Episode Transcript
[00:00:04] Speaker A: Yo, it's effective immediately.
[00:00:05] Speaker B: I'm DJ Head and it's your favorite homegirl, Gina Views.
[00:00:07] Speaker A: We are joined by a special guest, international superstar, on the show today.
We all are big fans of Mr. Tyler Perry's beauty in Black. Amber Rain is here. Welcome to the show.
[00:00:20] Speaker B: Hi.
[00:00:20] Speaker C: Not international superstar. I don't think I ever heard that one.
[00:00:24] Speaker A: You know Netflix is a global company.
[00:00:27] Speaker C: Yes, absolutely.
[00:00:28] Speaker A: I don't know if it was on
[00:00:29] Speaker C: that email or not, but absolutely. We definitely have gone number one globally. So I guess, okay, putting it all together sounds good. It sounds good. I'll take it. I'll take it.
[00:00:41] Speaker A: You know what I'm saying? If you don't do it, somebody else won't either. So I appreciate you and congratulations on all the success. We're huge fans of the show here. I don't know if you're aware, but we had.
For the fans, I'll say we had Mallory and Horace on the show and Norman.
Oh, we did have Norman on the show.
So, you know, you're here to join us today. And first and foremost, though, I just got to get. I just got to get this. This out real quick.
For the specific show of Beauty and Black, did you already.
Were you already involved, like, from the inception of the show, specific to your character? Because I think it's a little vain for you to have a character named after yourself.
[00:01:23] Speaker C: So I don't know which came first, the chicken or the egg. Honestly, like, people ask me that all the time. Like, were you named? Did he name Rain after you? I honestly don't know. But when I went for the callback, the in person callback, they spelled my name R A I N. So I was like, I'll take that as a hint.
So honestly, I don't know. I've never asked Mr. Perry. I lost my earring.
[00:01:45] Speaker A: Yeah, it's all good. Well, rumor has it that, you know, he always has an idea for the person he wants for these specific roles. So that's why I asked that.
[00:01:54] Speaker C: Yeah. Well, if you're familiar with Joe's college road trip, we actually filmed that first. And that's when he told me that he had a role in mind for me. I still had to go through the audition process. That's why I'm like, I honestly, I can't say.
[00:02:08] Speaker A: Okay, for sure.
[00:02:09] Speaker B: Is that when the Joe's road trip. Is that your first time doing anything with Tyler Perry or how did you become part of the universe?
[00:02:17] Speaker C: No. Well, it's the first that he remembers.
I started working at TPS. Oh, like probably 10 years ago now, I was a body double for Tika Sumter. But before that I was an extra. Like, I've been around, but we worked.
We worked together on Bruh and I had like a co star role in there. I was a day player, so I was only there for one day. But like I said, he doesn't remember any of this.
[00:02:48] Speaker B: Wait, we gotta talk about you being a body double for Tika Sumpter.
[00:02:51] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:02:52] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:02:53] Speaker C: So she was pregnant at the time and I fit the description.
So, yeah, I was a body double for her.
[00:03:01] Speaker B: What? Yeah, it's just tripping me out because I didn't even know that that show required that. Cause I'm a huge fan of that show. I'm familiar with that show. So I didn't even know that. I mean, I guess.
[00:03:14] Speaker C: What was you in the tub when she.
[00:03:16] Speaker B: Yeah, so it was a.
[00:03:18] Speaker C: It was actually.
So this was for the haves and the have nots years ago, but it was actually a sex scene, an intimate scene.
So, yeah, I guess they didn't.
Her character wasn't pregnant and she was.
So they used my body for that part.
[00:03:36] Speaker B: Okay.
The Haven and have nots is such a good show. I hated that it ended. I love the have and the have nots. I hated that. Everybody, spoiler alert for the people. If you haven't finished, what, the eighth, I think it was eight seasons, maybe nine seasons. If you ain't finished it, you know, everybody passed away. All the characters end up dying.
Yeah. Okay, so you. You were a body double for Tika Sumpters. And then what else were you doing with. With Tyler Perry?
[00:04:00] Speaker C: So like I said, I did a co star role on Bruh, the show that he had on bet, and that was the first time that he directed me. So.
