How are you?
- I'm doing really well. - Good.
It's so good to see you. - It's nice to see you.
I was just going to say the same thing.
I know!
So, you have two movies out.
It's crazy.
What the hell?
Won't he do it?
He will do it all the time.
And I just said to myself, I was like, boy, I better
hurry up and get another job, because I'm
going to have a whole year where nothing comes out.
You know how this goes.
It's feast or famine. - Right, right.
So how did you do that?
You shot one movie Monday, Wednesday, Friday,
another on Tuesday, Thursday?
Yeah, Sunday, too.
They had me working on a Sunday!
No, I actually-- it just-- the timing of the release dates
worked out this way. Yeah.
That's great.
And-- so, in "You People," you got Eddie Murphy, Julia
Louis-Dreyfus, Jonah Hill--
I've worked with all of them.
And Kenya, too.
But see, what-- you got to actually
work with Eddie Murphy.
When I worked with Eddie, it was "Nutty Professor 2,"
and I pretty much worked with a tennis ball.
Because he was-- some days I'll get one Eddie Murphy,
but he was all in the make-up as Granny, so.
And then, it's exhausting.
So sometimes the off-camera stuff--
I know the tennis ball thing.
I did that with Martin Lawrence.
I mean, you kind of-- with "Big Mama's House," right?
Same kind of concept.
He was there!
He was there for every single shot.
Wow.
Yeah, no prosthetic makeup in this one.
So he was there, and he was wonderful.
And I was so excited to finally be
old enough to play his wife.
Because for years, it was like, oh, no, you're too young.
You know?
And now, the men always get the younger women, so here we are.
There you go.
So-- and then, your other movie--
"Missing."
Yes.
That's kind of like a--
you're like the Black woman Liam Neeson in "Taken," right?
That would be Storm Reid, because she's
on a mission to find me.
And, you know what's great about the film,
is everything is shot through some sort of technical device.
So it's either an iPhone, a Ring
Cam, a secret phone that's like planted on set somewhere.
So every rule that I've learned about film and television,
I had to throw out the window.
Because there were no overs, there
were no cuts-- it was just shoot and don't ask questions.
Because if you ask questions, you will be more confused.
So I just had to trust the process.
It was good.
I would have been, like, with the cameras--
hey, get that from under my chin!
What you doing?
Bring that up there!
I had mines on ladders.
Oh, yeah, shoot me from up there!
Can I tell you--
there's a moment in the film that actually applies
to exactly what you're saying, where I had to like
shoot my own coverage in--
on the cell phone.
And I'm like, going like this.
I'm like, no, don't roll it yet.
No, no, no, no.
OK, there we go, stop!
And there's-- a woman knows her light and her angles after
a certain amount of time.
Yes.
Well, this is the--
I think it's great to see a Black woman
in this type of role.
It's like, taking over, like, a drama thing.
So like, maybe you can, like, take over,
like, the John Wick movies.
You know? Yeah!
It could be-- Yeah!
It could be like, John Wick is like, they killed her edges.
And now she wants revenge.
Yes!
No more lace front!
That's right.
As long as I can wear this coat,
I'll play whatever character.
It is fancy.
You are fancy.
You are very fancy, Nia Long.
Well, you know what happened is--
I went to Dubai right before I came here to see Beyonce.
And she was incredible.
I was like, literally crying.
I was crying in the audience.
I'm like, a true fan.
And that was my first Beyonce concert.
So to see it in Dubai was like, one of those moments
that I will remember for the rest of my life.
So everything in Dubai is blingy.
And I'm kind of not-blingy.
But everything I packed--
[laughter]
- Kind of. - OK, there we go.
There we go.
But everything I packed was blingy, so.
I'm sorry, Wanda, this is just blingy.
You blingy.
OK, I got to ask you something real quick.
I have to ask you something, because I know how it goes.
So recently-- I'm going to read it-- there was a headline,
right, where you said, I quote, "Black movies and Black famous
only hold us back."
Yes.
You want to clear that shit up?
Because you know--
That's not written correctly.
You know how goes.
Because they take one headline and turn it into something.
Read that again?
Let me see that again?
How much time you got?
"Terms like Black movies and Black famous
only hold us back."
OK, so, what I mean by-- you know what I mean.
I know, but go ahead.
But-- but, so--
For them.
For the white people in the audience--
what I mean by that is, if we continue
to practice this idea of separatism,
we continue to divide.
And I will always and forever hold my fist up, because I
understand the experience.
But I also believe that the more we understand about one
another, and the more accepting we are of one another,
this thing called art should be representative of all of us.
Thank you.