Best of full interview: Mara Brock Akil Talks ‘Forever,' Black Love, Lessons From Storytelling, Girlfriends’ Movie + More
The Breakfast Club
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4.4 • 14.4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2026
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Best of 2025- Queens - Mara Brock Akil Talks ‘Forever,' Black Love, Lessons From Storytelling, Girlfriends’ Movie . Recorded 2025.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. Wake that ass up. Earl, in the morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ NV. Just hilarious. Salomey Nagar. We are the Breakfast Club. La Rosa is here as well. And we got a special guest in the building. The legendary. That's right, Ms. Mara Krak, Akil. Welcome. Thank you. Good morning. Good morning. Nice to be here. How are you? |
| 0:25.1 | Bless black and highly favorite. How's your energy? It's great. Okay. I'm really, I'm floating. How does it feel to have yet another hit TV show? |
| 0:33.4 | Another. Another hit TV show. But this is global. |
| 0:38.6 | This is like the first time I have been on a stage this big. |
| 0:42.5 | Normally my shows are on up-and-coming networks. |
| 0:48.9 | So I feel like an ingenue, actually. |
| 0:51.5 | I feel both veteran and both um i'm also in awe you know it's just |
| 0:59.0 | an idea is a global conversation that is kind of i'm i'm sitting in that mostly my career i've been |
| 1:07.7 | thinking about a national conversation um but this is a global one. And I mean, I've always known that our stories are global, but for it to be a reality, it's pretty special. And another hit, right, to be at it. 30 years in the game. 30 years in the game. I love that. But let's talk about it. Of course, for people that are just tuning in, you created shows like girlfriends, the game, being Mary Jane, you've written on the Jamie Fox Show and so many others. But this one is. Moisha. Mo. So many. South Central. Oh, see. So many. I see you. This one's on Netflix. Yeah. Yeah. This one's on Netflix. Yeah. So how did the Netflix play come together? |
| 1:47.4 | We're doing forever. This one's on Netflix. Yeah. Yeah. This one's on Netflix. |
| 1:44.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:47.3 | So how did the Netflix play come together? |
| 1:48.0 | We're doing forever. Well, I had a deal. |
| 1:48.6 | You know, my career did garner me a really wonderful deal. |
| 1:51.5 | Out of that deal, I did stamp from the beginning. |
| 1:53.4 | I hope you guys all saw that amazing documentary that Roger Ross Williams directed, but about Dr. |
| 1:59.8 | Abraham Kennedy's work about the racist lies. |
| 2:04.1 | I mean, the myths of racism. |
| 2:06.1 | That was my first offering in my deal. |
| 2:09.1 | And this was the second. |
| 2:10.5 | It took a minute, strikes and executive changes and whatnot. |
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