 6 (17:05):
So?
Speaker 5 (17:06):
Jennifer and I lived in the same neighborhood and we
had this beloved dance teacher, Larry, who got really sick
jay Jennifer is a little bit older than me, so
when Larry went to the hospital, she was like one
of the big girls. I was like eight and she
was a teenager and she stepped in to teach some
of Larry's classes. So I actually learned to dance from
Jennifer Lopez.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
I'm not as good as Jennifer Lobez, but yeah.
Speaker 6 (17:29):
How.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Is not wild? And honestly she's part of She's right there.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
Yeah she is like you know when they say if
you don't see it, you can't be it, Like you
have to see it to be it. Like I remember
finishing my homework on Sundays so that I could watch
in living color because I could see Jennifer.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
And you knew that was her, yes.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
And so there was a possibility of like maybe I
could chase this dream, like if even though we all
know that Jennifer was different, it was like Jennifer I.
You know, everybody knew Jennifer would be on the cover
of magazines one day. She just always had that thing.
And I didn't see myself as being that girl. But
I did feel like there was a pathway from the
Bronx to Hollywood, and it was partly carved by her.
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You know, before us, it was Rita Moreno and Diane Carolyn,
but she was in my lifetime somebody who I knew
who made it.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
And you know what's wild is I think a lot
of people see that with you as well, you know,
and not just then, you know, in front of the camera,
but in front of the camera, behind the camera, in
the production making you know what I'm saying, sitting there
making sure that the green light is for us and many.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Others as well. So thank you for coming into Shadow Force.
We're looking at May.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Ninth, ninth, Mother's Day weekend.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
There it is, and we gotta go.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
We gotta go out first weekend too, because we're we're
we can either help or hurt Hollywood's right, not just
our Hollywood, but period to.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
Create opportunities when we support the work that's out there.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Yeah, so thank you for coming into the neighborhood Washington.
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When we did catch up with Will Smith on the
Red Carpet, we had to ask him about the movie.
What does this feel like when you see the world
come out once again?
Speaker 4 (19:25):
You know what?
Speaker 6 (19:26):
It is shocking and all inspiring to see that after
thirty years this might be the biggest of them all.
That people want this one as much as, if, if
not more than the three previous films. The fact that
it's still growing thirty years later is an absolute blesser.
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and over again. Sometimes you're like, man, let it be
what it is. But this is one of those bro
where if it was animated, it's like the senses this
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Oh, it is a pleasure, Lady carry Washington, and welcome
to the neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Oh, thank you for having me.
Speaker 4 (00:10):
It's so good to be great to have you in
the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
I love it because you live in whatever our screens, so.
Speaker 4 (00:17):
To have you here is truly a pleasure.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Man, And we all dressed up for you too.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
I came in my color coordinated leather for you.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Oh go ahead now, damn you. I wore green yesterday.
I wish I would have known. I didn't get the memo.
But welcome to the neighborhood.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
And you got such a great history with.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Everyone in the neighborhood and everyone and that's listening and
watching because you put in the work.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Oh I try.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
When you do a movie.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Like Shadow for us, you you're doing a lot, even
if there is a stunt team like I even was
watching just some of the training videos, and that's one
of those parts where I would be like, I'm not
doing this.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Mine would depend on the editor because you see a
white dude flipping in. They were like, man, the editing
was horrible. Man, No.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
My goal was to have my stunt double b as
relaxed as possible. I wanted to do as much of
it as I could.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
I love it.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Yeah, I've never done a film like this full on,
and it was really exciting for me. It was challenging.
