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Toure Show

Phyllis Yvonne Stickney–I’m An Actor

Toure Show

DCP Entertainment

Society & Culture, Arts, Performing Arts

4.8880 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2021

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Phyllis Yvonne Stickney is an actor’s actor. She’s been in Malcolm X, New Jack City, What’s Love Got To Do With It, the Inkwell, and many more. She’s a great character actor who knows how to thrive in Hollywood. We talk about how to act and how to make it. To hear this awesome conversation go to http://patreon.com/toureshow and subscribe. For just $5 a month you get 4 Friday Patreon exclusives and the full version of our Wednesday shows and you get to help us keep making this show! Patreon.com/toureshow Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure Toure Show Episode 232 Host & Writer: Touré Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographers: Chuck Marcus and Shanta Covington Booker: Claudia Jean The House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

And the Phyllis Yvonne Stickney is an extraordinary experienced actress, but she won't do just anything.

0:25.0

She got standards.

0:27.0

So are there rules that you've said no to?

0:30.0

Oh, there's rules I've said in the players club.

0:34.0

Like, like what?

0:35.0

In the players club, even though Cube called me and offered me the role, I ain't got to audition

0:40.1

or nothing.

0:41.1

When I said, well, what's this character character when I read it and no I turn down the role in

0:46.0

Woody Allen because it was a prostitute and I refused to play a prostitute, a junkie, and certain roles.

0:53.6

Which Woody Allen film was there?

0:55.6

And I cannot name the name of it right now.

0:58.2

I'm trying to think of it.

0:59.0

It was actor Zell.

1:01.6

Zell Goodman was the actress who ultimately played the role.

1:04.4

Now she's an evangelist.

1:06.0

I guess that role took a turn to out there.

1:09.8

I love it, but another richly-melinated chocolate sister who used to ask me how do you do it how do you stay positive.

1:15.1

But that was a role that when I saw it actually when I was in Paris and you know

1:19.8

a user every day I'm on France on France, to all French and

1:23.7

and so it's difficult for me.

1:25.8

So I was, I want to hear English!

1:27.4

English!

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