Black Girl podcast, welcome to a new episode. My name is Bex. I'm Alicia P. I'm

Safera M and I'm Gia Peppers. And today we have a very special esteemed guest with us. You might know her from a different world, South Central,

love and basketball, and most recently course, the Old Guard on Netflix today.

We have Gina Prince Bikewood on the show, y'all.

Wow, down.

Bow down. How are you?

I'm very good and thank you for getting my name right. It's so scary how often it gets mangled so thank you and that time very good to be here.

You are the director of the moment it seems.

Every time I get on Twitter there's like a new

Congrats to Gina Prince Smithwood she's doing this she's doing that I'm just like it is it is so

beautiful to see and obviously now the old guard has been out on Netflix for what two weeks now to

we're going into our is it Friday it is trying

it is trying to start it's happening so fast.

How did it feel to see that it broke records?

The first week, over 72 million people watched your history-making film. What did that feel like for you?

Yeah, it's surreal. I mean those numbers are surreal. No doubt to think that that many people have seen the work.

But the cool thing was you know Netflix calls and they give you you know how it's doing over that first weekend and

Like one of the dopest things is that it you know the film over indexed you know, the film over indexed, you know,

on the whole continent of Africa.

The fact that, like, you know, Nyle,

this black female hero is now in the world and especially that you know all of us get to see her that was that was dope to me

You know the fact that for my whole career that I'm told my movies don't travel so I've never

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