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00:00Carrie, what drew you to this project?
00:02Was there like a personal emotional connection
00:04that made you resonate with it on a deeper level?
00:06Like just sort of what, you know, what drew you to it?
00:09How could you not resonate with this story
00:12on a deeper level, right?
00:13Like these women were such heroes.
00:16They are such heroes.
00:18They are, I mean, I can't imagine hearing this story
00:22and not wanting to be a part of this project
00:25because it felt less like a job
00:28and more like an assignment, like a gift,
00:30like an honor, a privilege.
00:33I didn't know about the 6888 growing up.
00:36Neither of us learned about the 6888 in school.
00:38But imagine if we had.
00:39Imagine if we had.
00:40Imagine how much braver we would be today.
00:41Sorry, I say that.
00:42I think about that.
00:43No, I do think about that with my daughters.
00:44Like I'm so grateful that my daughters
00:46are getting to live in a world where they know this story
00:49from a much younger age.
00:50And I think about the impact that that has on them
00:53to understand, you know, when Tyler Perry showed the film
00:57to Miss Lena Derricott King,
00:58who Ebony plays so brilliantly in the film,
01:01he showed the film to her and she like cried and she laughed
01:05and she was saluting the iPad.
01:07But she also, she said,
01:08I wanna thank you for letting the world know
01:11that black women contributed.
01:13And that's just such an important thing for us to know,
01:16for our daughters to know,
01:17for our mothers to be celebrated for.
01:19We have contributed.
01:22We've been contributing.
01:23We continue to contribute.
01:24We continue to over-index in how we show up for this country
01:29despite how this country does or does not show up for us.
01:32And so I'm just really grateful to be part of a story
01:35that really lifts up these heroes,
01:38these examples of service.