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This is Later with Lee Matthews,
The Lee Matthews Podcast More What You Here

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weekday afternoons on the Drive You Know
with Evete Nicole Brown, from a lot

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of things, Entourage, psych Curb
Your Enthusiasm, My favorite was Community.

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She's in a new series that's on
Bounce. It's called Act Your Age and

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the Vete Nicole Brown is with us. How do you do? I'm good,

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Lee? How are you? This
is a series that takes place and

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it's among three friends in their fifties
in Washington, DC. It's unusual that

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we have a series that takes place
in Washington, DC that's not about politics,

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right right. I mean there's a
little bit with my daughter. Maria

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Robinson plays my daughter on this show. She's a little bit in the political

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realm. And my character was the
first lady of Norfolk, Virginia. So

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there's a little bit of politics.
But it's really a show about, you

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know, three friends who are a
different at a crossroads, different places in

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their lives and used to live together
and celebrate and support each other as they

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make their way through. And are
you drawing on any personal experience with this?

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You know, no, thankfully,
I haven't reached the age where I

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have to do my Golden Girls of
faith. But I have told my friends,

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I said, listen, one of
us has got to get the house,

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and when it's time, we're gonna
come together and eat some cheesecake and

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take care of each other. But
though it's I, you know, aside

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from just you know, just having
great girlfriends I adore and I am there

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for them and they're there for me, the cohabitation part of it is not

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in my life at all. Evette. Nicole Brown is with us. You

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know. We're from that seventy show
Boston legal community. You've done so many

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things in your career already, Yvette. And you when you started, you

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didn't even have an agent. Well, I had an agent, but I

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wasn't booking, So I got dropped
by that agent right when I was blessed

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to get my first real role on
Girlfriends. So it's something for people to

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realize that when it's meant for you, it's going to happen. I sent

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a postcard to Robbie Read and I
didn't have anything. There was no reason

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she should have brought me in,
and she just said, let me take

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a chance on this kid, and
ended up doing two episodes on a hit

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sitcom with no credit to no agents. So it's amazing what can happen when

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you just take a chance. One
of the things I noticed about your role

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in Community is you're wonderful with your
facial expressions. There really doesn't have to

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be any dialogue from your character.
We always know what she's thinking. Yeah,

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that was one of the blessings of
playing Shirley. Early in my career,

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I wasn't I think I was the
number four on the call sheet,

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so I wasn't like one of the
main stars of the show, and so

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I didn't have a lot of lines
in a lot of scenes, but I

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was still on the screen, and
so I thought, well, let me

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give somebody something to look at it. They look over here to this corner,

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and so I started raising my eyebrow
and grunting and just doing little interesting

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things that became kind of Shirley's whole
character and personality. And I'm so glad

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people enjoyed it. Yeah, it
was always I was always laughing so much

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at her. But even when you
didn't say anything, you know, you

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said it best when you said nothing
at all and you say a lot and

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event Nicole Brown and act your age
on Bounce TV, also with Kim Whitely

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and Tisha Campbell. And you worked
with them before, haven't you. Whitley

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yea, yeah, yes, I
never worked with them before. Kim,

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Yes, I've worked with Kim before. I had been on a show with

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Tiha, but we didn't have scenes
together. So this is the first time

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that I get to actually work with
Kim Whitley and Tisha Campbell. And they

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are two legends in this industry.
And I think I mentioned Mariah Robinson and

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Nathan Anderson who played my daughter and
kim Son respective respectively, And it's just

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it's just really a friend set.
Like guess the best way I can describe

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it aleson files. Our creator created
a runaway for us to just take off

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and fly every episode, and each
episode, which air Saturdays at eight pm,

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one Bounce, they just get better
and better and we got sixteen total

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for you to enjoy this first season
and Bounced. I'm glad you mentioned that

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Bounce TV is where you can see
at your age. You know, I've

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noticed I've been to Washington DC a
number of times. When you walk through

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Washington, DC, you can't help
but get that feeling of how much how

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many important decisions are being made just
steps away from you, Right, Can

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you imagine like behind every building something
that's happening that could change your life.

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Yeah, and the life of the
nation. And so uh. You know,

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I don't know that the citizens of
Washington, DC. Do they just

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kind of go with the flow?
Do they continue to feel that way or

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is it? Is it something they
just don't even think about? You know,

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I bet because if they live there, they're just accepting that that's what

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happened. You know, if you
lived in a town and make Coca cola,

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you would just know behind those doors
they're making some delicious cola, Right,

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you just accept it and keep moving. Event Nicole Brown, you know,

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or from Entourage site Curb Your Enthusiasm
and many more. Now she's an

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act your Age which is on Bounce
TV. Uh, and it's about women

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who active, women who are in
or the Washington, DC area. And

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for you, what, how do
you prepare for roles? Is there is

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there a a certain is there a
certain process you go through when you get

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ready for a role. Yeah.
I try to decide who well first,

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I try to decide what she will
found. Like I hope that if anyone

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watches anything I've done. My characters
on TV all have their own vocal padence.

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I try to give them their own
personality, So I try to figure

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out what she sounds like first,
and then after that, when you get

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the wardrobe on, and in certain
cases you put the hair on, you

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look in the mirror and you go, Okay, well there's Angela Martin,

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and you just know how to carry
yourself. It's all on the page for

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most of these shows. Alison Fouson, Ronado Shepherd and Sarah Jones and our

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other writers are such great writers that
everything you need to know about who this

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woman is is already on the page, and you just show up and perform

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what they've created, and event Nicole
Brown brings it to life in Act Your

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Age, which is Saturdays on Bounce, along with Kim Whitley and Titia Campbell

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and many many others and projects you
have working in the pipeline. Right now,

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you sound like you never you never
sleep. I just did a great

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film with Rain Wilson, Amy Carrero
and Little ral Howard called Code Three that's

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going to be coming out. We're
still filming that, and then I've got

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two great shows. I want to
talk about I have Shape Island on Apple

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TP plus, which is for young
people. It's a great show about three

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shapes a square, a circle,
and a triangle and how they they work

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together, kind of like how we
do on Act Your Age. And then

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I have another great show on Netflix
animated called My Dad the Bountie Hunter and

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it's a it's a black family in
space. So just that's all you need

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to know to tune in and enjoy
it. So all of that plus Act

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your Age is what's happening right now
for me. Well, that's yeah,

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that's another thing. You do a
lot of voice work. Do you enjoy

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doing that more than being on camera? I don't know about more, but

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I enjoyed a lot because I can
do it in my pajamas. Yeah,

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that's the best thing. I go
in my booth and no one has to

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see me and I get to create
a character with just my voice. It's

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wonderful and that's why I'm doing what
I do with that. Nicole Brown,

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We'll look forward to seeing you and
Act your Age Saturdays on Bounce and we

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thank you for joining us. Thank
you, thanks for listening to Later with

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Lee Matthews, The Lee Matthews Podcast
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