It was like, I don't know, I really felt like
I got to step into my strength in a new
kind of way, like, you know, not just my mental strength,
but like my really embody a level of fierceness.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
And for this character, you know, she's.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Such a badass that I really had to stretch because
I'm not a fighter. I'm not like I'm like one
of the only girls who grew up in the Bronx
who never threw down. But I really loved finding this
part of myself.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
So as you're reading this right, and I know that
you got a production credit, all yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Yeah, Simpson Street.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
So this is this is a project where you know
exactly what.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
I know what I'm signing up for mornings at like
four a m.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
Where I'm like in the backyard with the boxing gloves
thinking what in the world.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
But it was great.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
It was fun and also to do you know, a
lot of that training I did at home and to
have my kids see me transform in that way, to
teach them we can do hard things, you know.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
That's it's exciting.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
And to be honest, like when I read the script,
I thought, here is this powerful black couple. It's an
amazing story about two beautiful black people who love each
other and they love their child. They're invested in their family,
and they're taking on the world. And we don't get
to see each other. We don't get to see ourselves
in those roles in those stories, like to cheer ourselves
(02:38):
on as badasses, to see us protecting our kids with
everything we have.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Like I just thought, this is so powerful and.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
The love and no scandal, no pun intending, but like
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Yeah, and I'm telling you I had a chance to
watch the movie, right, yes, and I don't want to
give away anything, but there's so much in it.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
I can't wait till people see it because it's easy.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
And when the badass appears, yes, it's when like the
bank scene.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Oh my god, you saw the bank scene.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
I'm just like, I'm like, that's that's probably how I
need to whoop somebody.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
As carry Washington in the.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Neighborhood, Shadow Force may Big Boy's Neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
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Speaker 2 (03:22):
Big Boy Neighborhood, Shadow Force, the new movie Man We
Got Carried Washington in the Neighborhood for All New Big Interview.
Do you go to the theater like when Shadow Force open?
Will you go and sneak in?
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (03:34):
I like to do that. I like to see the
audience respond. I like to see that joy that it
brings people.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
It's fun.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Yeah, and just going in quiet, unannounced. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
And you don't get to do that with a streamer,
you know, when my films go to streamers, you can't
be sneaking into somebody's living.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Room to watch them, watch them, be behind them like.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
You.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
But yeah, why was it important for it to go
to theater?
Speaker 5 (04:03):
I think because you know, one thing I'm really proud
of as a producer with this film is it's not
a lot of CGI. Like, this is not that kind
of film where it's like computer generated AI images.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Flipping through the screen. We're not doing that.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
This is real people doing real stunts, doing real action.
We put our real bodies on the line and so
to see that on the big screen is really exciting.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Also, the locations like to see Columbia. It's beautiful.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
It's vast, like we're in the ocean, we're in the mountains.
To really take all that in in the theater is
really great. And the music, I mean when I walked
in here, you played Linel Line Richie. He's like the
fourth family member in our family, right, it's like a
mother of father, son and cousin. Line.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Yeah, the soundtrack you yes, he really is.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
And so that to get that music and surround sound,
to let that overwhelm you, it's just it's great.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Why Linel Richie? You know, because was that you who
showed me I heard dressed up in like twenty twenty
two or something where you dress up like that.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Yes, it was right after we finished shooting Ge. You
can love Linel. I listen.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
I had a poster of Linel in my bedroom when
I was a kid, like no Shade.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
My dad came home with two posters.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
My girlfriend I grew up with in the neighborhood, Nicole,
He had who knows what, he probably at the barber
shop somebody was selling posters and he came home with
like a Michael Jackson posting a Line Richie poster. And
I was like, I want the Linel poster. I have
always loved Linel. You know, he's had one of those
careers with the Commodorees on his own, He's he has been.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
With us for so long.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Yeah, that there are so many memories you can attach
to Line, you know, his throughout his career, whether it's
brick house or hello right like you you go yes yes,
or like endless love, Like it's just he really has
been with us in so many ways. So he felt
like the right person to be the soundtrack of their life.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
And it was and it was great moments too, like
like missing moments, and then the connection with truly yeah
you know, and was that you with.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Your with your love for Lino Richie as far.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
As like oh that was in the script. So I
was like this is meant to be.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Yeah, you know when people were like look at God. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
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Boys Neighborhood, Big.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
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Speaker 2 (06:14):
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Big interview.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
When was the last time you auditioned?
Speaker 3 (06:23):
It's been a minute.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
You don't even like.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Fake auditions, Like like, even though you know that your
company did your movie, you didn't go in, come in
and read for it.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Yeah, might as well you get yourself a callback.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
I've been in a lot of auditions on the other
side of the table.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Now that's because you've been on both sides of the table.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
It's great because I know how scary it is to audition,
And when I started producing, it actually helped me to
audition better because I got to see, like, oh, you
know what people want you to win. When an actor
walks in the room, you want them to solve your problem.
