
First off, I just wanted to say congratulations on Envy: A Seven Deadly Sins Story. I know this is one of your first big leading roles, so I just wondered what it was like taking on a bit more responsibility as the lead?
Yeah, thank you, such a great question. It was interesting. I was super nervous, it was my first time leading a film. I was just more focused on telling the story as true and authentically as I could, and taking my mind away from "I'm number one on the call sheet." It was really, really cool though, because the cast was so dope. I felt like we all set the tone for the vibe on set and it was teamwork. We were trying to get through each of the scenes as best as we could, but it was super dope. I mean, for me stepping out of Empire and getting into this and leading this film, it was really amazing that I got to just kind of show more of my acting side, if you will, and get more into character.
Your character in Envy, Keisha, definitely keeps the audience guessing throughout the film. You're such a positive person. What was it like playing someone with a bit of a darker side?
There were two main days that they kind of compiled a lot of the heavy emotional scenes, and those days were so exhausting. But you know what? I can say that it just made me... It was almost therapeutic for me because I had so much empathy for Keisha and what she went through. I know that her actions showed to be super conniving and obviously envious, but they came from a real place. I think me getting in that mind frame and in kind of connecting the dots with my own personal things in my own life, it allowed me to just have... Just some empathy for her, honestly, and so playing her was almost therapeutic, some of those scenes, honestly. The jail scene was super heavy for me, and I worked through a lot doing that scene.
Did you listen to any sad music or anything to gear up for that?
Yeah, I was definitely, before we shot [a] ... couple of those scenes, I was kind of off to the side to myself. I had my earphones in, a certain playlist, things that I had targeted for the scene for me to get there in a moment. Which is kind of tough, depending on what the scene calls for, but it works, and I'm glad that I had some authenticity with those scenes, for sure.
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