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Reggie Yates

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“And they're like, man. Well, the truth is uncomfortable, right? And it's usually It's usually harder than people want it to be. And that, unfortunately, in this conversation is both the case for someone like yourself who sat on one side of the table saying, this is what you need to do. And on the other side of the table, the person saying, well, I don't want to do all of that. And what you both leave with is truth. And that is that you can't control someone else. And that is that you've really got to do the things that you aren't willing to do to get what you want”
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“Absolutely. If you do this, you're going to be like this, which means you're going to be just like me and you're going to be great.”
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“I've done it. I can't be mad at someone else who's doing a similar thing because there is that point in your life where you have to figure out through mistakes or through trial and error what you're ultimately supposed to do.”
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“Don't want to give all that up. And it was like, all right, so are we going to sign this thing or not? And I walked away from what would have been another career. Because ultimately it wasn't what I was supposed to do, and I wasn't willing to give up the thing that I loved, but I needed to spend three or four years of wasting the time. People that were in producers and singer songwriters who'd come and collaborate with me and people gave studios were giving me free time, record labels were offering me contracts and they were rewriting them. All of this investment into me for me to say. Now I'm just going to go back and do what I was doing before I met all of you lot. Sorry, you know?”
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“And I was adamant that this was what I was going to do. I was going to be the first person that could host top of the pops and perform on it. Like that was my thing, right? And when my God rested his soul, music lawyer at the time, Richard Andrew, sat me down and said, okay, you see that top of the pops that you're hosting? You see that radio one show that you got? You're going to have to leave all of that, bro, to do this because you're going to tour, you're going to be in studio. We're going to send you here, there and there are the label we'll want you to record and blah”
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“Mate, it's like practice for parenting, isn't it? People that you love or invested in aren't necessarily always going to do what you think they should do. And you can't be mad at them for it because it's their journey. And that is something that I'm incredibly thankful for, that the people that I've had around me have allowed me to not listen and make mistakes or go in another direction. Like I had a huge, huge desire to be a musician for a long time. And I was making music and I was offered a publishing deal and I was collaborating with everyone from, I mean, I won't even say the names, but you know, I made an album and I had a deal on the table.”
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“I definitely get you and I hear you because I've definitely felt that before, especially when it comes to young people that want you to help them or that want you to mentor them. And you take a chance on someone and you give them all the information. You give them the blueprint. Give them all the tools and they still don't listen or they agree and they do the total opposite.”
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“And I'm very specific about words sometimes. I try to be anyway. I hate saying the word can't. I feel really strongly about this. You can't allow yourself to think that way because who they are is based on their journey.”
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“And that's how I feel right now. I feel like I can do anything. I had an idea at a funeral of all places. Two years later, it's a movie that is coming out in cinemas. Genuinely think that anything that I put my heart to and my mind to, I can make happen, I can make real.”
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“My mother believed that my gift is to see and to communicate. And she always said that to me since I was a kid, you know, you can see and you can communicate. And the communication thing has sort of panned out. You know, essentially how I pay my bills, sharing ideas. And the C part of it is quite ambiguous in a lot of ways. Because what I've come to understand that to mean is that, you know, as a kid, I used to dream quite vivid things and they would all come to pass to, you know, learning about self and doing some reading, going to some seminars, watching some stuff you understand things about manifestation, all the rest of it. And that dream thing has sort of changed into manifestation in a lot of ways. And when things start to happen that you had in your head, it teaches you that you can do anything.”
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“Unlimited. And I don't say that because I think I'm the Bron James because I definitely can't dunk like LeBron. But I do think I don't think I know anything that I've wanted to do, like really wanted to do. I've really worked for I've achieved. And because that has happened, Can happen in any way, shape or form. My mother believes that she's quite a spiritual woman, as most West African women are. I'm sure you've got your stories, but she believes that everybody's born with a gift, right?”