You're not looking for You're looking for them to be
the answer to your.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Problem, like, yeah, I want to get this done.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
Yes, yes, And so it helped me to be a
better auditioner when I started producing and directing. But it
has it's been a long time.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Are you still doing live auditions? Are you doing auditions
over zoom zoom? But some live auditions sudden And you
know what's wild about that is that you've been there
and do you know how to shift the emotion now
where like, you know, this is the gig, they didn't
get it kind of thing, as opposed to.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Feeling like oh yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
I think the longer you're you're at like anything in life, right,
the longer you do it, the more understanding and master
you have. One of the things that happened for me
in my career was when I looked back, I realized
that everything I didn't get it was for a good reason.
Like there were two television pilots that I made before Scandal,
and when I tell you I got fired from both
(07:52):
of them, I'm not kidding. Both shows went to pilot
without me. They recast my role wow, and shot and
reshot the pilot.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Well, we already know Carrie Washington at that time, right, yeah,
I mean I.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Had already done some work, but it was like, you're
not right for this.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Which is wild.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Did the shows go?
Speaker 5 (08:15):
One of them went, one of them didn't, right, and
the one that didn't. Here's what's interesting. So I was
so poor at the time. I had no money. I
was living in this tiny apartment in East Harlem that
I shared with like seventeen other people, and I was
I needed this.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
And this was a it was a series.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
It was shooting in Miami, and they were like, we're
we're gonna hold onto the whole cast and pay them
while we rethink the pilot.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Except for you.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
They told you that.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
Yeah, so this whole cast got to live in Miami
and party for like six months and just chill and
get paid by HBO, just living it up. And I
was devastated. But in that window of time is when
I got my audition for Ray. And if I had
been tied up in that TV show, I would not
(09:03):
have been able to do that movie.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
And that movie changed my career.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
The first time I went to the Golden Globes, first
time I went to the Oscars, first time I was
on the cover of a magazine was for that movie.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
There are no mistakes.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Made, no mistakes, you gotta trust.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
You know what's wild about that is at the moment,
what that must have fixed.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
It was devastating. It was devastating.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
You feel rejected, You feel unlovable, You feel like, is
this never gonna happen for me? Why am I not
good enough? I mean I remember feeling horrible. Oh yeah,
But then this script came along and I was available,
and I got it.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
And you seem like such a professional person.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
You know, and glad I've made you think.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
And I'm saying that.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
And the reason why I say so is because once
I booked Ray and just things that come after that,
that whole cast that went to Miami without me, I'll
be like, yeah, y'all back, Yeah I didn't get it.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Huh Like yeah, man, I would.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Have chased my mom. I would be like, we had
the golden globe.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Yeah, but it's crazy, and we always say it.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Look at God and what's supposed to be for you,
what's meant for you?
Speaker 4 (10:21):
God willing, You'll get it.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Got to stay strong.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Kerry Washington in the Neighborhood Shadow Force, May ninth, Big
Boy's Neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
This is Big Boy on Demand.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Big Boys Neighborhood, Shadow Force, the new movie Man we
Got Carried. Washington in the Neighborhood for All New Big Interview.
Does it feel like people are going back to the theater. Yeah, Yeah,
that's what I love about it. Man.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
We've been at the movies a lot. It's great to
be back to be in community.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Yeah, because I enjoy sitting at the house and I
enjoy watching something. But even watching Shadow Force. I was like,
I gotta go see this in the theater, you know.
And then my wife because I was watching headphones because
I couldn't get it on my TV. I have an
old ass laptop personal probably it was it wasn't Lion's Gate,
It's me, you know what I'm saying. And so my
wife kept looking over my shoulder and I was like, baby,
(11:10):
I said, you're too far in to watch. Yeah, you
know what I'm saying. And she love like that kind
of action.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Yeah, especially when it's action with heart.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Yeah, you know why why the shooting is happening. When
the explosion happens and you're emotionally invested in the explosion,
that's what.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
And she's that mom.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Yeah, okay, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
And she she's that mom that would jump out the window.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
How old are your kids?
