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You just got to let your voice do the talking for you.

Blair Underwood

I love my kids so much. They teach me something every day. It always brings richness to my work, and even more in life. I feel lucky to be able to do both.
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Able Feel Kids Lucky
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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Character Director Play
I said they might not even like it, and say his daddy’s movie is wack, but they loved it.
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Daddy Even might Movie
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
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
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
We’re shooting for this Fall and that’s been a six year development right there.
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Development Fall Shooting Six
You just got to let your voice do the talking for you.
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Just Talking Voice
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
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
That is the thing I’m most grateful for in this industry to be able to spin in those different mediums, with television, film and the stage – at this stage of the game.
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Different Games Grateful
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
It’s about strengthening the relationship and the bond of parent to child.
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Children Relationships Ties
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
It’s just different discipline, just doing the voice over. I guess I’ve done about 5 or 6 audio books in the past and I do the animated voice for a show called Fatherhood on Nickelodeon.
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Animated Book Past Voice
Sex in the City was a different kind of phenomenon because of the show itself is a phenomenon and to me that’s successful because to resonate with women across the board for six years and have only one African-American actor pass through for one episode.
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Episode Sex Six Successful Women Year
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
I tell you one of the great things about this movie is, with all that’s going on around the world right now, it’s just good to go to a movie where you don’t have to think too hard, just have a good time, and relax and be crazy.
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Crazy Relax Thinking Time
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
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
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
My son had his eighth birthday recently and we had a chance to borrow the film and show it to all of his friends that was at his birthday party and they loved it. I was a little nervous.
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Birthday Party Son
It’s something that was very interesting to me to be a part of and all of them again because of the relationship. Some of the superhero movies are better than others.
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Interesting Movie Relationship Superhero
To be still standing 20 years in this business is a great feeling, I can’t even tell you.
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Business Feelings Years
All you can do is do the best you can and I did that. I had a great time. I made a product and I was not embarrassed by it at all so you do it and you move on.
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Embarrassed Made Moving
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
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

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