WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:08.300 Congratulation me and every other citizen of more than 20 years. 00:00:08.300 --> 00:00:09.400 What is it? 00:00:09.400 --> 00:00:14.200 Like I feel so excited. 00:00:14.200 --> 00:00:17.200 I feel so blessed to be able to share with this new generation 00:00:17.200 --> 00:00:20.900 this wonderful piece of art Rodgers and Hammerstein's 00:00:20.900 --> 00:00:24.700 Cinderella, you know, I just had such a wonderful time working 00:00:24.700 --> 00:00:28.700 with such a diverse and Multicultural cast and it just was like 00:00:28.700 --> 00:00:29.400 a dream come true. 00:00:29.400 --> 00:00:33.100 So I'm just so glad that this new generation has you know, 00:00:33.100 --> 00:00:37.100 this beautiful piece to enjoy and Tina watch what their family that 00:00:37.100 --> 00:00:39.400 thing is going to bring love to everybody's life. 00:00:39.400 --> 00:00:41.500 Honestly. How did this all come together? 00:00:41.500 --> 00:00:49.700 Because I remember a man but my isn't Cinderella on Disney 00:00:49.700 --> 00:00:54.400 plus so I think with the fans, 00:00:54.400 --> 00:00:55.800 you know, I I remember my mom 00:00:59.900 --> 00:01:03.300 I sent out there for it to be a part of the Disney plus 00:01:03.300 --> 00:01:06.300 family and you know, I think with everybody just pushing 00:01:06.300 --> 00:01:10.000 and pushing and pushing it finally worked out and I also feel 00:01:10.000 --> 00:01:11.700 like it's divine timing as well. 00:01:11.700 --> 00:01:13.200 This is the month of love. 00:01:13.200 --> 00:01:17.000 This is the month of a black history history in general and I just 00:01:17.000 --> 00:01:21.700 think this is just a perfect time for this project to be shared 00:01:21.700 --> 00:01:26.300 with everyone. I mean the music is just everybody's going to be 00:01:26.300 --> 00:01:32.200 great impossible versus the bootleg version of impossible. 00:01:32.200 --> 00:01:37.300 I'm excited about that. 00:01:37.300 --> 00:01:41.200 And of course yesterday announcing the news you reunited 00:01:41.200 --> 00:01:50.400 with Whoopi Goldberg what is in the cast of always loved would 00:01:50.400 --> 00:01:53.300 be her energy is just beautiful and and she is a queen, 00:01:53.300 --> 00:01:56.500 you know, and she's always had a way to make me feel like you 00:01:56.500 --> 00:01:58.000 know, what you you belong you belong 00:01:59.900 --> 00:02:03.300 I just always loved that about her and it's just great that 00:02:03.300 --> 00:02:06.800 she got a chance to play such an iconic role in this project 00:02:06.800 --> 00:02:08.500 and I was able to work with her. 00:02:08.500 --> 00:02:14.300 How long did you have to hold the secret folder for maybe like 00:02:14.300 --> 00:02:18.100 a week or so and it was really really hard and I wanted to 00:02:18.100 --> 00:02:21.400 tell people that I knew you know that asking about it, 00:02:21.400 --> 00:02:25.000 but I have to keep it under wraps for that called you to tell 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:28.300 you that the that the the film was coming to Disney Plus or did 00:02:28.300 --> 00:02:32.000 someone from Disney call and tell you I know my mom told me. 00:02:32.000 --> 00:02:36.200 My mom told me then I was like this is unbelievable 00:02:36.200 --> 00:02:39.300 because I heard the chatter and then you hear the chatter 00:02:39.300 --> 00:02:41.800 and you don't know for sure and then when it happens, 00:02:41.800 --> 00:02:45.300 it's like oh my God, this is really happening and then it and 00:02:45.300 --> 00:02:47.900 it hits home and I don't I don't think it's really hit all the 00:02:47.900 --> 00:02:51.900 way home yet until it until it's actually out there until I can 00:02:51.900 --> 00:02:55.300 feel the energy of everybody feeling it in connecting 00:02:55.300 --> 00:02:55.700 to it. 00:02:59.900 --> 00:03:04.300 I'm sure your social media has been absolutely insane news from 00:03:04.300 --> 00:03:08.100 everybody is so excited everybody like oh my God, 00:03:08.100 --> 00:03:09.100 I get to relive my childhood. 00:03:09.100 --> 00:03:12.000 You know, this is my favorite Cinderella, 00:03:12.000 --> 00:03:15.600 and I'm just I'm really excited because I feel like this new 00:03:15.600 --> 00:03:20.000 generation hasn't seen anything quite like this version of Cinderella. 