And I guess that was maybe seven or eight years ago.
[00:04:16] Speaker B: And he doesn't remember this?
[00:04:18] Speaker C: No, he does not remember. No.
Okay, so I used that clip in my reel. I'm like, oh, I remember it vividly.
[00:04:25] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. Okay, so now fast forward. We got Beauty in Black. What was your initial response or initial reaction when you saw the script for your character and your character storyline?
[00:04:39] Speaker C: It was for me. It was.
I guess initially I was kind of challenged by it because when I was reading the size, when we got the size for the audition, I was like, oh, Kimmy feels like me, like as a person because I'm ambitious. Like, you know, and rain is like, all we gonna be is hoes. And that's it. Sorry, I don't know if I can say that. But yeah, so it was definitely different for me. It wasn't, I wasn't playing myself for sure.
And so. But it was, it was like, you know, I know this girl. Like, I, I, I, I know people who are like this, who are comfortable or just.
It's all they know, you know, like, even my dad, like, he's been a post office worker for 20 plus years, and it's just like, you have so much potential, but it's like you are kind of complacent. So it's like. I get it. I get it.
[00:05:35] Speaker A: Is there a reason why you, Is there a reason why when you read the sides, you were like, kimmy is. I mean, I'm sorry. Was there a reason why you felt like Kimmi was more you? Given the fact that I know I saw in. I looked at something and it said, basically, you used to model. Right.
And then I would assume that this show is kind of like, hit close to home in that way because of the nature of how you all met Mallory in the beginning type shit.
[00:06:04] Speaker C: Right, Right. Yeah. So I've worked at those hair shows like the Bronner Brothers. Like, I was, you know, doing brand ambassadorships, so it's like I, I know I knew this world before we even stepped foot into it. So, yeah, I definitely, when I say it felt like me, I just mean I could relate more to Kimmy as a. On a personal level.
[00:06:27] Speaker A: Okay, I got you.
[00:06:28] Speaker B: Well, I want to commend you for the way that you are, like, slaying on this road because you're selling it so good that I believe that this is you.
[00:06:34] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:06:34] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:06:35] Speaker C: A lot of people do.
[00:06:36] Speaker B: You do Rain so good. I don't know if you say on Twitter, but the viewers are debating if Rain, like you in real life, your character. I mean, you as a actress in real life, if you, if that's your BBL or if that's Rain's bbl, like, this is a debate right now on social media, Child.
[00:06:55] Speaker C: I hear that's like, the number one comment I get. Like, people slide in my dm or they're commenting under my picture, they're like, where's that bbl? Like, if I post, like, today I posted me in the gym, I am this big, and people like, oh, where's your, where's your bbl? I'm like, come on, grow up. It's not real.
[00:07:14] Speaker B: So what's in your pants?
With all due respect.
[00:07:19] Speaker C: No, I love that question.
[00:07:21] Speaker A: Me too.
[00:07:23] Speaker C: So it was, it was a whole process. Like, I even, I have, like, a Picture, like a. A photo dump from season one when I was getting the. The butt cast on me, but basically.
So first we started off with, like. I don't know if you've seen those, like, waist trainer, like, body sculpting things.
[00:07:47] Speaker B: You were, like, the post op, like, after you get.
[00:07:49] Speaker C: Yeah, so they have some of those with, like, padding, like, hip padding and butt padding built in. So we started with that, and then, like, the. The wardrobe or the costumer, she sent pictures to producers or Mr. Perry, and they were like, I'm bigger. So then they started, like, stuffing more stuff in there, and it was, like, not bigger. So then they were like, okay, we're gonna have to get something made. So they brought in a special effects person and. And they made a cast for me. And then they, like. I think it was made out of, like, Styrofoam or something. It was pretty light, but they, like, built it into some shorts. So it was. I really had on, like, shorts, but it was just, like, padding and, like, Styrofoam all around. It was huge. It was huge.
[00:08:36] Speaker A: Damn.
