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Toure Show

Yolonda Ross–I'm An Actor

Toure Show

DCP Entertainment

Society & Culture, Arts, Performing Arts

4.8880 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2021

⏱️ 6 minutes

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To hear this awesome conversation go to http://patreon.com/toureshow and subscribe. For just $5 a month you get 4 Friday Patreon exclusives and the full version of our Wednesday shows and you get to help us keep making this show! Yolonda Ross is a powerful actor who stars on The Chi. I’ve known her since the beginning of her career and seeing her rise has been amazing. She’s been fighting to get here for years and you can see her strength in the work. Great conversation about acting, striving, and how you move up as an actor. Toure Show Episode 268 Host & Writer: Touré Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographers: Chuck Marcus, Shanta Covington, and Nick Karp Booker: Claudia Jean The House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Okay, ready.

0:02.0

Take what you know, and it's by the time when you get yourself and we are, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, I want to know some things to see some I think about everyone you need it, I'm all in these things are good and real now.

0:25.0

I have here, see you wanting you, hey.

0:29.3

Good sort of race, oh, okay, though. Good sort of race show, okay though. That might be the best question I've ever been on. On Torrey's show, I love to ask people, what does it mean to you to be black and where does that show up in your

0:57.0

work we've heard a lot of interesting answers and I knew I would get an

1:00.9

interesting answer from the actress Yolanda Ross.

1:04.5

She's on the shy right now.

1:05.9

She was on Tramee.

1:07.1

She's had an amazing long career and I feel like blackness is really important to her work so I really wanted to know how she

1:16.6

would answer that question.

1:18.6

Influencer, it's a word that gets tossed around a lot these days. There is a woman who went the distance who

1:25.2

broke ground as the first true influencer by living a remarkable life. Her name

1:31.7

Elizabeth Taylor. I'm Katie Perry. This is the story of the

1:38.0

original influencer. This is Elizabeth the first.

1:48.0

Elizabeth the first, the podcast, wherever you listen.

1:52.0

I ask a lot of people who come on the show, what does being black mean to you in the context of your work?

1:59.6

And I wonder how that feels to you. You know, being black to me is showcasing us truthfully, whether it is somebody you like or don't like, but be truthful to who that person is.

2:20.0

Because I mean, to me, is.

2:27.8

Because I mean, to me, I'm not really interested in the pretty people, the people that, you know, whatever are supposed to be this,

2:30.6

that or the other.

2:31.7

It's like I'm interested in the person that you don't like or that you don't ever like pay attention to because I want you to get to know them. I want to get to know them. We don't take the time to get to know people. You know, as human beings, we have to

2:47.9

sum people up quickly as we function. That's how we function.

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