This is Later with Lee Matthews, The Lee Matthews Podcast More What You Here
weekday afternoons on the Drive You Know with Evete Nicole Brown, from a lot
of things, Entourage, psych Curb Your Enthusiasm, My favorite was Community.
She's in a new series that's on Bounce. It's called Act Your Age and
the Vete Nicole Brown is with us. How do you do? I'm good,
Lee? How are you? This is a series that takes place and
it's among three friends in their fifties in Washington, DC. It's unusual that
we have a series that takes place in Washington, DC that's not about politics,
right right. I mean there's a little bit with my daughter. Maria
Robinson plays my daughter on this show. She's a little bit in the political
realm. And my character was the first lady of Norfolk, Virginia. So
there's a little bit of politics. But it's really a show about, you
know, three friends who are a different at a crossroads, different places in
their lives and used to live together and celebrate and support each other as they
make their way through. And are you drawing on any personal experience with this?
You know, no, thankfully, I haven't reached the age where I
have to do my Golden Girls of faith. But I have told my friends,
I said, listen, one of us has got to get the house,
and when it's time, we're gonna come together and eat some cheesecake and
take care of each other. But though it's I, you know, aside
from just you know, just having great girlfriends I adore and I am there
for them and they're there for me, the cohabitation part of it is not
in my life at all. Evette. Nicole Brown is with us. You
know. We're from that seventy show Boston legal community. You've done so many
things in your career already, Yvette. And you when you started, you
didn't even have an agent. Well, I had an agent, but I
wasn't booking, So I got dropped by that agent right when I was blessed
to get my first real role on Girlfriends. So it's something for people to
realize that when it's meant for you, it's going to happen. I sent
a postcard to Robbie Read and I didn't have anything. There was no reason
she should have brought me in, and she just said, let me take
a chance on this kid, and ended up doing two episodes on a hit
sitcom with no credit to no agents. So it's amazing what can happen when
you just take a chance. One of the things I noticed about your role
in Community is you're wonderful with your facial expressions. There really doesn't have to
be any dialogue from your character. We always know what she's thinking. Yeah,
that was one of the blessings of playing Shirley. Early in my career,
I wasn't I think I was the number four on the call sheet,
so I wasn't like one of the main stars of the show, and so
I didn't have a lot of lines in a lot of scenes, but I
was still on the screen, and so I thought, well, let me
give somebody something to look at it. They look over here to this corner,
and so I started raising my eyebrow and grunting and just doing little interesting
things that became kind of Shirley's whole character and personality. And I'm so glad
people enjoyed it. Yeah, it was always I was always laughing so much
at her. But even when you didn't say anything, you know, you
said it best when you said nothing at all and you say a lot and
event Nicole Brown and act your age on Bounce TV, also with Kim Whitely
and Tisha Campbell. And you worked with them before, haven't you. Whitley
yea, yeah, yes, I never worked with them before. Kim,
Yes, I've worked with Kim before. I had been on a show with
Tiha, but we didn't have scenes together. So this is the first time
that I get to actually work with Kim Whitley and Tisha Campbell. And they
are two legends in this industry. And I think I mentioned Mariah Robinson and
Nathan Anderson who played my daughter and kim Son respective respectively, And it's just
it's just really a friend set. Like guess the best way I can describe
it aleson files. Our creator created a runaway for us to just take off
and fly every episode, and each episode, which air Saturdays at eight pm,
one Bounce, they just get better and better and we got sixteen total
for you to enjoy this first season and Bounced. I'm glad you mentioned that
Bounce TV is where you can see at your age. You know, I've
noticed I've been to Washington DC a number of times. When you walk through
Washington, DC, you can't help but get that feeling of how much how
many important decisions are being made just steps away from you, Right, Can
you imagine like behind every building something that's happening that could change your life.
Yeah, and the life of the nation. And so uh. You know,
I don't know that the citizens of Washington, DC. Do they just
kind of go with the flow? Do they continue to feel that way or
is it? Is it something they just don't even think about? You know,
I bet because if they live there, they're just accepting that that's what
happened. You know, if you lived in a town and make Coca cola,
you would just know behind those doors they're making some delicious cola, Right,
you just accept it and keep moving. Event Nicole Brown, you know,
or from Entourage site Curb Your Enthusiasm and many more. Now she's an
act your Age which is on Bounce TV. Uh, and it's about women
who active, women who are in or the Washington, DC area. And
for you, what, how do you prepare for roles? Is there is
there a a certain is there a certain process you go through when you get
ready for a role. Yeah. I try to decide who well first,
I try to decide what she will found. Like I hope that if anyone
watches anything I've done. My characters on TV all have their own vocal padence.
I try to give them their own personality, So I try to figure
out what she sounds like first, and then after that, when you get
the wardrobe on, and in certain cases you put the hair on, you
look in the mirror and you go, Okay, well there's Angela Martin,
and you just know how to carry yourself. It's all on the page for
most of these shows. Alison Fouson, Ronado Shepherd and Sarah Jones and our
other writers are such great writers that everything you need to know about who this
woman is is already on the page, and you just show up and perform
what they've created, and event Nicole Brown brings it to life in Act Your
Age, which is Saturdays on Bounce, along with Kim Whitley and Titia Campbell
and many many others and projects you have working in the pipeline. Right now,
you sound like you never you never sleep. I just did a great
film with Rain Wilson, Amy Carrero and Little ral Howard called Code Three that's
going to be coming out. We're still filming that, and then I've got
two great shows. I want to talk about I have Shape Island on Apple
TP plus, which is for young people. It's a great show about three
shapes a square, a circle, and a triangle and how they they work
together, kind of like how we do on Act Your Age. And then
I have another great show on Netflix animated called My Dad the Bountie Hunter and
it's a it's a black family in space. So just that's all you need
to know to tune in and enjoy it. So all of that plus Act
your Age is what's happening right now for me. Well, that's yeah,
that's another thing. You do a lot of voice work. Do you enjoy
doing that more than being on camera? I don't know about more, but
I enjoyed a lot because I can do it in my pajamas. Yeah,
that's the best thing. I go in my booth and no one has to
see me and I get to create a character with just my voice. It's
wonderful and that's why I'm doing what I do with that. Nicole Brown,
We'll look forward to seeing you and Act your Age Saturdays on Bounce and we
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