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00:00 - What is Mixed?
00:01 - We need to know.
00:02 - Is it What Kills Me?
00:03 - Mixed-ish is about a family that moved
00:06 from the commune to the cul-de-sac.
00:08 - Nothing you ever say about your childhood makes sense.
00:11 You grew up in a cult.
00:14 - It's basically a show about how Bo became Bo.
00:16 You're introduced to her family,
00:17 a deep dive into who she is
00:19 and how she became who she is now.
00:21 - Just because we're in a new home,
00:23 we're not gonna let that change who we are.
00:25 We're definitely not gonna let this idiot box
00:28 contaminate us with the worst of America, CBS.
00:31 - She's optimistic and she wants everyone
00:34 to get along with one another,
00:35 but she's also lost because she hasn't found herself yet.
00:39 - It's all about the toughness that they went through
00:42 when they were mixed in a black and white world
00:45 where nobody knew that this was really even a thing yet.
00:49 - I play a hippie who's been on a commune
00:51 for the last 15 years.
00:52 He's still stuck in the '70s
00:53 while everyone else is sort of evolving into the '80s,
00:56 so it's kind of fun to play that character.
00:57 - Anyone can grill meat,
00:59 but to cook a medium rare mushroom, that's talent.
01:03 - Aunt Denise is a no holds barred truth teller.
01:06 - No, you please tell me
01:07 you didn't send these babies to school looking like this.
01:10 - What's wrong with how we look?
01:11 - You look like a runaway house slave.
01:13 - No.
01:14 - Black culture and the black community
01:16 is where she feels most at home.
01:17 She's not anti anyone else, she's just pro her.
01:20 - They're black and white,
01:21 don't try to make them choose sides.
01:24 - America already chose.
01:25 - Harrison is, well he's a lawyer, that should tell you a lot
01:29 and he's not the good kind.
01:31 Are there any?
01:32 Maybe, we don't know.
01:33 He tends to be on the party side of things.
01:37 - This is why I don't do cocaine.
01:38 I am cocaine.
01:40 I do cocaine.
01:42 - He basically in the show represents, you know, ignorance.
01:46 - Well, I gotta make the rules,
01:47 but yacht clubs are for people
01:48 who came here on the top of a ship.
01:51 - Everybody is trying to figure out who they are,
01:53 where they fit in in this world with identity,
01:55 especially coming from a commune where they were
01:57 for 15 years being thrown back into the real world
02:00 and having to face reality.
02:02 - What it does is allow this family to have so many firsts.
02:05 So it's not like they're like the family
02:07 from another planet, but in a lot of ways,
02:09 we can look at things in a fresh way
02:12 while they experience it for the first time.
02:15 - The biracial family, I don't think it had ever been told
02:18 on network television before,
02:20 and so we saw this as an opportunity.
02:21 - Unlike "Black-ish," we're gonna hit on some tough subjects
02:25 for some people, and for other people,
02:27 I think when they see an episode,
02:29 they're gonna breathe a sigh of relief,
02:31 and they're gonna say,
02:31 "I'm so glad they finally talked about it."
02:33 - Today's mixed kids can look up to rappers,
02:36 ballerinas, athletes, a president, and a princess.
02:40 The only heroes we had were DeBarge.
02:42 - I hope when audiences watch the show,
02:44 they see that, you know, no matter what you look like,
02:47 no matter who you are, your identity is unique,
02:50 and it matters to the world.
02:51 - You'll find a way, and we all will.
02:53 (upbeat music)
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