[MUSIC PLAYING]
Monie, this is our executive producer Charles West.
- Hi, Monie. - Hey, Mr. West.
How are you doing?
MONIE (VOICEOVER): A friend from class helped
me get a voiceover audition.
I'm really nervous.
But I know if I want to do voiceover professionally,
I got to get used to it.
You're here today to audition for our animation project.
And you're going to be auditioning for the Ladybug.
- OK. - Come on.
Let's get started. I want to see this.
MONIE: All right.
I wasn't expecting to be in front of all
these people watching me.
I'm so nervous right now.
CHARLES WEST: I can't see her.
This is not going to work.
Monie.
MONIE: Sir.
CHARLES WEST: I can't see you.
Do you mind me putting this down?
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Story of my life. [LAUGHTER]
CHARLES WEST: Come on.
Come on.
Yay.
OK, Cas let's start with Ladybug One.
Well, it does beat watching the pigs slop all day.
CHARLES WEST: That was a little country, baby.
Well, it does beat watching the pigs slop all day.
CHARLES WEST: But don't-- don't make it country.
Oh, OK.
Well, it does beat watching the pigs slop all day.
Come on back in. MONIE: OK.
OK.
I'm working so hard to get this right.
And I will be devastated if they don't like me.
CHARLES WEST: Why are you crying?
Why are you crying?
Because I don't want-- because I'm, like, so country.
I'm country.
But this is the time for you to be free.
OK. CHARLES WEST: OK?
That's what animation allows you to do.
You can be whatever you want to be.
Being in this business, it's hard.
It's not easy.
You have to have a tough skin.
OK.
Damn.
I just got to get it together right
now and put my mind to it.
I know I can do this because I'll be damned if I ain't
going to be their Ladybug.
CHARLES WEST: Let's do this.
Well, it does beat watching the pigs all day.
It does beat watching the pigs slop all day.
- That's better. - It's better.
It's better. - That's better.
That's better. All right, Monie.
One last time, OK? MONIE: OK.
Make this count.
This is for the money. MONIE: All right.
No pun intended.
[LAUGHTER]
Well, it does beat watching the pigs slop all day.
WOMAN 1: Yes.
CHARLES WEST: That's what I'm talking about.
Way better. WOMAN 1: Yes.
Way better. WOMAN 1: Yeah.
Way better.
I can't believe Mr. West gave me
a second chance to do better.
But I'm so thankful.
And I'm hoping I get this part.
CHARLES WEST: I appreciate you.
And I'll take a look at all the notes
and make my decision soon.
MONIE: Hey, Mr. West. - Hey, Monie.
How you doing?
CHARLES WEST: How you doing, sweetie?
I'm good.
Well, I wanted to bring you down
and talk to you about the audition,
talking it over with the producers.
And they feel like you haven't done it before.
And, you know, it's like taking a risk.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Everybody loved your voice.
But it felt like you didn't have enough experience.
Right.
For me, being the executive producer, I, kind of,
overruled that.
You got the part.
You are the Ladybug in "Nubbin & Friends," the TV series.
Thank you so much.
I'm just speechless because--
[MUSIC PLAYING]
CHARLES WEST: It's all right.
It's all right.
I know it's emotional.
You're going to be in a project with all these big names.
And you're right there with them.
You deserve that, OK?
Well, this-- this is like a dream of-- of mine.
This is something that-- like, this is my passion.
I mean, I'm just trying so hard.
And this is a positive project.
So I just feel like it's just a win-win in one.
I'm so thankful for Charles for seeing something in me.
And I'm going to do whatever it takes not to let him down.
Take the script home, work on it.
We're going to set up something with you
going to the studio with us.
And we're going to lay it down.
OK.
And you're going to see your character animated real soon.
Wow.
I can't wait.
Thank you so much. CHARLES WEST: All right.
Thank you, sweetie. MONIE: OK.
CHARLES WEST: All right.
So what have you got?
Tell me.
Oh, I got it. WOMAN 2: You got it?
- Yes. - Oh, come here.
MONIE: Thank you so much.
I love you, girl. MONIE: Oh my god.
- You're very welcome, girl. - Hey, I'm so excited.
I cannot wait to tell [INAUDIBLE]..
I bet.
Girl, we need to drink to this.
[LAUGHTER]
Come on, get out of here.
MONIE: Oh, I'm so excited.
Monie, I remember you from somewhere.
And I know you're from Houston.
And I know your name Monie.
What's your name name?
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Tiffany.
WOMAN 3: Tiffany.