00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:24.800 And so I just being Madden and knowing how how much of an impact 00:03:24.800 --> 00:03:28.600 it had on so many people there definitely expressing that to me 00:03:28.600 --> 00:03:31.800 everywhere everywhere. I turned everybody decided and it just 00:03:31.800 --> 00:03:36.400 feels good that everybody's happy for this moment to call. 00:03:36.400 --> 00:03:41.400 How did you finally find out that this was a real thing called 00:03:41.400 --> 00:03:42.900 me and I was home. 00:03:42.900 --> 00:03:46.600 I was not doing anything and she says I got something I want to 00:03:46.600 --> 00:03:49.200 tell you and I feel like I want you to be 00:03:50.200 --> 00:03:53.900 Cinderella, I don't like Cinderella I thought you were cuz I heard 00:03:53.900 --> 00:03:55.900 that she was going to play Cinderella. 00:03:55.900 --> 00:03:58.800 So I thought that she was going to play Cinderella and when 00:03:58.800 --> 00:04:02.800 she told me that she wasn't and I made her promise that I will 00:04:02.800 --> 00:04:04.700 play Cinderella if she play my fairy, 00:04:04.700 --> 00:04:07.900 and she promised me that she would and that's how it all started 00:04:07.900 --> 00:04:13.200 but it didn't really hit me until I was in the studio with her 00:04:13.200 --> 00:04:15.400 until the whole thing really start happening. 00:04:15.400 --> 00:04:18.100 I still was like on the pinch me level, 00:04:18.100 --> 00:04:26.800 you know, like this is really happening working together 00:04:26.800 --> 00:04:31.000 in the studio and and and forming these songs and when you look 00:04:31.000 --> 00:04:35.300 back on those moments, what do you remember the most I just 00:04:35.300 --> 00:04:39.200 remember feeling like this is like my angel standing next to me. 00:04:39.200 --> 00:04:40.100 This is my idol. 00:04:40.100 --> 00:04:44.800 This is someone that I've always looked up to in to stand next 00:04:44.800 --> 00:04:46.500 to her thing next to her. 00:04:46.500 --> 00:04:48.100 Like I'm I'm trying to sing as well, 00:04:48.100 --> 00:04:50.600 but she's right there and I'm like listening to We think she's 00:04:50.600 --> 00:04:55.700 doing inspired pills Goosebumps everything at the same time. 00:04:55.700 --> 00:05:00.100 I still felt like I was able to you know myself and you know, 00:05:00.100 --> 00:05:05.600 it was my idol and she just became like really like my fairy 00:05:05.600 --> 00:05:06.600 Godmother in the studio. 00:05:06.600 --> 00:05:09.400 Just we just connected we bonded and you know, 00:05:09.400 --> 00:05:12.400 our chemistry was just magical just just how I dreamt I dreamt 00:05:12.400 --> 00:05:12.900 it would be. 00:05:12.900 --> 00:05:19.200 Oh, yes, we all remember her her giving you vocal coaching 00:05:19.200 --> 00:05:19.600 in the moment. 00:05:19.600 --> 00:05:28.900 I'm giving her the note that I actually want her to hit. 00:05:28.900 --> 00:05:32.500 I'm singing it in my lower register because I can't give her 00:05:32.500 --> 00:05:35.500 that note in the higher register because that's Whitney's 00:05:35.500 --> 00:05:39.400 rain did you know at that level so I'm like a rainbow, 00:05:39.400 --> 00:05:42.400 but I want her to actually sing it up if she thought I was 00:05:42.400 --> 00:05:43.800 trying to sing low, but I'm like no, 00:05:43.800 --> 00:05:44.900 I want you to sing this note. 00:05:46.800 --> 00:05:57.200 She believes in you so much and she was like from the set of 00:05:57.200 --> 00:05:59.700 this film when you look back at 99070. 00:05:59.700 --> 00:06:01.000 It's so many moment. 00:06:01.000 --> 00:06:04.900 I remember when I first thought that the set like the house 00:06:04.900 --> 00:06:09.000 that but Cinderella lived in with her stepsisters and her stepmother. 00:06:09.000 --> 00:06:11.300 I just remember like this is different. 00:06:11.300 --> 00:06:15.000 This is not something I had ever seen before it was so beautiful. 