WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:13.800 Why do you know I am an ally pretty bizarre when we first started 00:00:13.800 --> 00:00:18.500 the show and the concept in pre pro and most of the filming 00:00:18.500 --> 00:00:21.400 we it was pretty pandemic. 00:00:21.400 --> 00:00:23.900 So it definitely wasn't with that in mind. 00:00:23.900 --> 00:00:30.800 But the way they've sort of lined up energy between the two storylines 00:00:30.800 --> 00:00:36.800 has been pretty incredible to watch is the wait at the show 00:00:36.800 --> 00:00:42.000 acknowledges how black women have been sidelined and marginalizing 00:00:42.000 --> 00:00:45.600 American television. Like, how do I turn Hayward keeps disregarding 00:00:45.600 --> 00:00:50.400 Monica's inside her and they're so light about Are You The Sassy 00:00:50.400 --> 00:00:59.300 best friend? Yeah, you did so many conversations just really 00:00:59.300 --> 00:01:04.900 trying to find a balance between what we know to be true which 00:01:04.900 --> 00:01:08.600 is an American in the history of American sitcom these black 00:01:08.600 --> 00:01:13.300 characters were sidelined or pushed to the back and then also 00:01:13.300 --> 00:01:17.500 in this world that's not necessarily the case but we're still 00:01:17.500 --> 00:01:22.200 paying homage to a structure in his system that it was so finding 00:01:22.200 --> 00:01:26.500 The Balancing Act for that and then even with myself in performance 00:01:26.500 --> 00:01:29.900 what did I pull from what was my inspiration because there 00:01:29.900 --> 00:01:33.300 is an aspect of it that I did have to lean into in order 00:01:33.300 --> 00:01:35.900 to keep it true to the time. 00:01:35.900 --> 00:01:39.700 But what I love is that we have gotten to see the evolution 00:01:39.700 --> 00:01:44.800 of where black women have lived in the spaces and so she goes 00:01:44.800 --> 00:01:50.400 from this sort of sideline space to really taking charge in with 00:01:50.400 --> 00:01:55.100 my modern-day Monica taking charge and leading trying to lead 00:01:55.100 --> 00:01:58.900 this investigation in a way that is 00:01:59.900 --> 00:02:02.800 Pathetic and with compassion and with understanding 00:02:02.800 --> 00:02:08.600 realizing that Wanda is grieving and Monica dealing with her 00:02:08.600 --> 00:02:12.000 own grief of having lost her mother while Monica was bleeped 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:17.000 away. I think this is her way of unpacking her own grief and 00:02:17.000 --> 00:02:25.000 Trauma by trying to help wander through hers the superhero 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:29.300 that she does become in the comics fans on Twitter had been 00:02:29.300 --> 00:02:32.100 fan casting me as Monica rambeau. 00:02:32.100 --> 00:02:34.500 So that's how I was even introduced to her. 00:02:34.500 --> 00:02:35.700 They were like, 00:02:36.900 --> 00:02:38.100 I'm like, who is this? 00:02:38.100 --> 00:02:40.500 This is way pre Captain Marvel. 00:02:40.500 --> 00:02:43.800 I looked her up and then just very casually like all she's 00:02:43.800 --> 00:02:49.500 pretty cool. She'll never see the light of day moving on introduction to 00:02:49.500 --> 00:02:52.300 her maybe like five or six years ago and fan started doing 00:02:52.300 --> 00:02:56.200 that. It's so when she showed up in Captain Marvel as a young 00:02:56.200 --> 00:03:00.000 girl. I was like, okay, but again, 00:03:00.000 --> 00:03:02.700 you don't expect that. 00:03:02.700 --> 00:03:04.000 I didn't expect that. 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:09.900 She would become a full grown woman and character in the MCU. 00:03:09.900 --> 00:03:14.000 So it was a pleasant surprise to learn that not only would 00:03:14.000 --> 00:03:16.000 I be able to tell this woman story, 00:03:16.000 --> 00:03:21.600 but that the world would be able to see a street of black female 00:03:21.600 --> 00:03:24.600 another black female superhero in the MCU. 00:03:25.700 --> 00:03:28.000 Monitor would be as you pointed out. 00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:32.000 She will be one of the very first human black women to become 00:03:32.000 --> 00:03:33.300 a major superhero. 00:03:35.400 --> 00:03:38.100 Obviously that thinking was that was part of your thinking 00:03:38.100 --> 00:03:42.800 I know this is tricky because you can't you do it right now. 00:03:47.300 --> 00:03:49.700 Little bit about it from a representation Sandpoint. 00:03:49.700 --> 00:03:55.300 What's it what it would mean for having a black woman be a superhero 00:03:55.300 --> 00:04:03.600 in this context and we get to see black people in the superhero 00:04:03.600 --> 00:04:07.700 aspects, but it's particularly black women when we have had black 00:04:07.700 --> 00:04:11.900 men. I would say there's been a disproportionate 00:04:11.900 --> 00:04:14.900 amount of men to women and that's in everything in life. 00:04:14.900 --> 00:04:16.700 And if we're honest, do you know, 00:04:16.700 --> 00:04:23.000 so being a black female superhero is really exciting for me because 00:04:23.000 --> 00:04:26.400 in especially in this context being in a show where you're 00:04:26.400 --> 00:04:30.000 in people's homes because I get the opportunity for people 00:04:30.000 --> 00:04:32.900 to see this black woman in to empathize with her to get to know 00:04:32.900 --> 00:04:34.200 her for her to become. 00:04:34.200 --> 00:04:36.200 I'm in their homes every week. 00:04:36.200 --> 00:04:41.100 So you use a baby get to engage with her humanity and I think 00:04:41.100 --> 00:04:44.900 that's so important and it's important for young kids of color 00:04:44.900 --> 00:04:46.900 to see people that look like 00:04:47.200 --> 00:04:59.600 young black girls young black boys and just everyone talking 00:04:59.600 --> 00:05:05.600 all while she was in the running for the job since Candyman, 00:05:05.600 --> 00:05:05.800 so 00:05:07.600 --> 00:05:08.500 Yes. 00:05:11.200 --> 00:05:11.700 I don't know. 00:05:11.700 --> 00:05:13.000 I'm just talk to her all the time. 00:05:13.000 --> 00:05:17.600 So it's not like, you know, you're in The Marshall Project. 00:05:17.600 --> 00:05:19.900 She's going up for Marvel projects. 00:05:19.900 --> 00:05:21.700 Did she started saying hey, I'm doing this. 00:05:21.700 --> 00:05:24.100 Can you not say that to me. Now? 00:05:24.100 --> 00:05:27.200 You feel like you're being cagey. 00:05:27.200 --> 00:05:30.600 All right. I'm trying to 00:05:34.300 --> 00:05:43.200 Okay, okay to what people think in the internet has been a lot of 00:05:43.200 --> 00:05:48.300 speculation that the friend that Monica is going to go see 00:05:48.300 --> 00:05:51.600 my B Reed Richards who becomes mr. 00:05:51.600 --> 00:05:57.400 Fantastic, you know how to scale of not happening to I'm going to 00:05:57.400 --> 00:06:00.200 be silent and my silence will confirm your anticipation 00:06:00.200 --> 00:06:07.800 is warranted. What should we expect to keep watching and find 00:06:07.800 --> 00:06:09.200 out what happened? 00:06:09.200 --> 00:06:14.200 Okay, that wasn't silent and it wasn't the other one. 00:06:14.200 --> 00:06:17.900 So I'm not even looking at you right now.