WOMAN 4: We remember something about that.
When I hear, what's your real name,
I instantly think, bitch, who you working for?
Talk to me about-- about the food stamps.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Talk to me about that.
MONIE (VOICEOVER): Now, there was a situation in my past.
And I wanted it to stay in my past.
But little people talk.
And these little bitches trying to put me on blast.
I'm a mother.
I'm a single mother.
My baby dad was with this girl.
She was poor.
And when I wasn't working, I was getting food stamps.
And I was getting Medicaid.
When I started working, I didn't report it.
So his gal, she reported me.
Now I didn't know nothing about this Monie situation.
But I was afraid that these girls might stir some [BLEEP]
up.
So you went to jail for that?
Nah, I ain't never been to jail.
WOMAN 3: You mean probation.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
When I applied for food stamps, they
only gave me, like, $10 or $25.
But then, sometimes the government would say, well,
they don't get much money to give somebody
like me that really need it.
But somebody that's out there stealing.
WOMAN: Right.
So that's why I brought it up.
I am not going to sit here and let somebody accuse
me of being a damn thief.
Let me go check on Monie, see--
make sure she OK.
This is not even the right time or place
to bring this [BLEEP] up.
MONIE: It's like every time we all get together,
I got to answer a question.
First, it was like, what, kind of, dwarfism you got?
Now it's, you know, about my past.
What the [BLEEP]?
I got to get a credit report next
to be around mother-[BLEEP]?
I don't think they meant it trying
to cause trouble or anything.
But they shouldn't have brought that--
MONIE: It is-- - That, kind of, personal.
I don't know what Charity and Hope was thinking.
They always been too outspoken for their own damn good.
MONIE: My whole thing is like, who the [BLEEP] are they?
I just hate the fact that mother-mother-[BLEEP] judging me.
Like, that's not-- that's not what's up.
WOMAN 5: Everybody got a pass.
Nobody here is squeaky clean.
So--
This time, what's up.
Then this time, how are you now? You know what I'm saying?
You just don't ask me a [BLEEP] thing.
Just, it's all good.
Well, you got to do what you got to do, Monie.
[CHATTER]
MONIE: I want to know why the [BLEEP] y'all want to know
what's going on with me.
Like, I'm tired of mother-mother-[BLEEP] questioning
me like they my mama.
And then, y'all turn it up on me about my background.
Did you want my [BLEEP] credit history too?
Do you want to know [INAUDIBLE].
WOMAN 3: First of all, I didn't turn up on you.
Turn up with a whole different level, OK?
So, like-- so now, you know the information.
So what is it now? That's just how you know--
Bitch, it ain't nothing.
WOMAN 4: We heard some [BLEEP] in Texas.
We saw you.
I don't know what the [BLEEP] you heard.
I'm right here. I can tell you.
WOMAN 3: Well, you know what? That's why I asked you.
WOMAN 4: That's why we asked you.
WOMAN 3: That's why I asked you.
Now you're telling me your story.
And I'm done with it. Leave it alone.
MONIE: Man, I understand that.
But I'm just not going to just let it go like that.
Because if I just let it go like them mother-mother-[BLEEP] feel
like they just can question me about all this,
kind of, [BLEEP].
[BLEEP],, I-- I met people like you that steal from
the mother-[BLEEP] government.
I do understand.
But it don't make it [BLEEP]--
it don't make it mother-mother-[BLEEP] right.
I got a kid at home.
While your ass is stealing money--
MONIE: Exactly.
--my mother-mother-[BLEEP] ass is hungry.
You turned up on the wrong mother-mother-[BLEEP]..
I don't-- WOMAN 3: [BLEEP] you.
I am not the food pantry, sweetheart.
That's who you need to turn up off if you're hungry.
But while you steal, are you stealing from me too?
MONIE: [BLEEP]
[CRASH] [GROANING]
WOMAN: I got them.
Oh, my god.
WOMAN: This is a hat. WOMAN: Bitch, look at your hat.
WOMAN: Look at my hat.
[SHOUTING]
WOMAN 3: Get that bitch.
Oh, [BLEEP].
Oh, lord.
What the hell is going on right now?
Things all went from bad to worse.
[SHOUTING] WOMAN 5: No.
No. WOMAN: Wait.
Wait. Wait.
Get this [BLEEP] bitch off our boat.
[SHOUTING]
Get this [BLEEP] bitch off my boat.
Man, I'll push you off your [BLEEP] damn boat.
[SHOUTING]
[BLEEP]
[SHOUTING]
[BLEEP]