Speaker 4 (11:34):
My son is eighteen and my daughter's sixteen.
Speaker 6 (11:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
My daughter has a boyfriend, So I need you to
come by.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
Do we like him to be like theriend, Yeah, we do,
we do.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
We do like him, you know what I'm saying. We
love them.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
No, okay, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
I would I be highly upset that they broke up,
not at all, as long as as long as if
she was if she broke up and she was happy,
I'd be like, hey, good, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
And you're oldest, you don't mind.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
Asking, No, I don't mind you asking. My oldest is
nineteen and male or female female? Okay, so she's you
girls and a boy. Yeah, yeah, so you've been through
the Yeah we're in it. How serious everything is? And
I'm like in it, man, yeah, I probably just send
my daughter over there with you.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Then you know what I'm saying, because yeah, you're saying
you got a better grip on it. It's being a
parent one of the hardest jobs you ever.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
Had, though it is, but it's the best, most ful feeling.
Like I just I love being a mom. Being a
mom and being a wife are my two favorite roles.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Really, and like how do you do the balance? Though?
You know? Because you got it?
Speaker 2 (12:40):
And I always say that they're and I'm saying this
to people before we got these things called enough and
everybody got their own enoughs and you probably got enough
where it's like, man, I gotta be you know, a
good actor enough, I got to be a good producer
enough I gotta be good mom, enough, good star enough,
you know, and then there's the black enough, street, enough,
board room enough.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
There's all these.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Enoughs that come with you may get me tired, And did.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
You really say there? Damn wow, I got some work
to do and that's a lot of.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
And I've.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
So how do you handle all the enoughs?
Speaker 3 (13:15):
I mean, I ask for help. Nobody does it alone.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
I think sometimes in culture we want to think that
people do it all by them. Everybody's a renaissance woman
where you can do it all, be it all. And
I'm I don't do it all. I have people at
work and at home who are support systems for me,
you know, partnerships at work at home. Like I don't
raise my children alone. I mean, I can't imagine being
(13:42):
a mom without the husband that I have. I can't
imagine being, you know, running my production company without my partner,
Polar Savone, like like this is it's partnership is everything.
There's power in partnership and their strength and asking for help.
You know, you don't have to do it alone.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
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Speaker 1 (14:05):
This is big Boy on Demand.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Big Boy, Neighborhood, Shadow Force, the new movie Man. We
got Carrie Washington in the neighborhood. We're going to go
see the movie. We will see it as as as
a crew, but I gotta go see it with the
Queen first, so we could do date night.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
You can't, Mariana, what do you mean?
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Why?
Speaker 6 (14:23):
Why?
Speaker 4 (14:23):
I mean?
Speaker 3 (14:24):
I want to go what's wrong?
Speaker 4 (14:26):
If we did date?
Speaker 3 (14:26):
What happened?
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Yeah, maybe carry can give her some advice on Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Are you not dating? What's going on? Okay?
Speaker 4 (14:32):
So I know earlier you mentioned how partnership is so
important to you and I'm still out here dating. Okay.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
You it's really hot on these streets.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Yeah, it's tough.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Yes, So you know, I was wondering if you can
share some dating advice with me. Oh wow, yeah, dating
is it's not going to happen. I know that we're
coming to.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
That in a few years. We're going to be back
in the neighborhood talking about.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Look at God?
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Are you writing in prison?
Speaker 3 (15:05):
I'm just be honest, be up front.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
Right Like from the beginning, it's don't don't do the
facade thing, because then you just have to spend time
like unraveling the lies and the pretending, like, be truly
be yourself so that you don't have to switch it
up and change the game later on and ask that
of the other person. Just be like, just be real
with me, like I want. Your truth is important to
(15:30):
me because then you'll really know who you're dating.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Yeah, Amightna?
Speaker 3 (15:34):
What do I say all the time that they always
send their representative.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Don't send your representatives. Your authentic self is all jokes, Acidey.
She's such a great and beautiful lady, and I'm glad
that that she don't waste her time on knuckleheads and
saying what that works over here?
Speaker 3 (15:51):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
God, but you deserve you deserve goodness. You know you
deserve so. But also stay open. This is the other thing.
