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Angela Bassett will forever be regal look at her cheekbones!
but these days shes getting a little bored with playing nobility.
There was a lot of comedy in the real-life situation of it, of searching for your autonomy.
Thats what got me.
I literally laughed out loud while reading it.
It was the flipside!
One time literally I called her, saying,Helllloooo!Is there anything special about today?
Anything that you remember happening 23 years ago?
Something that may have been painful?
Shed say, Oh, happy birthday sweetheart!
[Laughs] As a mother, having gone through that, how could you ever forget?
Ive never forgotten my moms birthday.
As a matter of fact, if she was still here, her birthday wouldve been August 3.
Oh, a Leo!
I only know that because Im a Leo, too my birthday is the 9th.And Im the 16th!
I think we probably had some characteristics that are similar: strong-willed, independent.
She had high standards.
She was very adamant on doing things the right way, the proper way.
Get your education, that was her main thing.
You are going to college.
She knew how, as a single mother, how difficult the journey had been.
She didnt want that for us.
I think that was part and parcel why she was so strong and stringent with us.
Something that struck me aboutOtherhoodis that youre playing mothers of sons.
I have twins, and if I told her brother something like, Slater, put that down.
Slater, dont stand on that.Slater she would be my little copy.
Slater dont stand on that!
She was my little copycat!
One time I literally had to say, when she was 3, Bronwyn,Imthe mom.
I think girls get you.
Youre on the same page a little bit.
Theyre so loving and attentive, wanting to do the right thing.
Slater would just run off and meet people.
Girls stay a little bit close and observant.
Boys are just jumping out there, like, Lets see what happens.
Youre a pretty cool mom, though.
Im very jealous.I attempt to be.
I give a shot to be cool in their eyes.
This experience is about you.
So lead with whoyouare, not with who your mom and your dad are.
You know, theyre meeting new kids, and he specifically had to say that to my son.
My daughter was like, Got it!
Shes not going to do that.
Shes going to get in there and meet you on an equal playing field.
My son might say, Well, you know,mymom was inBlack Panther!
I didnt get to take it home.
Im sure its in a warehouse somewhere.
What was the most fun about shootingOtherhood?
I love that its just a movie about these three women just hanging out in New York together.Oh!
Justthat, you know?
Just getting to run around New York City and its landmarks.
Im here now and one of them, I realized, is closed.
I took a picture of it.
That Two Boots Pizza in Greenwich Village is closed now.
Whats your pizza order?My pizza order?
You look so great in this movie, so sexy, so confident.
Whats your secret?I dont know if there is a secret.
That confidence, thats what she taught me.
