S1 Ep17: Jenifer Lewis Shares Her Journey to Become "Mother of Black Hollywood"

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The Jason Lee Show

Society & Culture, Comedy

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🗓️ 2 April 2018

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

This week Hollywood Unlocked UNCENSORED is back for another juicy episode, as our favorite hosts, Jason Lee, Melyssa Ford and Giovanni are joined by the one and only Jenifer Lewis!

In case you have been under a rock, the legend Jenifer Lewis has numerous accolades as an actress, comedian, singer and activist. Lewis is known for many roles, she has starred in, “Poetic Justice”, “The Preacher’s wife”, “Think Like a Man”, “Cast Away” and recurring roles on “Fresh Prince Of Bel Air” and "Black-Ish", just to name a few!

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0:00.0	Hi I'm Jennifer Lewis and I just did an interview with Hollywood Unlocked. It was fabulous.
0:05.4	Listen I gave y'all everything. Go get the book. I didn't write this book to make money.
0:11.6	I wrote it for you.
0:13.0	Y'all know I got money.
0:15.0	But don't ask me for none.
0:17.0	Thank you.
0:18.0	What up everybody, this is Jason Lee and this is Hollywood Unlocked Unsensored.
0:24.8	And I'm Melissa Ford aka the Curve Queen.
0:27.1	Your boy Giovanni.
0:28.0	Oh, no. Okay, we've had a lot of people in here, but we got an icon.
0:31.2	Jennifer Lewis. Yes, you are an icon.
0:34.0	You know that.
0:35.0	You know that.
0:36.0	You know that. So, okay, one day I was talking online about feeling like I was battling depression.
0:41.0	And you know in the black community, when you start talking about you feeling a certain way
0:44.2	people start to look at you crazy but I'm still on this show you got living your truth so I was
0:48.6	talking about it and then ended up on the phone with Julia and we were talking about your book got a copy your book
0:56.1	started reading it usually I'll read a chapter put it down because I don't like to
0:59.6	read what's the name of that book? The Mother Black Hollywood? Oh, I read every word in this book.
1:05.0	I know I just want everybody out there to know it's the Mother Black Hollywood.
1:07.0	We're going to talk about it all that.
1:09.0	So I'm reading this book and I started to develop so many parallels to your story was crazy.
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