[00:08:36] Speaker B: I know that it's not. It's like. It's all fiction and it's a show, but I was happy that the show did touch on, like, a BBL gone wrong, because 100%, you know, it's relatable. We hear horror stories all the time with people passing away or, you know, like, people getting really, really sick or they just have to get it removed, just in general because it's unhealthy or it wasn't, you know, done right. Did you. After the. The season aired, were anybody. Did anybody reach out to you about their, like, personal situations?
[00:09:05] Speaker C: No, I haven't talked to anybody personally. Well, people that are like, oh, I know a girl, but, like, not anybody that, like, dealt with it themselves. But, yeah, like, I. I think that part went over a lot of people's heads. So I'm glad you touched on that because this is a real thing. Like, people are really, like, dying or just getting really sick because they're taking the easy or what they think is the easy or the cheap way out. So I. I think it's like a. It's a cautionary tale, honestly, in that
[00:09:38] Speaker A: same vein of how you and Kimmy met. What about the plot line or the through line of y' all kind of being trafficked and that whole narrative that's been for, like, two seasons at this point, like, the whole time.
Was that, like, a decision? I mean, I'm sorry. From a creative standpoint two part question. From a creative standpoint, did you all have discussions about how to incorporate that with sensitivities to the climate of what's going on? And then the second part to the question is, did that hit home for anybody involved?
[00:10:08] Speaker C: Well, we definitely discussed and we did a lot of research and it was already pretty much written that way, so we didn't have to add anything.
But we definitely were sensitive to the fact that it was.
That it's a real issue. And then we're shooting in Atlanta and Atlanta is a huge mecca for a lot of those types of, you know, those types of things, sex trafficking and human trafficking and all that. So we were definitely sensitive to it.
I don't know why I'm trying to hold on to it.
So. And then, I'm sorry, what was the second part?
[00:10:53] Speaker A: The second part was just. What did that hit home for anybody, like during those scenes? Because I know those are emotional scenes and specific when you all were like with Kimmy's sister and stuff like that.
[00:11:04] Speaker C: Yeah. So. Well, just being a woman, I haven't personally known anybody that was kidnapped or sex trafficked, but just as a woman and having to be on guard everywhere you go. Like, I think, you know, especially I feel like men, I see these like back and forth debates online all the time about, you know, like, if we were stuck in the forest with a man or a bear, we would choose the bear. Like, you know, because it's like we are unsafe around not all men, but just in general. It's like, you know, just having to be extra cautious everywhere we go as women because there is a risk of our lives, you know, us being snatched up, us being, you know, on and on. So I think we were both are all just very sensitive to that for sure.
[00:12:02] Speaker B: Do you guys know where the storyline is heading? Like season one? Do you know what's gonna happen the last episode, Season two?
[00:12:11] Speaker C: No.
[00:12:12] Speaker B: No.
We had Crystal Stewart here, Mallory's character, and I told her, I said, I see a future where Kimmy and Mallory actually link up, where they become friends.
So going into, I guess going out of season one into season two before getting the script, did you ever see you guys being working with Mallory at all?
[00:12:35] Speaker C: No, I definitely didn't.
No, I, if anything, like, I thought it was just gonna be like a huge rivalry the whole time, like, you know, them versus each other or us versus her.
Yeah, I definitely didn't see, especially three of us, you know. So, yeah, it was, it was a surprise for me when I got the second, the second, the Second season script
[00:13:04] Speaker B: is Japanega your writing or Tyler Perry's writing?
[00:13:09] Speaker C: That's that crazy, man.
I did not. And then he was very adamant about it.
[00:13:15] Speaker B: Say Japanese this and that.
[00:13:17] Speaker C: Like, no, that's him all day.
[00:13:19] Speaker A: Okay, I got another question. Speaking of, when we had Krystal Stewart here, she was talking about, oh, my God, I'm such a nice person. I don't even say the.
I have a hard time saying these things to other human beings.
What lines to you in Rain's character that were crazy or, like, standoffish? Like, I love to. It smell like Jim Crow. Like, that's one of my. I say that now just regularly, but what's one of those rain lines for you that was like, oh, my God, why I have to say this?
[00:13:45] Speaker C: Yeah, it was definitely the Jeff nigga. That was crazy.
