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It could be a great script but the director is not the right person for me to work for at this time. So there are a lot of elements that come into play and a lot of variables, but more than anything it’s got to be a great script and a great character.

Blair Underwood

Krush Groove was a movie at the time. That was my first break. I just got to New York. I was right out of college and I was happy to have a job.
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College Country Jobs Movie Time
The voice over is a hat you put on right now as opposed to worrying about going through wardrobe, and having to look a certain way.
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Opposed Talking Voice Wardrobe Worry
I’ll tell you what 20 years teaches you – is that if one thing doesn’t last something else will come down the pipe and to go from that and to do these films now.
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Film Lasts Something Teaches Years
We’re shooting for this Fall and that’s been a six year development right there.
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Development Fall Shooting Six
Our deal always was that we did one as scripted always, we got it like we thought we needed – so we were all happy with it as written. Then I’d let him play as long as we had time.
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Deal Long Play Scripted
My Soul to Keep is the ultimate love story with a black man and a black woman. I call it the ultimate love story. It’s about an immortal.
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Fall Men Years
Two packed houses. I guess the theater sat 2,700 people every night so it was an amazing experience.
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Night People Two
It’s a music video but she was real specific on the character that Mary J. Blige was playing, and that I was playing in this video and I told her whenever you get to jump to the big screen I’d love to come with you and she honored that.
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Character Honored Real Video
Now it’s a fully realized production but for the fact that we’re holding our scripts in our hand and some of us used them, and some of us didn’t and you have to by union rules hold the script. You don’t have to use them but you gotta hold them.
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Hands Script Union Use
The hope is they would like to bring it to Broadway next year, so we’ll see that’s to come in the end of the finance year and everybody else and also real estate and what theaters are available at the time but I would like to come back with it.
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Broadway Estate Finance Real Years
I won’t go into detail but this animated one, the story line is very cool and the kids seem to love it.
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Children Details Kids
I get to work and enjoy that part of me, but then I have time to have a life and be with my kids.
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Enjoy Kids Life Work
I haven’t done a lot of things in my career that my kids can watch, because they are 8, 6 and 3, and they are pretty young; so given the concepts that the film was about a superhero, it was a black superhero, and it was a father and son type partnership.
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Father Kids Partnership Son Superhero
In terms of the black female audience, usually if you’re true to that character but more so in your body of work if you’ve proven that you love your sisters and you proven you will come back home like in 42.4% they’ll give you a pass when you jump ship. I hear it all the time.
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Character Home Lovemterms
Its really a luck of the draw or fate or destiny, whatever you want to call it, but you dont know if youre going to resonate with people or not.
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Call Destiny Fate People
You just got to let your voice do the talking for you.
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Just Talking Voice

It could be a great script but the director is not the right person for me to work for at this time. So there are a lot of elements that come into play and a lot of variables, but more than anything it’s got to be a great script and a great character.

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It could be a great script but the director is not the right person for me to work for at this time. So there are a lot of elements that come into play and a lot of variables, but more than anything it’s got to be a great script and a great character.

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