Bre-Z of All American
Elvis Duran and the Morning Show ON DEMAND
Elvis Duran Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
This week, Tommy is joined by the incredibly talented rapper and actress Bre-Z. She rose to worldwide fame playing Freda Gatz on the hit Fox drama Empire, working alongside Taraji P. Henson and Terrence Howard. Fast forward to today, she currently stars in the CW hit show, All American, now in its sixth season. The 100th episode of All American airs this summer which is an incredible milestone that many shows don’t have the opportunity to reach. Today Bre-Z opens up about how working as a barber led her to the opportunity of a lifetime in Hollywood that changed her life forever, joining one of the most popular shows on television at the time for her very first acting job, how she pushed fear aside to just focus on the job in front of her, creating original songs for her role on Empire, what she most relates to playing Coop on All American, how the show tackles real-life topics in a way that makes audiences feel represented, why its okay to not know everything, remaining authentic in an industry that makes it very difficult to do so, why she proudly stepped into being a role model for visibility among a community of people who don’t feel seen, the importance of disconnecting from time to time to protect her mental health, and a powerful realization she had one year ago.
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| 0:00.0 | There's something different about the conversations we have late at night. |
| 0:03.6 | They often spin off in strange and wonderful directions. |
| 0:06.6 | So what if those laid-back conversations were with some of the biggest musicians in the world? |
| 0:10.7 | Midnight Chances already welcomed Taimin Parler, Charlie XeX, Mark Ronson, |
| 0:15.0 | Vince Staples and many more. Join me Stuart Stubbs and me Greg Cochran as we talk to our |
| 0:19.9 | favorite musicians about the things they don't normally talk about. |
| 0:23.0 | Listen to the new series of midnight chats on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your favorite |
| 0:28.5 | shows. |
| 0:29.5 | If someone asked you to name a queer icon, who would you say? |
| 0:33.7 | Brittany, Christina, Shirley Bassi, Tina, Madonna, |
| 0:38.7 | Indion, Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey. |
| 0:41.0 | Bruce Springstein. |
| 0:42.4 | This is because the bus belongs to us. |
| 0:46.8 | A serious journalistic quest to get Bruce Springstein recognized as the queer icon we know that he is. |
| 0:53.4 | Listen to, because the boss belongs to us, |
| 0:55.8 | on the I-HOT radio app, Apple Podcasts, |
| 0:58.3 | or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:00.5 | I'm Jordan Insolvis, and I'm a journalist. |
| 1:03.0 | Join me on my new podcast, But We Loved, where queer elders recount the amazing history they've lived through. |
| 1:10.0 | In the middle of Wall Street, they traffic they were doing a dying and in the process |
| 1:18.0 | share little gems of wisdom for the next generation The key is to understanding yourself, |
| 1:26.0 | learning to love and embrace yourself. |
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