No one person has to be everything to you. Because
I've seen you know, talking to girlfriends. It's like, well,
he doesn't like Indian food. I'm like, then eat Indian
food with your sister, Like you don't have to. He
doesn't have to like everything you like. You don't have
(16:16):
to go everywhere you go. You can have friends who
you do like. If he doesn't like karaoke, you do
karaoke with your friends who like karaoke, and then you
come home to.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Him and do the things you guys like to do.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
So just remember too that not every not one person
doesn't have to be all the things to you. You
can have lots of people in your life that you
love and spend time with. Your partner should be your
favorite person, but they don't have to do all the
things and like all the things that you like.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Okay, wow, and you almost.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Say it that word for word.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
I tried to Carrie Washington in the Neighborhood Shadow Force
may Big Boy's Neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
This is Big Boy on Demand.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Big Boy Neighborhood, Shadow Force, the new movie Man. We
got Carrie Washington in the Neighborhood for All New Big Interview.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Did you and Jaylo go to the same Boys and
Girls Club.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Or d Did we did?
Speaker 6 (17:05):
So?
Speaker 5 (17:06):
Jennifer and I lived in the same neighborhood and we
had this beloved dance teacher, Larry, who got really sick
jay Jennifer is a little bit older than me, so
when Larry went to the hospital, she was like one
of the big girls. I was like eight and she
was a teenager and she stepped in to teach some
of Larry's classes. So I actually learned to dance from
Jennifer Lopez.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
I'm not as good as Jennifer Lobez, but yeah.
Speaker 6 (17:29):
How.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Is not wild? And honestly she's part of She's right there.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
Yeah she is like you know when they say if
you don't see it, you can't be it, Like you
have to see it to be it. Like I remember
finishing my homework on Sundays so that I could watch
in living color because I could see Jennifer.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
And you knew that was her, yes.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
And so there was a possibility of like maybe I
could chase this dream, like if even though we all
know that Jennifer was different, it was like Jennifer I.
You know, everybody knew Jennifer would be on the cover
of magazines one day. She just always had that thing.
And I didn't see myself as being that girl. But
I did feel like there was a pathway from the
Bronx to Hollywood, and it was partly carved by her.
(18:13):
You know, before us, it was Rita Moreno and Diane Carolyn,
but she was in my lifetime somebody who I knew
who made it.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
And you know what's wild is I think a lot
of people see that with you as well, you know,
and not just then, you know, in front of the camera,
but in front of the camera, behind the camera, in
the production making you know what I'm saying, sitting there
making sure that the green light is for us and many.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Others as well. So thank you for coming into Shadow Force.
We're looking at May.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Ninth, ninth, Mother's Day weekend.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
There it is, and we gotta go.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
We gotta go out first weekend too, because we're we're
we can either help or hurt Hollywood's right, not just
our Hollywood, but period to.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
Create opportunities when we support the work that's out there.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Yeah, so thank you for coming into the neighborhood Washington.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
In the neighborhood Shadow Force May Big Boy's Neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Eighties.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
You're finding a big boy from Big Boy's Neighborhood on iHeartRadio.
We have the most fun on your radio. Bad Boys
Ride or Die.
Speaker 6 (19:18):
Think.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
When we did catch up with Will Smith on the
Red Carpet, we had to ask him about the movie.
What does this feel like when you see the world
come out once again?
Speaker 4 (19:25):
You know what?
Speaker 6 (19:26):
It is shocking and all inspiring to see that after
thirty years this might be the biggest of them all.
That people want this one as much as, if, if
not more than the three previous films. The fact that
it's still growing thirty years later is an absolute blesser.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
And there's things that you don't want to see over
and over again. Sometimes you're like, man, let it be
what it is. But this is one of those bro
where if it was animated, it's like the senses this
can never stop.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Do you know what I'm saying? Thank you for listening.
It is upon the Big Boy Big Boys Neighborhood.
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History is beautiful, brutal and, often, ridiculous. Join Ben Bowlin and Noel Brown as they dive into some of the weirdest stories from across the span of human civilization in Ridiculous History, a podcast by iHeartRadio.