When I was telling Mallory burn up in the house, like.
Like, I'm definitely, like, a saver, you know, Captain Save a Hoe. So I would have jumped in the fire.
So all of that was crazy.
Yeah. Japanese is probably number one, though, because it's like, who thinks of this?
[00:14:13] Speaker B: What about a scene so crazy?
[00:14:15] Speaker A: What about a scene to you that was like, oh, my God, that was crazy?
[00:14:20] Speaker C: Us jumping Roy for sure.
Sorry to spoiler alert, but that was.
[00:14:25] Speaker B: Hey, I was standing up in a
[00:14:27] Speaker C: living room like, kiss that, nigga.
[00:14:30] Speaker B: I love it. And you come in with your extra kicks. Yes, yes.
[00:14:34] Speaker C: We all had to, you know, get our licks in.
[00:14:38] Speaker B: Do you. Okay, without giving us any spoilers for next season? Cause according to Twitter, season three already shot. I'm not asking you to confirm or deny that, but just from the outside, looking in, as a viewer, as a spectator, do you think that range judgment about Japanese? Do you think his, like, her judgment is a little clouded because she possibly looks at him as a love interest? Cause I don't trust him.
[00:15:01] Speaker A: No, she want him. She for sure want him.
[00:15:03] Speaker B: I don't trust him.
[00:15:04] Speaker C: I don't think Ryan wants him.
[00:15:07] Speaker A: That's Cap. She trying to throw us off for next season.
[00:15:10] Speaker B: This Ryan gonna fuck around and be pregnant.
[00:15:13] Speaker A: Yeah, that's what I'm saying, bro. Like, it's all good. I do want to jump into a couple of these episodes, though.
The first. Well, you brought up the one about y' all jumping Roy. To me, that was a powerful episode because that was the click up episode.
And I know she has hella questions about that because she brought that she actually low key is responsible kind of for that rumor, you know what I'm saying? Of y' all Clicking up. But when you. When you did, like, like, you just answered her question about you didn't know, you didn't see it going that way. But when you did read that part, did you was like, ooh, people are gonna fuck with this, or, like, what were your. What were your thoughts on it?
[00:15:48] Speaker C: I was really excited. I couldn't wait to film that part. I've known Julian for years. We worked on another show together, so I was just excited about jumping him in the first place.
But just like I said, it was a surprise to me that all of us were gonna be clicked up.
[00:16:07] Speaker B: So, yeah, also, same episode, I really, really enjoyed the dialogue between Mallory, Kimmi and Rayn because we finally got everyone's backstory.
That was another piece of. When we did our interview, I asked him, like, when are we going to get everyone's backstory? And why is everybody so aggressive? And, you know, like, why is there so much tension amongst the characters? Did you know what your character had already gone through before season two?
[00:16:34] Speaker C: No. So when I was doing, like, my backdrop, like, just on my own, just working through the character, I kind of put the pieces together. It's kind of like just filling out a. Like. Or putting a puzzle together, but not having all the pieces. So when I. When she gave that. That monologue, it. Or, you know, when I read that monologue, I was like, okay. But it was along the lines of what I. What I expected.
It was very, very similar. Of course, I didn't know about the. The. The abortions and all that, but, yeah, it was. It was like, okay. I was. I was in the right realm.
[00:17:14] Speaker B: Yeah. Same episode. This is not related to your character, but if you can just shed some light and tell us why they all keep telling Mallory she got a weave or a lace front, they, like, three people done called her out, said, that's not your hair.
[00:17:28] Speaker A: Crystal store done went on her Instagram.
[00:17:30] Speaker C: It's a good one. It's a good one.
It looks very natural.
[00:17:35] Speaker B: So is it supposed to be Mallory hair? Like, what is it supposed to be Mallory?
[00:17:39] Speaker C: I don't think so.
[00:17:39] Speaker B: I don't think so.
[00:17:40] Speaker C: But, you know, Mallory be lying.
She just be lying.
[00:17:45] Speaker A: You know, y' all got Crystal Stewart on her own personal Instagram. Like, this is my hair.
Y' all got me fucked up.