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“There was always a distance between me and the person that was helping guide me, shortening that distance for me in the lives of others is what success feels like. So the big thing is being creatively fulfilled, financially free, and ultimately understanding what it feels to love and be loved, really.”
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“Why not make it speak to what you care about? Why not make it something that can actively inspire other people to be better than you are and do more than you've ever done? For me, empowering others is a huge part of my drive right now. And working with young talented people inspires me to be better. And as a result, I feel incredibly fulfilled. You know, I don't see myself as a mentor, but I've technically mentored three or four people. And they're like my little brothers and sisters now. That's how I see them. They're my friends who come around for dinner, football or whatever. And, you know, guys and girls will call me and ask for advice on their relationship or on a decision that they have to make professionally. And I love that I have that relationship with people because I never had it growing up. I had these bits of dad, but I never had the big brother, you know?”
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“I always go back to that mum in the street who stopped me and said, Your role model for my kid and me hating it and then finally coming around to realizing I have no choice in the matter. If you have an opportunity to make movies, to sell product, to make TV shows, to create a cause-led initiative. Why not make it good?”
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“The big professional feeling is being creatively fulfilled in broad terms, in more specific terms, it's my business. We haven't actively launched yet, but we are working and operating, and that is 5'7". So I have a company called 5.7, which is a people product and content business, which has a cause arm. We have past the mic, which is a platform that we created for young creatives, which is growing and doing really beautiful things in terms of empowering diverse voices right the way through to content. We make everything from feature films like pirates or make me famous, write the way through to product. Like blue skies. Everything that we do at 5-7 has the fingerprints of my outlook on the world. And this idea of understanding the power of platform, like there are so many people that get to a point of notoriety and start selling slinty.”
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“It really does It really does, but I mean, our parents' generation all got married a lot younger than we did. Look at the divorce rates. Yeah. I think being happy with who you are first is imperative to being able to recognize someone who is happy within themselves.”
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“You've got to be complete to meet someone who's complete, to begin something new together. And it's that idea of your life, their life, and the shared life, right? And being willing to recognize that they have to have a life separate from yours. And as you do, for you to build something together that's separate and different. And I'm excited about that because I feel as though my universe. Looks the way that I've always wanted it to. I love the friends that I have. You know, they're like family to me. I love the home that I have. I love the relationships that I have with my mother's like my mate now. It's really lovely. And all of that has been work that I've had to do on my own. So now I can come to the table as a healthy, grown-up and make healthy conversation and have healthy decision making, you know?”
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“Terms of my development in knowing who I am, the level of self-confidence I have, and also what I'm fighting for. Suddenly been crystallized As someone who has the ability to do lots of different things, I was running around trying to figure out who I was supposed to be and at the same time worrying about what I was leaving behind for so many years. Whereas now I've tried loads of different things. I've had lots of different kinds of relationships. I've traveled. I've done all these different things that I know what I want for me. And I also... Feel fairly confident. I wouldn't say I know, but I feel fairly confident about what love looks like for me, what success looks like for me, and what fulfillment feels like for me, which instantly makes picking a partner or being chosen a lot easier.”
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“Think you need, yeah, I think so. I think because I'm on my journey professionally and the worry of not getting there, which could affect you romantically, doesn't exist anymore for me, that's a huge thing that is taken out of the equation of who I am romantically. I think because of the age that I am and the experiences that I've had, I'm very close to being who I will be for the foreseeable. Yes, I am a moving target, but the target's moving a lot slower now. The things that are changing in me aren't as big as they were in my teens into my 20s. So meeting someone today and being with them in five years, I don't envisage just being totally different people.”
