It was in the movie.
I got to think about my whole arsenal of films.
Oh, shit, I thought I had it.
You know, it's your girl.
You act like we're in Beverly Hills or something, girl.
You in the hood, too.
This is one of them days.
Easily, I knew this because it's the most, it's like at the top of my brain.
You act like we in Beverly Hills or somewhere.
Girl, you in the hood too.
This was a crazy scene.
Shooting this scene was nuts because we were doing a lot of improv.
So it was just like every take was 100% different.
There were certain things that stayed that we repeated.
This line was something like that because you know you always go to these places and they trying to tell you about yourself like they up here in the damn queendom.
You know, it's like you struggling as well.
You know, you sometimes got to call people out like that.
Yes, there's definitely a number two in the works.
I can't tell you too much about it, but just know we're looking for more gags and goops.
Oh, oh, oh, I know it ain't, I know it ain't the stallion.
You know it's your girl.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, I know it ain't, I know it ain't the stallion.
You know it's your girl.
I love that y'all put this on here, because I thought this was just like about movies and TV shows that I've done.
But memes have become like TV shows and movies to me as well, because I don't even know how these moments get quotable.
But it's just so.
It's so kitschy and cute to me and it's fun.
I can't tell you what was happening that day other than that your girl was trying to survive.
It was a lot going on. on.
We was at the Met Gala.
You know, people were talking, screaming.
They're in my ear with the IFB telling me we've missed it.
We got to move on.
We got to go here, there.
I'm trying to keep my face happy and cool and fresh, but make sure I get the next guest.
So then it becomes.
You know what I mean?
Because I was trying to maintain the moment.
Sometimes I don't know when a moment of mine has gone viral.
My friends usually would tell me.
I don't know, maybe I'm not clicking my own videos enough for it to be going off for me, but every now and then I'll see something happen because my friend will send it to me and she'll be like girl.
Did you see this?
You know what I mean?
And I'm like, oh, that's so crazy.
That's so cool.
And honestly, I just think it's sweet.
When you go viral, which by the way, It could go good or crazy.
You never know.
But it usually means that people are relating to you in some way.
You know, they feel seen, you know, by you in some way or they just thought it was funny.
And I think, you know, that's good.
I love whenever I could be a part of bringing someone joy or, you know, laughing at me, with me.
It's all good either way, you know.
You know what?
I have not seen Megan since that day.
Could you guys believe that?
We've made this moment together.
You know, and it was like, you're my girl, you're my girl.
And I have not seen her, but all I do know is her and that man look good together.
I love love for others because it's been a long time.
We're not gonna kill him, are we?
We're not gonna kill him, are we?
When did I ever have somebody that would need to be murdered?
Hmm, this is very interesting.
We're not gonna kill him.
I gotta think about my whole arsenal of films.
When did I ever possibly kill somebody?
We're not gonna kill them, are we?
How did I say it?
We ain't gonna kill them, are we?
That's the thing about me.
I could've been doing a comedy.
I could've been doing a horror movie.
I could've been doing a drama.
We're not gonna kill them, are we?
Like, what did I do?
What did I do that would have somebody killed?
Maybe this was Scream?
Would it have been the Scream franchise?
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh!
I know what it was.
It was actually horror comedy.
It was Scream Queens.
Oh shit, I thought I had it.
Oh, hustlers.
We not gonna kill them, are we?
Oh yeah, that scene, that scene when I was like I gotta get out of Dodge because I can't be here with y'all.
I'ma go to jail.
We not gonna kill him, are we?
This was so much fun.
Also, improv stuff.
A lot of fun doing hustlers.
Like, shout out to my girl J-Lo.
She's gonna always be my girl.
And we had such a good time filming this movie.
I just remember being in New York.
It was just such a fabulous, like, experience.
First of all, I've always been a huge fan of Jennifer Lopez.
And then Lorene Scafaria, she's the director.
