I'm SOOOO GLAD she made it a point to acknowledge, Glynn Turman, Suzanne Douglas and Joe Morton. We get so fixated on the "flavor of the month" and current BS, we always forget the ones who got us there. Those 3 are (were) phenomenal.
@@scinnyc He have done theater too. He was in the original Broadway production of A Raisin in the Sun with Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee when he was 12. That was his first role.
Man...I don't know why....but AJ Johnson's story about her dad made me cry...legit tears...She's still beautiful, still articulate, still an amazing human with limitless talent. ❤
She really is right. Black cinema has fallen off since the 90s and even early 2000s. American Skin was really good though. But a good black drama is hard to come by.
AJ Johnson is such a talented and educated and intelligent actress. She had great parents that instilled in her discipline and determination. Her parents had very high expectations of her. Anything else is not accepted.
A.J. is sooo right about the acting and singing/rapping talent in the 1990's. It has NEVER been the same. There are NOT evnough entertainers who are hungry for the CRAFT!!!
The Inkwell was one of my favorite movies as a kid. Love how they managed to create that cool feel-good vibe from back in the day that black adolescence films like Cooley High had. And it was something else seeing Larenz go from O-Dog to shy Drew in less than a year.
I'm crying 😭 and I don't even know Anthony Gramberry...she made me think of some of THE BIGGEST 💔 heartbreaks I've had...her earthly father remind me of my late father Walter Moss....R.I.P to both of our dad's ❤️❤️💕💕💕🤴🏾🤴🏾🦸🏽♂️🦸🏽♂️🦸🏽♂️🦸🏽♂️🦸🏽♂️🦸🏽♂️🦸🏽♂️🦸🏽♂️🦸🏽♂️🦸🏽♂️🦸🏽♂️🦸🏽♂️My dad was my biggest cheerleader,Mr Mom & Hero too!
I definitely remember watching the inkwell at the theaters and i remember this scene and said the same thing everyone else said, what a great tremendous performance by her, but laughed my ass of so hard right after when she said to him your not a man, and morris said ya well you weren't saying that shit last night were you. Hahahahaha lmfao
Seen inkwell one dam time, nobody speaks of or ever mention it damn near almost always forget about this movie it took me years to see it just to see it for the first time but I've been seeing boys in the hood ,the wood players club, Harlem nights, boomerang ,Friday , menace to society forever because they play it on BET VH1 every weekend for the last 20 years
she is so on the money...about being about the craft, not getting famous because of a tweet or whats put on tik tok...it was about the craft, about the talent.
I swear whenever I hear people say "where did all the talent go?" nowadays I automatically think 'they started hiring people based on popularity and not skill.' All these kids that are in college now that have been studying the craft of acting since they were kids but they'll throw the girl/guy from IG/Tik Tok fame in a multi-million dollar budget film first just to sell more tickets?!? SMH, tragic...
The interviewer was talking like Jada was bigger than Larenz but Larenz had done tons of TV at that point and both had done Menace To Society already. In terms of people knowing who they were, they were about equals. With that said, I appreciate AJ giving props to the OG's.
Love The Inkwell. So many great actors and actresses on that movie. I wish there was a soundtrack. Great music on that movie. The great Terrence Blanchard did his thing. RIH Suzanne Douglas. She was really beautiful.❤😔 Props to Matty Rich.
That's why fathers are so very important in a daughters life, especially black fathers! The first man a daughter falls in love with is her daddy! That bond is unbreakable! I have three daughters the eldest is 24yrs old and they will ALWAYS be daddy's little girls!
Yeah ain't nobody ever heard of /it was alot of black star power in it but doesn't get the recognition like Friday , boomerang, coming to America , boys in the hood
