Kyla Pratt on ‘The Proud Family’ Reboot and Growing Up On Camera

The Bakari Sellers Podcast

The Ringer

Politics, News

4.8 • 966 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Bakari Sellers is joined by actress Kyla Pratt to discuss her transition from child to adult actor (2:58), working with legends like Eddie Murphy (8:11), and the upcoming reboot of ‘The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder’ (19:05). Host: Bakari Sellers Guest: Kyla Pratt Producer: Donnie Beacham Executive Producer: Jarrod Loadholt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to a new that it's going to be okay.
0:17.0	Welcome to another episode of the Bakari Sellers podcast. Today I have someone who it feels like we've known for a very, very long period of time.
0:22.0	We grew up with her, we love her. We adore her.
0:24.8	Kyla Pratt. How are you? Thank you. I'm good. How you do? I'm doing good.
0:29.8	We start each one of our episodes kind of unique on the show because we have our
0:33.5	guests walk us through the arc of their career and I'm always fascinated by
0:37.6	actors or actresses who got their starts as children and I think if I might research is correct, you got into acting at
0:45.3	age seven or eight years old. How did that happen in what age were you when you
0:49.9	decided to stay in acting and what was that moment for you?
0:53.8	Yes, I did start at around seven, eight years old.
0:57.6	I grew up watching my mom.
0:59.6	My mom was and is an actress.
1:02.4	And I actually actually by chance my grandmother was on a plane showing
1:07.6	pictures of her grandkids bragging to complete total strangers and a woman
1:12.2	who ran a modeling show asked if I wanted to be in the
1:15.6	modeling show and I said yeah you know I want to be like my mom like that would be
1:19.2	cool and my first modeling show there was a panel of agents and managers and I signed with a pair of
1:26.8	agent and managers that day and I was with them for about 20 years.
1:31.0	That's kind of, that's kind of that's got a fortuitous. Grandma's love got you a career not just a job. You know what I mean? And I really just started off wanting to be like my mom and then I fell in love with it and I decided to stick with it literally when I started. I've never really wanted to do anything else. I know sometimes people ask me what would you do if you weren't in entertainment and I'm like probably a lawyer because I'm really good at arguing I really I like to I like to win I like to get my point across I like to you like to you like to win I like to get my point in cross I like to you like to win arguments that doesn't mean that just means no I mean to win a way to win an argument
2:11.6	it's like you sound like my wife right about now.
2:14.0	She just skipped the whole lawyer in part just like the win argument.
2:17.0	You know?
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