00:00Tessa, congratulations on being honored, sir. Thank you. How does it feel? It's incredible. I mean, this, you know, necessity is the mother of invention. Essence invented this because we aren't seen enough, right, in the space of Hollywood. And I think we're in a time now where that's really shifting. And it just feels powerful. I've come here so many years just being at the table, like, feeling like an imposter, you know, being like, oh my God, I'm here.
00:30And there's Oprah. And it's incredible to now be one of the women on stage. It's so surreal. You've been putting in that work. You've been putting in that work. That was like, we have no way.
00:40On and off screen. Like, Tessa's working round the clock. So she's part of the movement, the Time's Up movement as well. Tell us more about, like, how that happened as well.
00:51I think that happened with a lot of people just being like, what do we do now? We're in this time of a real shift. And I think what's been really important for me is women, you know, black women and women of color need to really be involved in those conversations so that we're not left behind.
01:08Because things that affect women disproportionately affect us. It's important that we're in those spaces, in those rooms, have a seat at the table and are given agency, you know, when we're there.
01:18So that's my hope. I continue to hope.
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