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“I forgave him a long time ago because Think it was, like I said, the point when some of my friends started to become fathers, you realized that not everybody is going to get it right and not everybody's cut out for it. And I was just unfortunate to not have one of those world's greatest dad guys. I ended up getting a dad that just really wasn't ready to do it or grow up. And I can't be mad at him for his journey that brought him to being the man that he was when he became a father”
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“One song, Jesus Christ It's called JoJo Song. We have the same name. He's called Reginald Yates. I'm Reginald Yates. And obviously Ghanaians, could you, based on the day that he's born, I'm Kwabna, I'm Tuesday. And so everyone calls him JoJo, right? So it's JoJo's song. And it's a song where he's singing and playing a thumb piano and it's just, oh my God, it's beautiful. And to know that this man who for chunks of my teens I really resented because I felt that he wasn't there for me has this beauty in him moves me to tears whenever I listen to him sing.”
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“You're trying to protect yourself In doing what feels right in the moment, but ultimately you're killing something that could have been incredible. I think we've all been there. I certainly have. Definitely. I'm just really thankful that I don't do it anymore. I remember sort of rejecting this idea of. Who my family was and how much of an impact that had on me. And then when I embraced it and I embraced the good and the bad, I was able to see so much of the good. You know, my father, who I don't have a relationship with, is an incredible musician. He's still part of a band to this day. And, you know, I put on his album and I cry. Because it's like this man brings so much beauty and joy to strangers. He wasn't able to give it to me, but I'm objectively able to find that beauty in the art that he creates today.”
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“Definitely. I think it's partially because of what I grew up in and partially because of the relationships that experience up until that point”
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“Have this lovely house where all their kids at the time lived at home, and there was this neon sign on the wall that said everything is going to be okay with literally in lights on the wall in their house where their children were growing up. And it grounded me to the spot when I saw it because I thought. Subconsciously, what is that doing to these children that they are safe as a message in light is something that they walk past every day. To me, that's what love looks like. Being able to tell someone you love them without having to say anything based on the environment you've created, based on who you are for them and them feeling safe That to me was in one moment a real. Real sort of opener in terms of what I would be searching for and should be searching for that feeling of safety from someone that doesn't need to be said.”
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“We have conversations like this, and I have conversations like this with my friends, and I know for a fact that my dad and my stepfather wouldn't sit around with their group of predominantly black friends and have conversations about, you know, healthy relationships. Mental health, etc. So, this is the last time I'll mention him because I feel like I've said so much about them. But again, Richard and Emma, when I went to their house for the first time in Nottinghill. And I walked in and saw this sign on the wall. It broke my heart and excited me in a way that I've never been excited before. And those two conflicting emotions stick such a visceral moment that I had that no one in the room was aware of. They've got a bunch of kids”
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“Just try my hardest to be as kind as I can to the decisions that my parents made and how that in turn affected me because I think culturally now we live in an era where we think more about our How our behavior affects others than ever before. And the way in which my stepfather spoke to me at one point, or the way in which they interacted in front of us as kids Whatever it was, you know, I don't think it ever occurred to them the effect that that might have. That's not because they're bad people. That's because culturally that wasn't even in the conversation at that time. So I hold no judgment towards parents from that generation. I've got no excuse though because, you know, when I'm a parent, I know better. I've had 10 years plus of therapy and also I exist in the self-help generation where we've read every book.”
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“Massively. Again, we're talking about the journey of others, so I'll try and be as respectful as I can. As an adult who is now a lot older than my parents were when they had me, I'm able to have a little clarity on their decision making and understanding that their age probably played a big part in some of the decisions that they made. I'm sure it's the same for you. You know, you look at friends who get married in their early 20s or essentially find their life partner before they've had a life. And you can have an opinion on it, but you're not necessarily going to be right because there's no way of knowing. You can have an assumption as to where it's going to go and how it's going to play out. Because let's face it, who you are at 21 is infinitely different to who you are at 29, let alone 30 plus.”
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“Figure out, but what seems to keep coming up for me is what the foundations of any healthy relationship actually are. And the foundation for me that I'm in search of is friendship, I think if I want to not only spend time with you in the way that I would a friend, but also I'm kind to you in the way that I am to my friends in terms of allowances and allowing for being wrong and also figuring it out and also having a healthy conversation about something when you're on different sides of the argument. Bringing that into my romantic relationships has already started conversations in a way that feel healthier than anything I've ever experienced before.”
