Places like that, you don't really get to see a lot of people that have lived there, their dreams, their their big dreams like this.

And I just had to believe that it was possible.

I'm Dominique Fish back and this is on the rise.

When I was 10 years old, I would stay up to one o'clock in the morning just to catch.

I love Lucy, and my mom would be like, You're gonna suffer in the morning when it's time to go to school.

But I just stayed up and watched Lucy.

I would watch Sister, sister and take notes on if I was to marry.

I will do like this if I was you, I would do it like that who loved a lot of romance.

Since I was a kid, I probably should have been watching Titanic, but I would always catch it on TV.

The Titanic, Romeo and Juliet, of course.

Leo and and Claire, I use my mom said.

When I was about five, I used to to melt to the floor and excruciating pain and say, I'm nothing.

I was always good with the West, so there was that mhm, especially when I got to college.

A lot of friends would kind of say that their family made them take theater as a minor or made them take something else.

And then you can go.

But that shouldn't be a career.

And my mom never.

She never tried to make me get a job like a regular job.

She always she supported me.

She took out loans for me to go to Pace University so that I could study theater.

Very supportive.

I wrote and starred in the one on Michelle called Subverted about the destruction of Black Identity in America, and I played 22 different characters spanning from, uh, the slave era and the modern side.

They parallel to show comparisons when I was in sociology class.

A lot of times I'll be the only black person in my class, and this white boy said, if African American males and low income communities dressed normally, they wouldn't be stopped by the police.

And I was like and I started debating with him and I looked around and nobody could advocate with me because nobody was from where I was from and I was really upset.

But then I told myself down, he doesn't know.

What I can do is instead of getting mad, I could use the gifts and talents that God gave me to create a show.

And then for an hour and 20 minutes, that's predominantly white University has to sit in my truth and the truth of people who come from areas like mine.

I was doing a D r for Show me a hero and David before, before going into the booth, David said, Um, I want to talk to you about something afterwards and I was like, Okay, like you say it right before I go into this a d r.

So go in and finish it and then he says, So I don't know if you heard, but I'm working on a new show.

I was like, No, he said, it's called the Deuce and I wrote a character with you in mind.

But it's not a role you take just to take it because, well, it's about the rise of the point industry in the 19 seventies in Times Square.

So read the script, and if you don't want to do it, it's no harm, no foul I talked to my mom about it, about the nudity, and she said, Damn, you're an actress And if if you feel comfortable that situation do, then I don't have no problem with it.

And I wrote before the deuce came out like an open letter to my family and friends on Facebook about it, because I really didn't want to hear people.

Sometimes people think they're being encouraging, and they're not.

When they say things like, You know, you're so talented, you don't have to do that.

It's like I know I don't have to do that like I'm the one.

I'm the one looking over the script.

I'm the one weighing out all of the options.

You don't think I thought about what you know, like I just even though they don't mean any harm.

But you kind of get you could get defensive about that, especially when they think that some other entity is controlling what you decide to do with your body.

I remember just wanting to go really based on part and sole, and I didn't want to play into the idea of a sex worker talking a certain way or walk in a certain way I said she's gonna be That's her job.

And she is going to be that no matter what, no matter how she's Coco played.

And so I just want to live.

I really appreciate it journal in a judicious in the back of Messiah because it wasn't a crutch, and I realized that people were loving the performances that I was doing, and then I thought, Well, I have to journal.

I have to write all of these things out to make sure that I'm I'm playing a character the best of my ability.

And then when I got to do Project power and Jamie Foxx and Joseph Gordon Levitt, it was moving fast.

We had six day weeks.

We would get new scenes written like right before we shot.

And so I really didn't get the opportunity to journalist Robin.

I remember talking to Jamie and being like, Do you Do you ever feel like that?

It's just easy, or how do you always feel, he said.

Do you watch basketball?

And sometimes, he says, when Steph Curry runs down, according he shoots a three and it goes in, he doesn't question himself as to why wouldn't it he's been doing it for so long and so have you.

And so it's kind of muscle memory and you don't have to worry about those things because it's already inside the poem I read to Daniel and the scene is called when the people call as a poem that I got to write that Shaka, allow me to put my own spin in my own truth to it.

I also was like, Well, you know, I was kind of wondering if Debra I have a journal that she carries around, even if it's not the It's not, like heavily featured in the scene, at least for the audience, and our peripheral region will see that she's constantly writing.

We'll see.

She has a world going on outside of the chairman outside of the Black Panther Party that I wanted her to have something that belonged to her actually have to look right here.

It's a prop, and they always want to keep props on set.

But I was like, I don't know.

Yeah, you can't have this one, like like it's really her personal my personal thoughts, but I really allow for every moment I'm looking at a poem called Have you ever kissed a silver tongue?

And that's about their first kiss.

This one was really important because it was an opportunity to tell such a transformative black love love in general but black specifically because a lot of times we don't get to celebrate that and see that being a romantic.

And I always wanted to tell those stories and then getting to poor try it to help highlight who chairman Fred Hampton is and was was just an honor.

So when I think about making it, I will say that I feel like I got to a place where I I can feel like I've shown versus utility.

But there's so much more things that are that I want to do that I have in mind to do even like I'm doing a writing the book.

Write a novel writing poetry book.

My friend and I are doing a book club for young women for women.

I love to share knowledge.

If people want to know, it will be here for them.

If they don't, then they can, you know, just like a like a cute picture, that outpost or something, you know, just really, really trying to tap into soul's purpose and why I'm here in five years.

My dream scenario, whatever God has in store in the universe because every time I try to limit something, it always makes it bigger than what I could imagine.

So I will leave space for all those magical things to happen.

But I see a house with a basketball court.

I see.

Definitely my husband and my kids.

Probably too.

Five years.

Yeah, maybe.

Or maybe at least one.

How old are you getting over there with them?

We want to resort somewhere that Tony Award Oscar.

You know, the things that the things that we wanted as kids for me anyway, when I was a kid and wanted to be an actor, we saw those things and we had the microphone of the remote and we're like, just so I want to be able to get up there and said and say like, how big?

He said, Brooklyn, we did it.

We did it again.

And Jay Z said it too.

And where are biggie and the fact that we have the same?