This is an I-Heart podcast.

My guest is Julius Tenon.

He's a co-president in Juvie Productions, which he founded with his wife, Viola Davis.

Julius is an accomplished film, television, and theater veteran actor, which I didn't know.

All I knew is he was a producer.

So when I read this bio, I'm learning so much, but we're going to learn a lot about him on this show because I'm smiling all the stuff I didn't know.

Produced with over 30 years of experience, Juvieh created and nonscripted television, film, documentaries, theater, and digital immersive content for global audiences.

The company currently has the Fruiturt Look feature production deal with

Amazon Studios on the film side, as well as an overall development deal with ABC Studios and ABC

signature studios for broadcast, cable, streaming, and digital platforms. Please welcome to Money Making

Conversation Masterclass, the one and only, Julius Tenon. How are you doing, sir?

I'm doing good, Rashon. Thank you so much. And let me just say the ABC deal we had, we went to Amazon. Yes, sir. We left that deal after four years, then we went to Amazon for a couple of years.

And we've developed quite a robust roster of things, but mandate changed and all those kinds of things.

So right now, we're in the throes of finding a new deal, and we have a bunch of fish biting.

Yes. So I think we're going to have a new deal here shortly. But our run at ABC was certainly amazing.

And we really appreciated being in that deal, given that Viola was doing how to get away with murder at the time. And so it really voted well, and we did a lot of things, got a lot of things out there. So it set us up to where we are today. Well, you know, some of the Julius, and thank you for taking the time to come on the show because of the fact that, you know, I always realize there are two people in the process of getting success, the person in the front of the camera and the person behind the camera.

And you guys are doing something beautiful here.

Success behind the camera, which I categorize as you and her success in front of the camera.

Not saying she don't do stuff behind the camera.

But that relationship, how does it make juvie productions unique? Well, what, you know,

for us, what makes UV production unique is the brand we have. And the brand is Viola Davis.

I mean, you know, I mean, and I really take that really seriously because Viola is somebody who's very committed to her craft

...