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- Right after this huge breakout success
in Girls Trip, which obviously you two did together,
you then go into somebody else's vehicle
and I'm curious, again,
the question of how do you navigate that?
Is it freeing, is it frustrating,
and how do you find your place in that?
- At that time, Girls Trip hadn't come out yet.
It hadn't come out when I took that job..
And had I known,
like I believed Girls Trip was gonna do good,
but if I woulda known, known,
like somebody was like it's gonna make all this money,
you about to go like ooh yeah,
I would've been like well, I'm sorry guys,
I'm gonna do my own show.
I'm gonna do Hollywood Haddish.
- [Regina] And you still can.
And now you still can.
- And yet here you are in this other show.
So when you're trying to find yourself in this character,
what pieces of you did you bring to her?
- I brought my sophisticated business side to stay.
Also, I brought my wretched side to her,
when I play the younger Shay and also as the older version.
I have a really good...
Like the writers on the show are so good,
I would love to kidnap all of them
and use them for everything.
- For Hollywood Haddish?
- Yeah, for Hollywood Haddish
and everything else I do.
But they're really amazing writers.
So I don't have to do too much.
I don't have to put a whole lot of me in it
'cause they already write it with me in mind.
They already make it so easy for me.
So yeah.
- On a more serious note, what would that be?
- That would be a really fun show that...
I haven't seen a show that's dealing with female comedians.
Like the world of female comedy
and navigating in a man's world
and how it's such a boys' club.
And like really do a stand-up, like for real
female stand-up comics
and how difficult it is
and how you have to fight
and fight your way into that boys' club
and be like yo, I'm just as funny as you.
I can be up here just as long as you.
I can pack out this theater just as much as
you can pack out this...
Sorry, I'm gettin' passionate about it.
But it would be about that
and then tryin' to have that regular life
where you wanna date and stuff
but guys are afraid to date you
'cause they think you're gonna talk about 'em on stage,
which is like please, you're not that poppin'.
But my show would be about that.
And trying to also be a family member.
Tryin' to lift up my family.
It would be about my life.
- That's comin'.
- Yeah, it would be about my life.
I wrote it already.
- I'd do it quick 'cause now that you've talked about it,
somebody's gonna do it.
- It's already written.
Come up and let's go.
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- Looking back on your careers,
what was the most amusing or frustrating
or horrifying feedback you ever got going up for a part?
- You know what I would do?
I would put my phone on voice memo
and put it in my bag.
I'd do the audition, walk out the room,
leave my bag-
- You're nasty.
- [Lacey] Oh would you really?
What would you hear?
- Come back, be like oh I forgot my purse in here.
Get my purse.
- You've actually done that?
- Get in the car.
Then...
- Let me look under the table and see-
- What would you hear?
I love this.
- You can't do it anymore.
You've just told everyone. - They'd be like
she's not as urban as I thought she would be.
- I knew that was the word, yeah.
That's not what I wanna hear.
- Or they would be like she's so ghetto,
I just can't.
Her boobs aren't big enough.
But I really think we should just go with a white girl.
She's not... this role should be changed to white.
Oh, if her hair was-
- Wait how many rooms did you leave it in?
- A lot, a lot.
It was like my MO.
- You two would get into a lotta trouble with each other
I feel like.
- We would get into trouble?
- I'm the opposite.
Have you ever gone to your own movie in a theater
and then you go to the rest room
and people are starting to talk about the movie.
I've always been so scared
of what they would say.
I wanna let them know
that I'm in here, don't say anything bad.
I wouldn't wanna hear.
- No, I don't wanna hear.
- I wanna hear so that I can grow.
And also that I can write jokes about it
and I can like use it to my advantage.
They're like she can't read.
Jesus, if she just could read, it would work.
She said every word wrong.
And I'm like they're right.
And so then I started reading out loud
while practicing more.
It helped me in the long run.
So I mean some of it hurt my feelings.
Sometimes I'm like damn, what a bitch.
I'm never goin' back in there again.
- But you did and then you left your bag.
- [Jane] Good for you.
- I did and it's just wow, she's come a long way.
- What they should've been saying is
she's so forgetful.
She leaves her purse in the room.
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