She was so great when I met her and she really liked a lot of my improv work and some of just like seeing me, even like on late night shows.
So I feel like she really understood like my voice.
And so I was excited at the opportunity to be able to again work in the traditional landscape, using some of those things that I had been working and curating on my own outside of the traditional system.
You know what I mean?
Especially coming from being a kid entertainer and then growing up in my adult career and wondering like where you know what work was most inspiring to me.
This was like a fun way to work with other women like and just like have fun, improv.
I remember working with lily reinhardt.
She's still like just so awesome.
It was great working with her and just all the girls coming together and having those crazy scenes where we were like drugging these dudes.
It's crazy that we call that movie fun.
It was kind of scandalous.
It's always cool when you can get a group of women together and kind of do this heist type of situation.
I think the last time that we've seen an ensemble like the one with myself and Taylor Page and Naomi Ackie in this upcoming movie with Boots, I Love Boosters was like maybe like set it off, but it was so much darker in terms of tone and vibe.
And so I think we have this ensemble situation where these women are fighting against the system in.
I Love Boosters, but we have this whimsical kind of flamboyant nature that only somebody like Boots Riley could bring to it.
That, I think, feels a little bit more hopeful to me.
I think you know a lot of themes, heavy themes, which you can always expect from Boots, like you know, commentary on, just like consumerism and all the things that we're dealing with.
But the way that it metabolizes in the film, I think, is for me reading it and getting a chance to be a part of it, It just felt like I don't know.
It's just like I don't know how he's able to put all those flavors together to make one good soup.
But I'm excited for people to check it out and see.
Bitch, I'm about to smack you so hard your tampons gonna pop out.
This is in the middle of New Orleans shooting Scream Queens, baby.
This is good old Zay Day Williams, okay?
Bitch, I'm about to smack you so hard your tampons gonna pop out.
This show was so satirical.
I almost feel like I don't know that everybody really got the vibe when it was out.
I think now people appreciate the tone for what it was.
But obviously anybody that's a Ryan Murphy fan understands that a lot of times you know everything's not what it seems.
It's very ironic, a lot of his stuff.
And I think Scream Queens was right in that bag.
This Zayday Williams character, I didn't know where she was going in this series.
I didn't know what her storyline was gonna be because they was always withholding every episode.
We never knew if we were gonna die, if we were gonna live.
But I'm like, if y'all let my black ass die, then y'all are done.
So I knew I had to make it to the end of the season just for the political purposes alone.
Anyhow, the best scream queen we already know is Jamie Lee Curtis.
First of all, she comes from a lineage of scream queens.
You cannot get away from her mother.
I mean, come on, slanko.
All I'm saying is Jamie Lee Curtis cannot be undone.
I love Jamie too much.
And by the way, the body is banging.
Have y'all realized?
Yeah, she's hot too.
Okay, I like hanging by my tail, and if you geniuses are normal, this species is gonna end up extinct.
I know this just by context clues alone.
It must be Ice Age.
It has to be because she was a mammoth and they definitely did go extinct.
I like hanging by my tail.
And if you geniuses are normal, the species is going to end up extinct.
This was like one of the first kind of big cartoon franchises I'd ever done.
And this was cool because I got to do it with Queen Latifah.
She played my mom.
Obviously, we didn't get to work together in person, but I had worked with her in person as a kid.
And then even again.
After that, I think she and I were both doing Joyful Noise while also doing Ice Age at the same time.
Honestly, doing voiceover work is some of the hardest things that you can do.
And let me be clear it's fun, it's chill, you don't have to do hair and makeup, so there are a lot of great pluses.
But when it gets to do those efforts, oh my gosh, they're like so you're rolling down a cliff, then you hit a bump, then you go flying up into the air and then water splashes on you.
You start laughing, but then you cry.
And so you're in there like oh stop.
And it's like why did i have to do all that?
And then they show you like this claymation and it's like what the hell am i looking at?
So your imagination is very much needed for animation in a major way.
