S E411: "All Rise!" Simone Missick Talks About Her Hollywood Ascent

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Empowerment, Africana Studies, Greg Carr, Karen Hunter, History, Education, Society & Culture

4.5 • 888 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Simone Missick, star of the CBS legal drama All Rise and Misty from Luke Cage, talks about her "overnight" success and how she's still grounded. She also talks about the diversity and climate in Hollywood.

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0:00.0	This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. Y'all know I watch way too much television and it's okay. That's my escape. You have your vices, I have mine, and we first met her, well I first met her as Misty Knight on Luke Cage which at that point was the blackest
0:26.2	show on television on Netflix and now I was like last season I saw her I saw a Misty as a judge in all rise and I was like okay I got to
0:37.6	support my sister who's out there she don't know me but I'm gonna support this
0:40.8	show because I don't see black judges often women period
0:45.6	shout out to Houston though because y'all had like 19 of them that you elected but
0:50.0	she's in LA County Lolaola Carmichael, she plays on All Rise.
0:55.0	Let me welcome to the show for the first time, the one and only Simone Missick.
0:59.0	Welcome.
1:00.0	Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
1:02.0	How you doing? How you doing good. I'm staying safe and healthy.
1:07.0	Okay. Now I've talked to several actors.
1:10.0	I talked to Falake from Bob Hart Abishola and and and CBS what you're on
1:18.0	they decided with that show to not even talk about the pandemic not talk about the
1:22.3	racial unrest they're going just, yeah, they're just
1:25.2	forging ahead with, you know, escape, which is what television is. But y'all's first episode of season two,
1:33.0	bam, we're right in the middle of protest.
1:35.0	You literally put your body in front of a young girl
1:38.0	that the police pulled a gun on.
1:40.0	I was like, okay, this is very real.
1:42.0	Y'all got your mass on everything's being
1:44.2	cleaned that wiped down pandemic clear out the building and and as I was watching it I
1:50.0	was like I'm doing the math count did they have to tear up the script?
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