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The Bakari Sellers Podcast

Gelila Bekele and Telling Tyler Perry’s Story

The Bakari Sellers Podcast

The Ringer

Politics, News

4.8966 Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Bakari Sellers is joined by director Gelila Bekele to discuss her journey from modeling to filmmaking (1:10), and her new documentary chronicling the life of Tyler Perry, ‘Maxine’s Baby’ (6:49). Host: Bakari Sellers Guest: Gelila Bekela Producer: Donnie Becham Jr. Executive Producer: Jarrod Loadholt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I won't tell you that it's gonna be okay.

0:07.0

I won't tell you that it's going to be okay.

0:15.0

All right, and welcome to another episode of a

0:17.0

MacArthur Cellis podcast.

0:18.0

Today we have somebody who I can tell has probably been doing a lot of these interviews and doing a press run but she still looks

0:25.5

amazingly refreshed but none other than Belilay but Kelly. How are you doing today? Talk to me about that first. What's going on? I know this press I've been on press runs before.

0:34.7

Talk to me about how you're feeling about where you are and it's just one laptop interview after another.

0:40.4

Now, you know, I'm still processing it like as a filmmaker to be able to share my work with the world is such an honor and every every conversation has been really hard opening.

0:54.0

So my show is unique in that we ask the same question to start our interviews with everyone from

1:02.0

Sicily Tyson to Jada Pinkett to Deshaun Watson or

1:06.8

whomever it may be Hillary Clinton and now you, which is to just walk us through the

1:10.9

arc of your career because you began modeling at a young age

1:15.2

and you've been in beauty campaigns, you've been in magazines,

1:18.1

etc.

1:19.3

And you, I don't want to say recently about a decade ago

1:22.4

that you begin this this journey and

1:26.8

documentary filmmaking.

1:29.1

Just talk us through the arc of your career and how you ended up in a place where now you're on Amazon Prime, which is pretty dope in itself.

1:36.5

It is, and it's surreal. Yeah, I started, you know, and I thought actually it was going to be a dentist. I was pre-med,

1:45.0

freshman college and I was discovered by a photographer on my way to class and

1:50.4

became a model, moved to New York and had a career for almost 15 years.

1:56.0

And but you know that modeling also helped me sort of fund my passion.

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