So, So tell me a little bit more about that zone that you get into as an actor.

You can't get into it at will, can you?

No, I think you can make yourself calm at will, and then you can give a good performance.

But when you get to that place and you have people

that are working with you and they throw you the line, you throw them the line, they give

you that hug or they give you that touch and

then it just sparks something and then you just end up getting there know, and it's sort of like, I would say it's like great sex.

It's just like, whoa, if you've ever had it, you know what it is, and it's like oh God just amazing.

Cheryl Lee Ralph is an amazing veteran actor

who won a Tony for the original Broadway production of Dreamgirls

but is best known to a lot of people as Brandy's tough step-mom

on Moisha. She's now directed a powerful short film for

B. E.T. Her about women's health and internet fame called Like,

comment, subscribe. She's a pretty amazing fascinating interesting person for half of this interview

you can get it for free for the full interview go to patreon.com

slash tore show for now let's get into the amazing the awesome the

powerful Cheryl Lee Ralph on tour a show.

So you have made a really powerful short film for BET, about a woman with breast cancer

who's being really thoughtful about it and really loving with her fans on social media.

It's called like, comment, subscribe.

And it's why, and you're directing this. You don't appear in it you're just directing it I want to hear you talk about

just what you were thinking about as a director in in in overseeing this piece because it's a very loving, heartfelt, emotional

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