00:00I'm Brandi Victorian, Senior Entertainment Editor at Essence Magazine, and we are here
00:06at the closing night of AFI Fest for the premiere of King Richard. Let's see what the stars are
00:11serving up on the red carpet. I love your hair. Tell us about the nod and taking it back to the
00:16beads and the braid. Yeah, I know it's very retro and it's kind of going back to like,
00:19you know, back in the day. Well, I think I love that scene where Will says, you know,
00:25you don't just represent yourself, you represent all the other little black girls who will see you.
00:29What was great about it that is that the Williams family, they knew that.
00:32They loved their father so much and that was the thing that surprised me when I was first going in.
00:39I'm like, okay, they really deeply, deeply loved their father.
00:44It was such a cool story and it also was like a girl power story because it's,
00:48no one knows how many sisters there were or there are.
00:51This is a really beautiful step for our industry to be like,
00:53just let them be. Just let us be. Can I just be a black girl on screen?
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