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Kyla Pratt on the Importance of Representation in the Entertainment Industry | BET Awards 2025
The Hollywood Reporter
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6/10/2025
Kyla Pratt chats with THR at the 2025 BET Awards and opens up about staying grounded in the industry and the importance of representation. Plus, she talks about how she stays positive, regardless of what is happening in the world at the moment.
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I have to say, I was just talking to your castmates, like, girl, we got Penny Proud on us.
00:04
They're so happy to be with you.
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And they are so sweet.
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Like, even walking on set and just being with them, like, their energy was so lovely.
00:11
And sometimes I do forget what I've done for a living for a very long time because I'm a person.
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Like, you know, I'd be like, oh, I got to take my kids here.
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I got to do this.
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I got to do that.
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But to go on a set like that, especially filled with my people that I enjoy watching just as a fan
00:25
and for their energy to be what it was and what it is, it's an amazing feeling.
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So I'm very excited to be a part of The Chi.
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I feel like you could speak to the fact, like, right now there's a lot of conversation that we don't have a lot of shows for young black kids,
00:38
you know, to see themselves in that.
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Are you feeling frustrated with what's out there?
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Do you think the time?
00:44
I'm not really frustrated.
00:45
I refuse to get frustrated anymore because that messes with your energy.
00:50
So you have to figure out what if something is missing, what can you do to make it happen?
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So I think that's why I've ventured more behind the scenes this year and last year
00:59
and just trying to, you know, be creative and not limit myself and be behind the camera as well as in the front.
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So you can't really, don't allow yourself to get frustrated.
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Just whatever you need to do to make that change, just attempt it.
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Every time I talk to you is a word.
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Girl, because people all the time, they'll be like, oh, my God, you're so positive when you talk.
01:20
And I'm like, look, I am a regular, everyday person that is trying to stay sane in a world that wants to drive me crazy.
01:27
And I know that people listening or people that I talk to are going through the same things,
01:32
no matter if we're smiling on this carpet or smiling at the grocery store.
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I know, ooh, it's a lot.
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But so that's why I try to just express the things that go on in my head and what I try to remind myself every day
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because I'm not perfect.
01:45
I don't always have this, you know, I'm real.
01:48
I tell people all the time, I could be Erykah Badu or I could be Pop.
01:52
We could be Sade.
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We could be you pick, you pick, you pick.
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But I also don't, you know, I don't allow, if anybody chooses that they want me to be a certain way,
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I kind of give them the opposite because you're not going to play with me.
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I'm not easily controlled.
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But I just try to let people know, like, you're not alone.
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It's a lot going on in this world.
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So just stay positive.
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Thank you for that.
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