Hey, Dominique, how are you?
Hi, well, how are you? I'm good, thanks.
My background is nowhere near as good as your background.
Let me just say it's pretty.
I'm not responsible for that.
I don't know if I were.
That might be like yours, that
it's comforting to know.
Congratulations on the show.
Thank you so much.
So many reasons I can imagine for you to want to get involved with this one.
But tell me about about reading the script for the first time
and the character of Robin and why you felt compelled
to want to at least put your name forward to try and play this character?
Well,
I just I just was doing press for for Judas [and the Black Messiah],
and I really I've played a lot of have in a lot of dramatic or heavy pieces,
and I really am a much more silly than I get the opportunity to show.
So I really was like, I didn't know if this was the right move for me to do.
I want to do the romcom I like.
You know, what do I like doing comedy action?
I really want to to try to do something else?
I wasn't entirely sure.
Obviously, the fact that it was Samuel Jackson really made me say,
Oh, and then I ended up find out that Sam really wanted
me, that he saw me in a project power with Jamie Foxx
when he made a call and said, I think we found our girl.
So when you hear somebody say, OK, like, let me really go through this
and then my chemistry test, and it was great.
Then when I finally agreed to do it, reading the book really, really
just changed everything for me.
I read all six of the scripts, but I found that there was things from the book.
Obviously, that wasn't an issue in the show
when there was a lot of stuff that I was trying to bring back.
So I made it like 28 page PDF,
where I took quotes from the book pictures
and describes scars and dreams that I thought Robin would have.
And I sent it to Walter Mosley and Sam,
and they really was supportive and collaborative collaborative
that I was able to implement a lot of my ideas in the building
out of the characters.
So I have a lot of ownership of of who she is, and I'm really happy about that.
Yeah, I was just talking to your costars about working with Sam
because I guess is a combination of trepidation
because Samuel Jackson, but also excitement
because you get to work with Samuel Jackson.
Was it that for you then, given that he, he won,
really wanted you to take take the role on, you know, actually, it wasn't.
I wasn't really nervous about it because I tried to think about
what I'm doing for the character.
If I go on the set thinking,
Oh, that's just the Samuel Jackson, then I might get distracted.
That's not what I'm here for, right?
So I just tried to to journal as my characters often,
but I didn't get to this time.
But like just a psychology, the psychology knowing the psychology of the character
allows me to come to say as I am and be, I'm here to do a job.
So obviously there was times in between takes over, but I'll shoot down here.
You're working with Samuel Jackson
or Miss Debbie Allen is right here directing you.
So that's really cool.
But in terms of being intimidated,
I'm I'm happy to say that I didn't really feel like that.
You know, I was I was ready.
I think the one
I've been wanting to do this for so long, and I always said to myself,
You know what?
I'm going to try to perfect my craft so that when I get into a room at it,
I could deliver.
So it's not now, not the time to be like that is going to be like, I'm here,
I'm ready.
So you know what you said at the beginning, that is that one of the reasons
why the lure of doing something like Transformers
kind of spoke to you in terms of maybe doing something a little bit different
because it is completely different to some of the things you've done before.
Absolutely.
I try to use my my inner child as a compass.
You know,
I think when you wait,
when you're a child, you have these ideas about the justice in that
and then you start to do it.
You get a little bit more visibility
and maybe you start getting a little bit afraid.
Like, I don't, you know, I don't want people to be disappointed.
I don't want to make the wrong move.
You start doing it
and you kind of don't really know was the wrong, wrong, right or wrong move.
Maybe there's no right or wrong move,
but you have to go with alignment with your soul, says and I.
I really, really wanted to do Transformers in the fact that I was able to do both
because they kind of overlapped his schedule a bit.
But everybody worked together to make it work so that I could do both.
And I'm so thankful. I'm so excited.
I'd love to see you in a comedy.
I feel like there's that's the next thing.
You know, this is just out of my head.
Something like only murders in the building.
Have you seen that show?
That would be something that I would love to see a year
and that it would be amazing.
You and Selena Gomez as friends come on it.
I mean, that would be great. I love stuff like that.
Yeah, it's something like Jim Carrey.
He's like my hero.
I might do something like that on a Sonic three.
You never know.
I could be the way.
And Dominique, let me just say to wish you all the best for the show.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.