NOOTCS Carpet Recap 16x9

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00:00You know me, man.

00:06The stories are the most important thing.

00:07I call myself Black Forrest Gump, but it was great to be able to get these people together.

00:12These are the people that we've watched for so many years.

00:15Every time somebody came on the screen, come on, Viola, Halle, Denzel, all right, okay.

00:25All right, okay.

00:26I mean, it's just amazing.

00:29And then you sit back and realize, ooh, we done gave a lot.

00:32We've given a lot.

00:33It feels good to know we're rising.

00:34We still rising no matter what they do.

00:36We're still rising.

00:37I agree.

00:38Just because there's so many opportunities with streaming to tell a varied amount of

00:43stories and we are discovering that we are not a monolith.

00:46You know, we have Anthony Mackie as Captain America.

00:49We have Sterling K. Brown making everybody compelled to watch television every Tuesday.

00:56You know what I mean?

00:57So I think that this is a great time to be Black and to be a storyteller.

01:01I am so excited about the filmmakers that we currently have, the storytellers that we

01:07currently have behind the camera because, you know, I feel like our characters, we're

01:13getting the opportunity to really express very nuanced sides of our personality.

01:19You must believe that God has called you here because if God has called you here, he is

01:24committed to your success.

01:26You will not fail.

01:28It's always good to reflect.

01:29I mean, you know, when we look at it, what does reflection does?

01:31It gives us a time to, you know, think about how far we've come, appreciate what's in front

01:35of us and then to have more motivation to just press on.

01:38So I feel that this film really embodies that.

01:40The experiences at Denzel and I see some great actors over there, some great actors, is that

01:47their work, if we're referring to comedy, I can give you of what I feel like I'm worth

01:52or what I believe that I should be paid due to my work I've done.

01:56As an actor, I believe that they've done that work so they know the work.

02:01You got to know the worth of your work.

02:03So him asking for what he believes he should get or what a woman, a black actress, believe

02:06in what she believes she should get because she's seen the numbers, not just how you feel

02:10in your emotion, not just because you know you're the, because we all need this confidence

02:13just to walk around.

02:14Had you not have the confidence to walk around, you can never be number one anything in life.

02:18There's not just no call.

02:19She says no callbacks.

02:21It's dope to be number one on the call sheet, but you don't want to outsource your happiness

02:26to a number.

02:28What's really dope is to make the call sheet because you don't want to just play basketball,

02:33you want to what?

02:34It's also important to own the team, you know, and especially for people of color so we can

02:39get, we can get, oh, I've got to be this, I've got to be that, and somehow that happiness

02:43is external.

02:44No, man, being here with your son, being healthy, being, getting to see brothers like this and

02:50sisters like you who give us a voice, that's the way.

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