Quickie: Gabrielle Union on work/life imbalance

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Heart

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Hollywood star Gabrielle Union - who starred in Bring It On and now voices Meridian in Disney’s Strange World - talks the eternal parental juggle, trying to do it all and accepting what you can do. She also opens up about the first gay teen romance in a Disney film and how we shouldn’t need to normalise what’s already normal. Original music by Matt J Brown at WeAreOK.com

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0:00.0	This is a Global Player Original podcast.
0:05.0	One and then under.
0:08.0	Yeah, oh yeah.
0:09.0	And then it's sprinkler head.
0:13.0	Something easy where everyone can be on.
0:15.0	Eyes to the front, you know.
0:16.0	Eyes to the front.
0:17.0	Yeah.
0:18.0	Okay, well there you go.
0:19.0	That felt good.
0:20.0	This is like cheerleader therapy.
0:21.6	She's an actress, she's an activist, she's been named as one of Time Magazine's most influential
0:29.6	people.
0:30.6	She is my youth muse in Bring It On.
0:33.6	She's now the voice of Meridian, the mother, the wife and the unendingly talented pilot in the
0:39.2	new Disney film. Strange World, welcome to the show, Gabrielle Union!
0:45.3	Oh, thank you guys, thanks for having me. Can we preface this with the fact that I've really
0:50.2	embarrassingly just shown Gab my cheerleading moves.
0:56.8	No need to be embarrassed. You killed it.
1:00.0	What was the move? What was the one you were doing? The one we both had was... Oh, it's this flingshot, like arrow, arrow kind of thing.
1:03.2	Yep. Yep. And then you pull it back and you push it up and out.
1:07.8	There she is in the house. So lovely to have you here in the rain.
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