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But in reality, Unions been flexing her vulnerability.
I took joy in peoples pain and I tap-danced on their misery, said Union.
Its easy to pretend to be fierce and fearless because living your truth takes real courage.
Yet, shes dedicated to love.
But truth-telling margarita in her hand or not, Unions seizing opportunities to get real.
InBreaking In, youve got your plain T-shirt on.
Your loved ones are hostages of money-grubbing crooks.
This is your Bruce Willis inDie Hard.Im glad you noticed the shoeless thing.
I lost that battle.
I was like, In the black community we dontdobarefoot outside.
We really dont do barefoot inside, its just not a thing in our community.
And they were like, No, no!
She got home, she took off her shoes.
Butnooooo, we just dont do that.
The audience is gonna be like, Ewwwwww.
It cant distract people.
We cant do a whole movie with this because people will be like, shesstillbarefoot!
Which was not my favorite part.
Did you really skid down a hill barefoot?I didnt.
Does that count as CrossFit?Is CrossFit where you do the thing on the tire?
I was like, Oh, were gonnadothis shit?
Oh, okay, yes, this is awesome.
I thought we were going to be more supervising.
We dont ever get to work together, me and my husband, so we just had a blast.
Not that Im a brawler in my past life.
Just very primal, very animalistic.
I have a lot of pent-up anger, so it was perfect it was perfect.
Youve been getting more interested in executive producing, now producing.
Why this story?This is actually me and Wills third project.
He gets what Im thinking, we have an easy shorthand.
He was like, I think I have the right script.
I was like, Is there a dude that saves the day?
He said, No, you save yourself.
And I said, You had me at hello.
Thats really what appealed to me.
And then I obviously wanted to produce it to double-check that nobody showed up at the end.
[Mimes paging through a screenplay.
]Wait … wait … a husband comes!?
Oh, he gets his ass kicked and she still gets to save the day great.
I explained that women live in fear of sexual violence every day.
But just reminding people this is what women live with every day.
Its just one of those shitty, sucky things that people dont think about.
Nobody invades my personal space or demeans me or says something sexist.
I hope todays the day that I find out I actuallydomake half of what the guy I trained makes.
These are all real sorts of larger issues that we deal with on the daily.
Also, we have to be superheroes for our families and ourselves every day.
Very rarely does somebody on a white horse, or a cape, show up to save the day.
We have to figure it the fuck out and we do.
But we have to still be excellent and hope that one day somebody notices.
And for moms, we make moms the most sexless, powerless, mute group.
Somebody has to come save mom and the kids!
Nah, not today.
Mom and the kids are gonna save themselves, because thats how strong we are everyday.
I dont know why that doesnt translate onto screen, that were actually quite capable.
I love that in the movie, the bad guy is constantly like, Shes just a mom.
Shes just a woman.
How do your parenting styles overlap?I think Shaun is much more traditional.
We dont do bickering in the carat all.
That would have been shut down in a different tone.
We also dont do narcing on each other.
If hes going to get in trouble, let him get in trouble because he screwed up.
But not because you told us.
You guys have to learn that youre family you gotta stick together.
And if he took out the golf cart without permission, we better figure it out on our own.
Sometimes we parent after sangria and were like, Did that even make sense?
I dont know if we even answered his question?
We figure it out.
Its a lot of trial and error.
My husband now is on his third wine, his fourth wine.
Last summer, I was very much on frose.
I didnt even know that was a thing!
and theyre like, [whispers] Its frozen rose.
Well, I ordered some and thank god now I know what the hell is coming!
Normally, Im just like, Tequila rocks and dont cut it with anything.
But this is a spicy skinny margarita with a little agave, jalapeno.
Have you ever tried rose gumdrops?Wait what is that?
Like a rose gummy bear?Like an edible?
Like a rose edible?
Yeah, but not like a weed thing.But its like an alcohol?
I dont get out enough what the fuck.
Where do they sell these?
Probably why I havent searched.
When did you have time to write your book?
And then we had to rewrite it and put it in book form.
Did you know that Judy Blume also lives in Florida?No!
Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself!Thats my childhood.
I was so impressed by your 2013 speech atEssences Fierce & Fabulous awards.
Youre facing all these people and admitting about how competitive you were with them when you were younger.
What was it like up there at the microphone before you opened your mouth?Oh fuck!
And Im going to just be honest and hope that it is received.
We dont have to speak in weird fucking cliches all the time.
Theres been days Im a rotten apple with a worm sticking out.
And we can evolve.
We can do better.
Lets call a thing a thing, lets acknowledge it, lets make amends, and do better.
She was on the roster.
Shes good for it!
Jessicas preteen and teen IMDb was playing the troubled teen when shes a boss chick.
Later in life, we always met up at the bar.
Theres those people who youre always like,Whos at this bar; whos at this party?
We always found ourselves hanging out together having the same reactions to what was happening in the room.
Because I think having two women of color executive-produce and star in this show could be kinda fucking dope.
Are you ever thinking about getting into politics?No.
I am definitely working with grassroots organizations to flip districts.
I played a woman who has her heart ripped out just because she fell in love with a guy.
She just stayed out of love and allowed herself to be trampled on.
A woman forever lives Michelle Obamas, When they go low, we stay high.
I hate the high road, personally I like a fast pass on the low road!