[00:17:53] Speaker B: Like, so far, what's been the most difficult scene for you to shoot?
[00:18:00] Speaker C: Ooh.
Hmm.
That's a great question.
[00:18:07] Speaker B: One of the difficult ones for me to watch was definitely your character getting the BBL and then just even, like, laying in the Hospital and stuff. And just as a viewer of us thinking that your character's not going to make it because we were introduced to you and Kimmi early on. First, y'. All, the first. You know, you guys were the first characters that we was introduced to, and we kind of. It's being that you're black, you're relatable. Y' all there to get a scholarship, you know, like, you looking up to this black woman. So it was very, very difficult when I thought you died.
[00:18:37] Speaker C: Yeah, I.
I would say, yeah. I mean, well, they even kind of teased that Rain was dead. A lot of people thought she was dead. The beginning of season one.
As far as filming, though.
Oh, I don't know. I don't. I don't. I wouldn't say anything. Was, like, really difficult to film.
Maybe the scenes around, like, whenever me and Kimmy have those, like, emotional moments when she's like, you know, I can't believe this is real.
So it's like I have to pull from the fact that, like, we have gone through a lot of stuff, you know, to get here. So I think maybe those. Cause it's more, like, emotional. Yeah.
[00:19:33] Speaker A: I have a couple of questions about the club because Rain is now an entrepreneur, and she can't let this fucking club go.
She just cannot let this club go.
I don't wanna dive into next season, but in your mind, does Rain still allow the back parking lot to be cracking?
[00:19:53] Speaker C: I don't think so. I don't even know if she knows that's going on.
That's crazy.
[00:19:59] Speaker A: Like, that back parking lot cracking, though,
[00:20:01] Speaker C: Even watching Season, I was like, no, I must have skipped that part because y' all was going crazy back.
[00:20:06] Speaker B: I was off work that day.
[00:20:09] Speaker A: You knew it was up.
[00:20:11] Speaker B: Do you know about if our clubs in Atlanta really like that?
[00:20:14] Speaker C: No, not that I know of.
[00:20:16] Speaker B: Not because I. Sometimes I even be watching all the queens men. Like, is it really cracking like that out there?
[00:20:22] Speaker C: I. I've been to a. My fair share of strip clubs, being from Atlanta, and I ain't never seen all that going on. But I am not there for that as well. So I don't know.
[00:20:35] Speaker B: Where's Body?
No, y' all lying to us. Y' all is lying to us.
[00:20:43] Speaker C: She died.
[00:20:44] Speaker B: She gone. Officially, Body is gone. For real. Cause y', all, they kind of like. Like, I feel like the dialogue about Body, like, it was just, like, brushed over a little. Yeah, we seen her get hit by the car and all of that, but it's like, I don't know. Is she official? Officially, like. Like got smoked.
[00:21:01] Speaker C: No. Well, I.
Without saying too much, I think it was just like some off.
Off screen stuff, so. Yeah, but that's all you.
[00:21:12] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:21:13] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:21:13] Speaker B: Thank you.
[00:21:14] Speaker A: Oh, that makes sense.
[00:21:15] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:21:16] Speaker A: Okay, my. My last question is about Rain and Kimmy's relationships. Do you. Do you foresee them falling out?
Because there was some.
Let me. Let me. Let me explain why.
[00:21:29] Speaker B: It was a little tension. It was a little tension. Last two episodes.
It was quick, but it was like a little. Probably just a little friendly tension.
[00:21:38] Speaker C: Yeah, I don't think so. I feel like they locked in. I feel like they locked in.
They're both very loyal.
[00:21:47] Speaker A: Look, peep this, though. Just hear me out. Hear me out, though. When Rain lost her sister the second time, right?
[00:21:54] Speaker C: Kimmy.
[00:21:56] Speaker A: Rain lost Kimmy's sister.
[00:21:58] Speaker C: Oh, I. Oh, oh, okay.
[00:22:00] Speaker A: I mean, I could say you, but yeah.
[00:22:02] Speaker B: No, angel lost the sister.
[00:22:04] Speaker C: Right.
[00:22:06] Speaker A: That wasn't right. You're right.