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:17.100 It just looked like like a fairytale, 00:06:17.100 --> 00:06:20.500 you know, and in reality and I just remember feeling like while 00:06:20.500 --> 00:06:22.800 this is, you know, God is this real. 00:06:22.800 --> 00:06:24.500 Do you know is this something that you know, 00:06:24.500 --> 00:06:26.900 you know, am I going to be? 00:06:26.900 --> 00:06:36.900 Okay and so many other Great Moments with Bernadette Peters 00:06:36.900 --> 00:06:39.700 where I just kept telling her how much you know, 00:06:39.700 --> 00:06:42.400 she inspired me as I do know once when I was coming up with 00:06:42.400 --> 00:06:45.500 an e and all the things that I saw her in Broadway, 00:06:45.500 --> 00:06:46.200 this is everything. 00:06:46.800 --> 00:06:48.100 That was the thing too. 00:06:48.100 --> 00:06:49.200 And I know you mentioned it already. 00:06:49.200 --> 00:06:53.500 But the idea that you made history as the first black back in 00:06:53.500 --> 00:06:57.700 the nineties and we had this wide array of colors and shades 00:06:57.700 --> 00:07:02.600 on the screen when you look at the impact that this movie had 00:07:02.600 --> 00:07:06.600 and then continues to have what does that mean to you to have 00:07:06.600 --> 00:07:09.400 been this Trailblazer in that role? 00:07:09.400 --> 00:07:12.200 I mean, it means everything to me it it it put me in a 00:07:12.200 --> 00:07:18.500 position to be a vessel to be an inspiration 440 for everyone 00:07:18.500 --> 00:07:22.500 in in in especially girls that look like me, 00:07:22.500 --> 00:07:26.300 you know that never drink that they could be a Disney princess. 00:07:26.300 --> 00:07:30.800 Do you know and that is something that I'm so proud of in that 00:07:30.800 --> 00:07:32.800 something I can look back on and go. 00:07:32.800 --> 00:07:36.700 Wow that unbelievable and I can share that with my daughter 00:07:36.700 --> 00:07:38.600 like we're going to watch it for the first time together. 00:07:46.800 --> 00:07:48.900 Happened without your betrayal of Cinderella. 00:07:48.900 --> 00:07:54.200 Do you think I don't know but I would I can say that. 00:07:55.700 --> 00:08:01.300 I feel like an open doors and it's because of Whitney Houston. 00:08:01.300 --> 00:08:05.500 It's because of DoubleTree Hayes Craig and Neil it's because 00:08:05.500 --> 00:08:10.200 of them that I was able to be that person to help open the 00:08:10.200 --> 00:08:13.400 door for you know, so many other you know, 00:08:13.400 --> 00:08:16.000 young young artist that want to do things that they probably 00:08:16.000 --> 00:08:17.500 think are impossible. 00:08:17.500 --> 00:08:20.600 So timing as well. 00:08:20.600 --> 00:08:23.900 This is also coming at the same in the same. 00:08:23.900 --> 00:08:32.200 As the 25th anniversary of Moesha another ground of yours big 00:08:32.200 --> 00:08:34.700 brown breaking nature of that time this role on network television, 00:08:34.700 --> 00:08:38.100 when you think of the things you've gotten to do and and the 00:08:38.100 --> 00:08:40.900 roles you portrayed and how you blazes Trail. 00:08:40.900 --> 00:08:42.400 What have you learned about yourself? 00:08:42.400 --> 00:08:48.500 I have learned so much in a lot of the things that I've experienced 00:08:48.500 --> 00:08:53.500 when I look back I didn't I didn't think that I would ever experienced. 00:08:53.500 --> 00:08:55.400 I wanted to be a singer only. 00:08:55.600 --> 00:09:00.900 Do to be able to do a television show like Moesha, 00:09:00.900 --> 00:09:03.900 you know a young girl Leimert Park, 00:09:03.900 --> 00:09:07.300 you know growing up and in making her own decisions trying 00:09:07.300 --> 00:09:08.500 to find her way in life. 00:09:08.500 --> 00:09:10.900 I didn't know that that was going to happen for me and you know, 00:09:10.900 --> 00:09:13.800 I wasn't an actress, you know that happened in Cinderella 00:09:13.800 --> 00:09:16.900 and all of this is happening around the same time. 00:09:16.900 --> 00:09:20.900 So me looking just outside looking into my life. 00:09:20.900 --> 00:09:23.500 I'm like what's happening what's going on? 00:09:23.500 --> 00:09:25.100 I didn't I just wanted to see him Lord, 00:09:25.100 --> 00:09:27.100 you know, but it it was up. 00:09:27.100 --> 00:09:32.800 It was a bigger plan for me and I feel like it's purposeful 00:09:32.800 --> 00:09:35.500 and I love the fact that I feel like my life is is is 00:09:35.500 --> 00:09:39.300 purposeful and I get to be