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00:00 (upbeat music)
00:01 I'm Cynthia Arriva and welcome to my cover shoot.
00:04 Whatever happens to me throughout the day
00:15 or whatever I choose to do first
00:17 comes from a decision I make.
00:19 The food that I put in my body
00:21 to the clothes that I put on my back,
00:23 to the way that I get ready in the morning,
00:25 to the way that I groom myself,
00:27 all of those things are things that make me feel
00:32 the most present, the most in tune with my body
00:35 and who I am and those things then help me feel
00:38 really powerful throughout the day.
00:40 I'm very, very in tune with my mind, my body
00:46 and what I might need at any given time.
00:50 I just try to make sure that I implement small things
00:53 that keep me going and that take care of myself.
00:55 And then obviously there are the big things
00:57 where you take yourself away for a weekend
00:59 or you give yourself a really lovely luxurious bath
01:02 or those things are really important and they do help
01:05 but I think it's a holistic thing
01:07 that you can implement every single day
01:09 and you don't have to wait till the end of the week.
01:11 Every day is my day, Sunday is not my day, every day is.
01:14 And I try to make sure that that's how I live
01:17 and that's how I get to enjoy the work I do as well.
01:20 I think the way I've harnessed power
01:25 is to really be clear on what I want for myself
01:30 and to be unafraid of speaking that.
01:34 I am not afraid to say no,
01:36 which I think is a really powerful thing.
01:38 I'm also not afraid to say yes,
01:39 which is also a really powerful thing.
01:42 I don't care what anyone thinks
01:44 about what I look like at all really.
01:47 And what I put on my body or what I wear,
01:50 jewelry or whatever, is really for me
01:54 because it makes me feel good.
01:55 And in turn, if I feel good,
01:57 I know that it'll probably make other people feel good too.
01:59 So I'm just enjoying all the pieces of me right now.
02:03 Once you get to sort of the ownership of who you are
02:05 and the ownership of what you are,
02:08 no one really can take that from you.
02:10 It's a song by an artist called Kat Burns.
02:17 I think it's called "We're Not Kids Anymore."
02:18 ♪ Because we're not kids anymore ♪
02:21 ♪ Anymore, anymore, anymore ♪
02:24 ♪ Anymore, anymore ♪
02:29 ♪ We're not kids anymore ♪
02:36 As an actor, the first thing I try to do
02:40 with whatever character I'm playing
02:42 is find out what the vulnerability is
02:44 and find out what they want the most.
02:46 So as a runner, what you have to decide that day
02:49 before you step out onto the street is what do you want?
02:51 And what are your vulnerabilities that day?
02:54 Are your ankles weak?
02:55 Do you want to feel motivated?
02:57 Those are the things that I've learned from Aida
02:59 to choose what I want from it
03:01 and choose what the vulnerability is.
03:03 Running is a really wonderful way for me
03:08 not just to physically feel good,
03:10 but to sort of meditate
03:12 and to process whatever I happen to be going through
03:16 or to celebrate, really.
03:19 There are days when I feel amazing when I'm running
03:21 and it's just sort of another space
03:24 that I can give myself to be with myself.
03:27 I kind of live for them, to be honest.
03:32 I'm a very physical person
03:34 and they let me do my own stance.
03:37 There's something really thrilling about it.
03:38 Those running sequences were in the middle of the night
03:40 in the Piccadilly Circus
03:41 and the fight sequence was in a freezing cold bunker.
03:45 There's rain coming down and stuff.
03:46 It was a lot of fun to do
03:48 and I would do it again in a heartbeat, to be honest.
03:51 Maybe I'm a glutton for punishment, I don't know.
03:53 She's just different.
03:56 She's got this sort of quiet, still,
04:00 you can call it power, you can call it determination.
04:02 She's just this mixed bag of different, complex emotions
04:07 and wants and needs.
04:09 I enjoy those characters
04:12 that are not what they are on the surface.
04:18 The day that Prince passed away,
04:21 we were asked to sing "Purple Rain."
04:23 We had picked the key
04:24 and in my head the key was perfectly fine,
04:26 but when we started, the key was too low.
04:29 I sang the first line the octave below
04:31 and realized really quickly it was wrong
04:34 and then made a split-second decision
04:35 to take it up the octave
04:37 and for some reason that sort of resonated with the audience.
04:41 ♪ Purple, purple rain ♪
04:44 ♪ Purple rain, purple rain ♪
04:48 And you could feel sort of the audience sort of come alive,
04:50 which felt really wonderful.
04:52 We have a cast of people who are really, really special.
04:59 Ariana, Michelle, Jeff.
05:03 We're in the thick of it right now
05:04 and every day has brought a bit of joy.
05:07 It's a place that I really enjoy being.
05:09 I like getting up in the morning
05:10 and getting ready to go to work
05:11 and those things are very rare to come across,
05:14 the jobs that you don't mind getting up that early
05:17 and don't mind going to bed that late for.
05:19 - What is a song that people would be surprised
05:22 to hear you sing?
05:23 ♪ Till now, always got by on my own ♪
05:30 ♪ I never really cared until I met you ♪
05:35 ♪ And now it chills me to the bone ♪
05:38 ♪ How do I get you alone ♪
05:42 - Power ballads.
05:44 (audience applauding)
05:46 I have been Cynthia Erivo.
05:48 This has been my cover story and thank you for watching.
05:50 [BLANK_AUDIO]