[00:22:07] Speaker B: You see how they blame a black woman?
[00:22:09] Speaker C: Angel was supposed to be watching her.
[00:22:11] Speaker A: You're right.
[00:22:12] Speaker B: Angel was supposed to be watching.
[00:22:13] Speaker A: But. No, that means.
Okay, but. No but look, that makes you a bad delegator, right?
[00:22:19] Speaker C: That's true.
[00:22:19] Speaker A: I'm not gonna let you know.
[00:22:20] Speaker C: Kimmy trusted me. Kimmy ain't trust angels.
[00:22:23] Speaker A: Nobody trusts angels.
And then. Okay, my last second question is, do you see angel making it through?
[00:22:30] Speaker B: Angel's outta here.
[00:22:31] Speaker A: I don't see him living in the house, let alone being alive for too much longer. They just be right.
[00:22:36] Speaker C: I mean, from Rain's baby mama.
Exactly. From Ray's perspective.
Ray would probably be happy to see him go because at this point, he doing too much and he don't listen and he keep losing Sylvie, so he's a liability.
[00:22:55] Speaker B: Well, when Kimmy. Kimmy was calling for the. For the will, and she said, I want to make sure Rain and my sister are good. She didn't even mention Angel.
[00:23:05] Speaker C: Right.
Mm. But, you know, but okay, so I feel like there would be more tension between angel and Kimmy because I feel like, you know, they're both kind of competing for Horace's number one spot.
[00:23:26] Speaker B: Cause it almost feels like angel has his own situation with Horus. Like he's not even a part of y' all equation. Like y' all came up under the. Under Kimmy and Angel got his own situation.
[00:23:37] Speaker C: Exactly. And Horace, you know, Horace likes Kimmy, or, you know, her being a smart. You know, she's smart, she's business minded and all that, but he actually likes angel. So I feel like there might be a little kitchen in There.
[00:23:54] Speaker A: Okay, we gotta let you go. But listen here. I gotta ask you this though. In the final episode, they clicked up Horace and everybody, they in the conference room, right? Everybody get their off their chest.
The feds come in, they finna lock everybody up.
This don't have nothing to do with Rain. Technically, Rain is off buying the club.
[00:24:15] Speaker C: Mm.
[00:24:16] Speaker A: Did. Did your best friend snitch?
[00:24:20] Speaker C: Um, I would say it was attorney Varney who snitched.
Mm hmm.
It was. He did all the research.
[00:24:35] Speaker A: So Attorney Varney is the snitch attorney?
[00:24:37] Speaker C: Uh huh. That's all I'm gonna say. All right, I'm gonna nominate Barney.
[00:24:42] Speaker A: Okay. For sure.
[00:24:44] Speaker C: No, you got my girl.
[00:24:45] Speaker B: No.
[00:24:46] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:24:46] Speaker B: No. I don't have nothing else. But again, I just wanted to congratulate you and thank you for your role. This character. Like I said, you slaying it. You're doing such an amazing job and I just love that you represented for us.
[00:24:57] Speaker C: Thank y' all for having me. This was so much fun. I appreciate it.
[00:25:01] Speaker A: When you come to la, come see us, please, Please.
[00:25:03] Speaker C: I was just there.
[00:25:05] Speaker A: Ah.
[00:25:06] Speaker C: Like literally, I just got back. But next time. Yes, for sure. Okay.
[00:25:10] Speaker B: At the end.
I'm not asking you to confirm this, but if season three happens at the end of season, I mean, I know
[00:25:16] Speaker C: Tyler Perry is definitely happening. Season three is definitely happening.
[00:25:20] Speaker B: Okay. I'm like, I know Tyler. Like I don't know. I don't know.
[00:25:24] Speaker C: Tyler.
[00:25:24] Speaker A: Is it happening or did it happen?
[00:25:27] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:25:29] Speaker A: All right, but come back.
[00:25:31] Speaker B: Yeah, Just pull up on us at the end of the season.
[00:25:33] Speaker A: Tell the white people to make. Make sure you come through and see us, please. We would love to have you through. You know what I'm saying? Thank you.
Amber Rain is here. It's effective immediately.
