Tessa Thompson

But, you know, I had a similar thing just sitting across from you, because when I played Sam in Dear White People and got to play someone that worked in

in a radio station.

I still, every time I do a podcast or I'm in a radio station, I have like a rush of that feeling again because I just loved doing it.

I just so enjoyed doing it.

Sometimes when I play parts, this isn't always the case, but sometimes it feels like I get a sense of a window of like another trajectory I might have taken were I not an actor.

You know, sometimes I find things that I go, God, I probably would have really loved to do this thing.

And

And doing what you do is one of those things I thought when I was working on it.

Goodness, I really like this.

Richard Jones, married to rising star Lexi Jones.

What's that like?

Exciting.

Lonely.

Right.

Friends tell you it must be exciting to have a celebrity wife or what passes for a celebrity in Atlanta, but it's not, is it?

People recognize her in the grocery store, asking to take their photo.

Next to her, you're invisible.

She leaves at 2 for the 4 and the 6, and she stays for the 11.

And there's meetings after, so she doesn't get home until after 1.

You're already asleep, so goodbye, sex.