Gabrielle Union

It was awesome. Thank you, guys. Yeah, right? You're good.

So many. Get away with it. So many. Well, not to get away with it, but yeah. Almost. Almost. So close. Spoiler alert.

I mean, no, I and I, I was, you know, a little intimidated initially. I think it was the third person to sign on. It was Jennifer, who's, you know, the star and the icon, who's also the executive producer. And then it was Ed Harris. And they're like, you would be Ed Harris's, you know, love interest. I said, well. A few good. It's all the right stuff. Yeah, yes please. That's all it took.

That's all it really, it really is all it took.

Yes, the vast majority of the movie was in one location, which was the house that you see in the film, which is a little smaller than it appears. So yeah, we had a lot of challenges, like heat.

It's not a bad cast. But, you know, when you bring animals to work, generally most people are like, does anyone have allergies? And that didn't happen. There were animals brought to set? Someone brought their dog, right, to set. Except one of our cast members, whose main name was Pete, he He is terribly allergic to dogs. Oh, God. And, you know, it starts with a... You know, when the... Oh.

And then we're watching him turn into Hitch. And I was like, this is awful. This is awful. Or like people, you know, they think that they're, you know, far enough away from where we're filming that they can eat Doritos. And, you know, you are delivering. You're like, and this is my Oscar winning performance. And it's like crunch, crunch, crunch. We didn't get that. We didn't get that. Oh my God.

Can we show a picture? Incredibly successful? I don't, let's see. Yep. Look at that. I mean, Naomi Campbell was clearly shaking in her boots.

Sure.

I think it was like $120 a day. And I was like, oh, I'm rich. And then you pay 20% and the taxes and the whatnot. And I was like, so I have $6 today. But you would do those like industrials. Yes. Where they're like, wear this headset, right? For a hundred and whatever a day. And then later when I, you know, started, you know, getting a little bigger in Hollywood. Oh, they brought that.

They brought it out because it's cheap, cheap photos. And now I'm the lady in the OnStar, you know, thing. When you buy your car and it's like, hello, I'm with OnStar and it's me with the damn headset on. Oh my God. Like I'm like promoting this, but it was just, you know, back when we're broke.

No, please flex. Flex on me.

Please, let's see this.

No, it's the double. I did the double loop. It's the double. It's like the sunglass. I used to do Montgomery Wards, all the biggest department stores, for their big Memorial Day weekend double spread. And I... Yeah. Oh, yeah. You know that, oh, just so organic.

I mean, when you move beyond representation, representation is step one when there's a billion steps. I don't want a seat at a crappy table. That just means I'm covered in crap. I want real, the power to actually elicit change. You know what I mean? And that doesn't come with... Step one, like you have to actually be uncomfortable.

So when I, you know, started producing and I and I was putting together projects, you know, and, you know, when the rubber hits the road, they're like, well, are you willing to give up money to make sure such and such is paid? I was like, yeah, I am. You have to be willing to do the right thing even if it makes you uncomfortable or even if it doesn't actively benefit you.

Because real equality and real liberation is what benefits all of us. And you have to be committed to it.

So we were in the hair and makeup trailer and it was me and LL Cool J. They are familiar. And I, you know, I'm very Scorpio and I like to argue and I like to be right more than anything. And people are like, do you want to be right? Or do you want, you know, do you want love? And I was like, to be right. I feel loved if I'm right.

So we were having a little argument back and forth, but the time is a ticking, right? And you're thinking, this is the most important thing, right? End of the day, I've sort of forgotten about the little debate that we were having. And I overhear one of the crew guys say, well, now I'm not going to make it to my daughter's, you know, event.

And you start to realize no one person is bigger than anyone else. It takes every single one of us to make this. And all of our time is important. And when you start thinking that your time is more important than someone else's, you've lost the plot.

And so I vowed that if I ever, you know, became a producer, that I would make sure that everyone's time was respected and everyone understood that no one person is more important than anyone else.

No, absolutely. But you have to be willing to like, you know, there was a gig and studio that shall remain nameless. They didn't want to give this woman who has been nominated for Oscars, multiple, an executive producer credit, which she deserved. We all worked on this project and they were like, This is good enough for her. And I said, well, it's not good enough for me. I'll give up mine.

I don't have what she has. I'm not bringing the same gravitas to this project. And you have to be able to take a stand. And if that means giving up some of your salary or giving up some of your producer fee or just making sure that people are getting paid or they like the food, that is part of our responsibility. I do believe I am my brother and sister's keeper. We all have to have that mentality.

It's scary. And I am in awe constantly of her bravery. But, you know, I'm like, you know, like I'm pumped, you know, in the same way that we would cheer for, you know, our son Zaire's first dunk. I was like, get him. The way she stands up for herself and the way she fights just as hard as as as anyone else whose liberty, whose very existence, whose very humanity is at risk.

She puts it all on the line. She has 10 toes down. And she doesn't back off for anybody. It doesn't matter if you hold the highest seat in our country or you're Elon Musk. Or maybe those are interchangeable. She is about not only her liberation, but everyone's liberation. Because when you start to barter with whole communities, And you let them in the door. They're in the house.

They're coming for everybody. Did no one watch Handmaid's Tale? That's right. It's coming. So you have to fight. And she's a fighter. And so I'm proud. I raised fighters. And I'm happy about that. Well, she has.