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- Hey everybody, this is Felicia D. Henderson.
Thank you for joining us for another episode of
Office Hours: After the Quad.
This episode was written by Wendy Coolis.
It is entitled March: Book One.
We borrowed that title from the original graphic novel
from the 60s that took a look at the civil rights movement
through the first hand accounts of John Lewis.
So we feel honored to borrow that title.
As you know, every week I'm repping a different HBCU.
I am this week repping Spelman
because I love this cardigan.
But there was also a sweatshirt I loved from Spelman
so you'll see me repping Spelman twice.
Plus I have a lot of good girlfriends
who graduated from there, so I'm happy to do so.
On tonight's episode I'm being joined by
Jazz Raycole and Michelle Defraites
who will talk about their love and friendship for each other
on and off screen.
Episode 206, March: Book One.
The title obviously taken from
John Lewis' comic book of the same name.
It's an amazing episode.
I think that it is the point in the season,
you know we're halfway through,
where absolutely the students are becoming activists.
And we were trying to like, excuse the pun,
march our way toward that so it didn't become like
episode one, it's like and now they're activists.
- Right. - Yeah.
- So we took our time
until we got there to the middle of the season.
And now they have taken themselves to Atlanta State
to let people know how they feel.
When I see those dailies, when I first saw them
I'm like, ooh I didn't mean to be that real,
like it was a little bit frightening.
How did it feel to be there being the ones doing it?
- Good.
- I mean, it was definitely surreal, in a sense,
because you see it on TV.
You see it everywhere.
You know it's happening around you
but to be forced to do it.
- Yes.
- That's really crazy.
And to be forced to watch other people have to do it
and just, you know you're acting
but part of you just wants to be like, ugh.
You just get really worked up about it.
- Have you ever been involved in anything like that before?
- Uh-uh, honestly no. - Mm-hmm.
- On either side.
- Yeah.
- And so just seeing it happen in front of your face,
it's just like, wow.
- Get back to where you belong.
- I belong right here.
Get off me.
- Come on.
It's heavy.
- I've never really understood the magnitude of a riot
until that day and what activism really means.
Like what that entails.
Like really fighting for everything that you believe in.
Because during that scene we're going to blood,
to blows, like we're going in.
I don't know, it shifted my perception of just like,
even the Black Lives Matter movement.
My mom, you know, lived through the 60s and the 70s
and she talks to me about Black Panthers
cause you know she was from Stockton
and Oakland's right there,
and she's talked to me about all that stuff.
But to actually be in that position,
and granted we're just acting,
but when you start doing the character development
of how this person feels
it was completely different being in that moment.
- Mm- hmm.
- And it was tense. It was heavy,
because I think we all wanted to respect each other
and make sure that the respect was known.
Like this is just a scene.
- Right. - Yeah.
- You know what I mean?
We all wanted to make sure everybody was okay and felt safe.
It was interesting.
- That must have been challenging
because you guys are so respectful to each other always,
I find, and yet the moment is feeling so real, you know.
- Yeah.
- So it's like trying to keep that
but this thing is taking over as well.
- And it was three days.
- Yeah.
- It was three days of like, long days.
And you're in it and you're just like,
how do people, like the real activists of the world,
how do they have the stamina and the passion
and the strength to sustain that?
- [Crowd] HBCU's back, back, back. HBCU.
- I'll let the audience in on a little bit of that
back during the days of the pilot.
It feels like so long ago.
(laughs)
- So long ago.
- For real.
- There were a bunch of girls who came in,
young women, for Sydney.
A bunch of young women who came in for Madison
and we find, we like those four or five
possibilities, actresses for Sydney
and these four or five possibilities for Madison,
but what if they don't have any chemistry?
So then we start playing this game as producers
and then the network gets invited into it to
of mix and match.
Let's put these two together.
Well maybe those two would be together.
Now what I'm learning today for the first time
is that even in the hallway while you were waiting your turn
you were doing some mixing and matching of your own.
- [Michelle] Absolutely. - [Jazz] For sure
(laughs)
- [Michelle] But I mean, I've been an actor for a long time
and that's just what you do.
- It's a chemistry thing,
and I think since we have a real friendship
you see a lot of that on the show.
You see a lot of that shifts over.
And we don't have the same issues and problems
that Sydney and Madison have.
We have our own stuff that we have to deal with
and I think it's kind of transferring that
and just kind of substituting this for that.
But at the end of the day, just like our friendship
just like Sydney and Madison, there's a mutual respect.
- Cause you know if you like them
the scene's just gonna be better.
- We worked on our stuff,
we went through and was like okay how about this.
- We were tossing ideas back and forth.
- Yeah we're going back and forth
and like what about this one?
Okay what if you do this?
Okay I like that, yeah let's try this.
- Oh that's so cool.
- Yeah.
- So we really went back and forth.
- And there was no one else that really did that with me.
- No.
- And I read with other people,
like in the hallway practicing,
but we were the only ones that were kind of collaborative.
- Mm-hmm.
- And then we put you guys together
and we got to see all of that not knowing all of that.
(laughs)
- That's the crazy part.
We just did your work for you.
(laughs)
- Oh, and by the way you're welcome.
- Right.
- We're here.
- We're here, the work is done.
- I loved it.
- It's almost like you were watching our lives
because you almost got it so perfectly
on what we're going through.
- Yeah.
- We're kinda getting to show that through our characters.
- You're on Office Hours.
(laughs)
- You're on office hours.
- Thank you guys very much for your time.
I really really appreciate both of you
and I hope you continue to have a good time
for the rest of the season
cause we got some stuff you don't know yet.
- Oohhh.
(laughs)
- We can't wait.
(laughs)
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