- I mean, I love when I get to just get in your face
and cuss you, stare you down.
I'll be staring him down and just thinking like,
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- Oh, is this a messy game?
- Hi, I'm Jodie Turner-Smith.
- Greetings. I am Lauren London.
- And today I'm spilling the tea.
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- Ooh.
- The hardest role I ever prepared for?
I mean, they were all hard in different ways.
It's so hard to answer.
- I would have to say the first role I ever did
for the big screen, which was ATL
because of all the insecurity and uncertainty
that came with never being in a film before
and this being your first film and leading it.
And I think that was the hardest role.
- Physically, hardest, was obviously Without Remorse
because, well, I probably would say that, in a way,
it was physically the hardest
because I was pregnant at the time
which is, like, extremely intense to be doing
(indistinct) while you're pregnant.
Like, you can't even fucking breathe the same way.
It's mad, actually.
But then it was also physically very intense
to do Anne Boleyn because I went and do that
when my daughter was five months.
I was nursing her still.
I'm still nursing her.
But you know, I was nursing,
so it was like every three hours
I had to stop and pump and, or nurse her.
And like, it was just, and you know
in that I'm playing Anne Boleyn.
So I was literally on, in every scene
and it was very physically intense
and stressful to do that.
But then Queen & Slim was like really fucking intense.
It was really hard.
I feel like that was really hard in terms of...
I don't know.
It's really a three-way tie
between, for different reasons
between Queen & Slim, Anne Boleyn and Without Remorse.
So, yeah.
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- You know, I loved some of the action sequences
that we shot.
You know, I think it was really,
I think it was really fun to sort of...
But then, you know what I also really loved?
I really loved cussing out Jamie Bell.
I feel like I got to stare down
and cuss out Jamie Bell a lot.
That was kind of (mumbling).
I got to be like
to Jamie Bell all the time, which was like,
it was great.
- There's a scene by the,
where there's a fire and it's by the water.
And my character comes to
and she says some really comforting, wise words.
And I think that was...
I know that that was my favorite thing to shoot.
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- Oh, wow.
- Janicza Bravo.
I mean, I've already worked with her once,
but I want to do,
I wanna do...
I did like a tiny role in her film Lemon
and I really wanna...
I wanna be...
I also really wanna work with the Safdie brothers.
Safdie brothers, call me.
I'm here.
- I would just love
I would love to work with Jeffrey Wright is a really...
Don Cheadle. Great actors.
I would love to work with Viola Davis,
Meryl Streep.
I would love to gain so much knowledge from them, for sure.
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- Boomerang.
- Waiting to Exhale.
Or Boomerang. Either one.
Those are my favorite.
Love Jones.
You know, I love three.
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- Koffee, Toast.
I'm just thinking about this song
and I'm just feeling happy now.
Okay. Koffee, love her, love that song.
- There's a song from the artist, Kem. K-E-M.
And it's called Divine Order.
It's comforting.
It's affirming that everything is in divine order.
No matter what it feels like,
no matter what it looks like.
That it is all in divine order.
- I played that song at my wedding.
There's some tea.
Like at the end of the wedding like as we walked out.
That's some tea.
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- The weirdest item that I own?
- I don't think I really have a weird item.
I can't think of anything that's weird.
I don't have any, I don't really own anything weird.
Everything I have right now is practical.
- I mean, I have a house full of crystals.
Full. The house is full.
There's not a room that does not hold,
that does not hold an incense holder and a crystal.
But I don't think that's weird at all.
- Some people might think it's weird
that I have an obsidian crow
that I basically carry with me everywhere
to like, you know, ward off any negative energy.
And I literally say, "Watch over us crow,"
everywhere I go with this crow.
So maybe that might be weird to people,
but if anybody believes in crystals
they'll understand why I do it.
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- I'm a really hands-on mom.
I'm a really hands-on mom.
- Well, when I was younger,
I used to be scared to be left,
like kind of scared of the dark, to be honest.
Where like, if my parents left me home by myself,
they would either...
That was the only time they would let me...
I mean I don't know about you,
but my parents never let me sleep over at people's houses
when I was younger.
They would be like, you cannot go to sleepovers.
But the only time that they would let me sleep over
at a friend's house,
is my parents would let me do that
if they were leaving town,
because they knew that I was like
scared to be alone in a house by myself.
For some reason, being alone in a house by myself
really makes me feel weird and scared.
And like, if I am, I have to turn on all the TVs.
- I'm more laid back, maybe, than people would think.
Super laid back.
I'd rather play the corner and the cut
than be front and center.
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- Well, I would tell her it's okay to be afraid of the dark,
number one.
- To trust my own voice, to trust my intuition
and to stop second-guessing the voice inside.
- Number two, I would say
your twenties will be riddled with painful insecurity,
but once you hit your thirties
and really become home in your body, it gets better.
- That's me spilling the tea.
Oh, that was easy.
That was so easy.
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