Oh yeah, I didn't think I was gonna win because whoa.
This is me winning the NAACP Entertainer of the Year Award against a few really awesome people, by the way.
But I was specifically pointing this towards Cynthia Erivo because I lived for her performance in Wicked.
I didn't think I was gonna win because whoa!
Honestly, I might get got by saying this, but I never saw it on Broadway, which is like sad.
You know what I mean?
It sucks.
It stinks.
But I got to see it in the movie and I just loved it.
You know what I mean?
I just loved it.
Like it was just really empowering.
It was very whimsical, magical, vibed out.
And, yeah, I just had to show that lady some love.
Cynthia deserved it because she did a great role in that.
And I also liked her in Harriet Tubman.
She played that role good, too.
It was very...
I feel like it was funny because around the time that the movie came out, I feel like everybody was doing the riff.
When you look at the end of that moment, when she's out there and she's like no one's going to bring me down.
Like, it just was really, it felt like, oh.
I felt it like a, hmm, in my soul.
And so, yeah, I just was doing it in my life.
Like, even it got to the point where even my son started trying to do it with me.
He was like, oh.
Like, it's so cute.
Okay, I hope it don't sound ridiculous.
I don't know who this man is.
This quote comes from my lie detector test with Vanity Fair, where I said sorry to this man.
I didn't know who this is.
Keep walking down the street, I wouldn't know a thing.
I hope I don't sound ridiculous.
I don't know who this man is.
This will forever be one of the most like question mark.
Question mark.
Question mark pop culture moments for me.
Meme culture baby.
For me, even aside from me being like a meme person or a person that is memed I've always loved memes like we'll have you know schools and stuff, like we'll have a class on it in pop culture at some point, or just media literacy at some point.
It really like not only represents like a moment or something that's funny, but like culture at that moment in time, like what, what was happening in the zeitgeist, and so i don't know, it's just so cool to me, like i love memes and so the fact that i get to be a meme is like hey, i live for it.
You know what i'm saying.
Yes, I definitely know who that man is.
It was interesting.
I'm naturally inquisitive.
No idea where I said that, but this is 100% true.
I'm such a why, why, why, why, why, why, why human being.
I always have a bunch of questions.
Sorry to my parents.
From 20 years ago.
20 years ago, where did I say I'm naturally inquisitive?
Who did I say it to?
It was in the movie.
Oh, yeah, in the movie.
I think I said it to Doc.
I was like, I'm naturally inquisitive.
I was being like smart-alecky or whatever like that.
That's crazy.
Oh, Akilah and the Bee.
I'm naturally inquisitive.
Wonderful time.
Also, crazily enough, I was doing an interview in the movie of Akilah and the Bee with Lauren Sanchez, who's now with Jeff Bezos.
We tight, girl.
Give me some money.
Anyway, I was 10 years old when I auditioned, 11 years old when I got the part and filmed it, and 12 when he came out.
It took a minute.
This was back when Lionsgate was really indie.
Now they have a lot of money.
I did always wanna act a fool.
You better watch out.
Look, who is you playing with?
I always liked to play around.
I think for me, like, hamming it up as a kid, I didn't know what was called acting, per se.
I liked to, like, just, you know, get into a character, get into a vibe, you know what I mean?
And then my parents slowly would start telling me about acting, because maybe they knew that I would like it.
Like, I don't know.
But they also, like, that's how they fell in love.
So they were always talking about acting.
And they took me to my first musical show when I was, like, five years old.
I went to the Black Ensemble to see this Musical of Jackie Wilson story.
You know, like Jackie Wilson is the one who did, my heart is crying crying, Lonely teardrop.
He's really good, my dad's favorite singer, And so I would always like hear about it acting everything like that.
And so then, when my parents asked me if I wanted to do it, I was kind of like yes, seems like some just fun stuff to do.
Charlie became a career.
I mean it was like I blinked and I was in that my own TV show It was crazy
