00:00It's very difficult being a gay kid coming out to a parent.
00:04But I think what I learned in making the episode
00:06is that it's also difficult being a parent,
00:08having to have your kid come out to you.
00:13Ma, I'm gay.
00:15You what?
00:17I'm gay.
00:18I've always been gay.
00:20But I'm still the same person.
00:24I'm still your daughter.
00:27Nothing's changed.
00:29The coming out scene was, like, so, like, I literally, like,
00:32Aziz actually, like, left the room.
00:33We were in a hotel, and, like, he left the room,
00:35and I was kind of sitting there by myself.
00:36And it's also, the thing about coming out, it's like, it's not fun.
00:38The great thing is the mom isn't the villain, you know,
00:41and my character isn't the hero.
00:42You know, we're both human beings trying to figure out
00:45what we want to mean to each other
00:47and how we want to move forward.
00:50I just, I don't want life to be hard for you.
00:53It is hard enough being a black woman in this world.
00:55Now you want to add something else to that.
00:56It's not like this was my choice.
00:58I think the thing that was so interesting to me was that
01:00there is a sort of misconception that, for people of color,
01:03the first thing you go to is religion.
01:05Like, they throw the Bible at you, and the truth is, like,
01:06there wasn't a Bible in my house to throw at me.
01:08It was more about what are the neighbors going to take?
01:10I just wish I knew where I went wrong.
01:12What do you mean where you went wrong?
01:14Denise ain't never been arrested.
01:16She in college.
01:16She keep her job as she respects her elders.
01:18Honey, if she want to lay around with some women, baby,
01:20that is her business.
01:21I knew that episode would work because, you know,
01:24anytime I feel like we do stuff where it's really coming
01:27straight from our hearts and our lives,
01:29and it's very honest and full of, you know, real details,
01:32it always connects with people.
01:33You can just kind of, it somehow comes through,
01:35and the only reason that episode works is because of Alina.
01:38Yeah, that's what I'm trying to say.
01:40Like, I like her.
01:42I have a crush on her.
01:45Wait, are you trying to tell me that you're, you know...
01:50Lebanese.
01:51Wait, you're from Lebanon?
01:52No, I just, I don't know how to,
01:54I'm not comfortable with the word, uh, lesbian.
01:58I hope with the more people that are out and proud
02:01and come out and aren't ashamed,
02:03I think the easier their experiences will become.
02:06Damn, this has been an intense talk.
02:08Wanna smoke some weed?
02:09I got some shit that's dank.
02:14And the other one...
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