like I said a vessel to inspire 00:09:39.300 --> 00:09:42.200 other people and I love that and I want to continue to do that 00:09:42.200 --> 00:09:50.900 as I move forward and in the rest of my in my life that 00:09:50.900 --> 00:09:52.300 you've inspired to them. 00:09:55.600 --> 00:09:59.700 Issa Rae has want that sounds so much love from Alicia, 00:09:59.700 --> 00:10:02.300 but Todrick Hall. 00:10:03.900 --> 00:10:09.600 Super crazy about Cinderella and he said that Cinderella 00:10:09.600 --> 00:10:14.300 inspired him to be everything that he wants to be and he has 00:10:14.300 --> 00:10:17.100 a Cinderella doll Whitney doll. 00:10:17.100 --> 00:10:20.700 It's unbelievable. So he was a really cheap fan of the movie. 00:10:20.700 --> 00:10:21.500 He's so excited. 00:10:27.300 --> 00:10:31.000 I know you said that you are excited to watch this with your 00:10:31.000 --> 00:10:34.400 daughter kind of knowing and hoping that this will inspire 00:10:34.400 --> 00:10:42.100 her next Generation mothers and daughters I get to experience 00:10:42.100 --> 00:10:47.000 now that I just hope it brings a lot of Joy a lot of 00:10:47.000 --> 00:10:51.800 love excitement and I hope that people can feel like that dreams are 00:10:51.800 --> 00:10:54.400 really possible because that's what it made me feel like 00:10:54.400 --> 00:10:58.100 after that. I felt like I can do anything and I just hope that 00:10:58.100 --> 00:11:02.000 that is what people take from it and that dreams are always 00:11:02.000 --> 00:11:05.600 true. They're possible and if you see yourself where you want 00:11:05.600 --> 00:11:09.300 to be and you do what you have to do your get their relatives. 00:11:09.300 --> 00:11:10.600 She scrubbed those floors. 00:11:10.600 --> 00:11:25.700 I'm going to always choose impossible. 00:11:26.900 --> 00:11:31.600 I'm going to always choose impossible because that is with my 00:11:31.600 --> 00:11:40.400 fairy Godmother. And that what that's just had to what is next 00:11:40.400 --> 00:11:45.100 you of course congratulations on the accolades for your record. 00:11:45.100 --> 00:11:53.800 And then you have the voice 20 into 20 21 professionally 00:11:53.800 --> 00:11:58.400 after versus and your new album and now heading over to the voice 00:11:58.400 --> 00:12:01.800 and then what's your next big gold your next Impossible 00:12:01.800 --> 00:12:06.100 Dream if you will, but honestly, I'm just I'm just letting 00:12:06.100 --> 00:12:10.200 go and letting the universe guide me into what I am supposed to 00:12:10.200 --> 00:12:11.300 continue to do. 00:12:11.300 --> 00:12:16.000 None of the things that happened were super planted. 00:12:16.000 --> 00:12:18.800 Some things are just you know, they magically happen to me the 00:12:18.800 --> 00:12:21.700 opportunity. I was prepared and things happened, 00:12:21.700 --> 00:12:25.100 but as I go forward, I just want to like I said listen to 00:12:25.100 --> 00:12:29.100 my creative spark, but There's so much more that I feel inspired 00:12:29.100 --> 00:12:30.800 and then in compelled to do so, 00:12:30.800 --> 00:12:33.900 I can't wait to do more of what I what I can do this 00:12:33.900 --> 00:12:40.500 thing acting in and move around a bit or two most about the voice 00:12:40.500 --> 00:12:44.100 experience and and working again with that next Generation. 00:12:44.100 --> 00:12:46.500 I had a great time doing the voice. 00:12:46.500 --> 00:12:48.900 It was it was great to just give you know, 00:12:48.900 --> 00:12:53.700 everything that I've been thinking I've experienced to the Next 00:12:53.700 --> 00:13:05.500 Generation and I just hope Tim Legend win want you to be myself 00:13:05.500 --> 00:13:07.300 no matter what anybody else thinks. 00:13:07.300 --> 00:13:09.000 That was her main thing. 00:13:09.000 --> 00:13:12.600 Is that in to sing from my diaphragm not from your nose. 00:13:13.900 --> 00:13:16.100 Perfect. Well, thank you so much. 00:13:16.100 --> 00:13:20.400 Seriously, this is been the most exciting news of 2021 for me. 00:13:20.400 --> 00:13:25.700 I'm a massive Cinderella fan, and this is just I'm so happy. 00:13:25.700 --> 00:13:28.800 Thank you. I am happy too and thank you for your support. 00:13:28.800 --> 00:13:31.400 I can I can tell you happiness all over your face.