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“Well, work has to be quite black and white in a lot of ways, doesn't it? You have to be very clear and clinical about what needs to get done to achieve the thing. And that's just not the case when you're dealing with a human being. If the thing is having a nice dinner and having a conversation where everybody feels heard, you can't be black and white about that. There is a gray area that relationships, romantic, platonic, professional, whatever, that they can operate in that require wriggle room. And I think that at my worst, I've not allowed for wriggle room when it comes to somebody's outlook or perspective. Ultimately, I am very happy that I am where I am. And I think I've ultimately made the right decisions in terms of my relationship choices and whoever I end up with hopefully will be the best version of themselves and I will be the best version of myself.”
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“I think my previous partners will say that I always operated with the best intentions, but didn't listen enough. And listening so important. Oh my God, especially if you've got a lot to say, and especially if you've done work and you know stuff, you think you know stuff. You can, and I certainly did in my 20s fall into this belief that I knew enough. And I didn't need to listen to you because you don't know as much as me. I mean, it's incredibly unhealthy and potentially quite toxic. So yeah, I think my biggest failure romantically has been to not listen.”
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“I definitely was Not so much now and I learned the hard way. I've been in feld relationships and I've also, even in my most recent relationship, my desire to understand only went so far. And I've done some more work on myself and ultimately didn't work out. But I think I understand why and I definitely understand the role that I played in that.”
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“It's part of it. Because work is and isn't work. It's a part of who I am. I go to the cinema twice a week. I've just put a movie theater in my home. God forbid anybody tell me that I shouldn't be in there as much as I intend to be. Movies have got me where I am and have helped. I learned to shave watching Danny Glover teach his son how to shave on lethal weapons. Films owe a huge part of my life. You've got to understand that, you know, you have to understand me professionally just as much as you do emotionally, spiritually, and culturally.”
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“Incredibly important to me, and there is a huge difference between empathy and understanding. And being in a relationship with someone that doesn't understand those three pendants, Well, if they don't understand those three pendants, they won't understand me. So when I say understanding, I speak to that. And it's very easy to say that you can love someone unconditionally. But when you're someone like you or I who meets a thousand people a week, some on the street, some in situations like this, some through crew that you'll never meet again. You long to come home, look at your partner, and not need to say anything and for them to understand you. And that's why understanding such a huge part of it.”
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“Okay, so the point I was about to make, and I think that this is something that might, I don't know, I'm interested to see if this speaks to you, is the understanding part of it, right? I say understanding and it feels like quite a blanket term. But what I mean by that is Culture is such a huge thing for me. Like I'm walking around at the moment with this tiny little chain on, but the pendants on it are Jinyami, which is a Ghanaian symbol, which means trust in God. I've got a little Africa symbol, and I've also got my family crest, right? I don't even think about these things anymore. But when I think about what I have on me, literally. My family is incredibly important to me. My relationship with my spirit is incredibly important to me and where I'm from”
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“Think it's very simple it's to be with someone that I can love unconditionally and that will love me back unconditionally. The simplest version of it, and that is flaws and all. And I think it's also the desire to be understood and also the ability to understand.”
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“It's never going to be easy to be in a relationship with someone like myself, or imagine you because we are moving targets.”
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“I'm a fiercely creative person with a very young spirit. Who needs friendship And understanding and empathy. As a writer, you know, when you're building characters, one of my favorite things to do for my characters is write down what is the lie your character believes. And I think for the longest time, I believe that I would find a female me and I couldn't imagine anything worse today. And also, you know, you have to understand the difference between your characters' wants and needs, which is why I find writing so cathartic because I'm essentially doing therapy on me as I'm creating different versions of me at different points in my life.”
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“You continue to work on yourself and you continue to have that hunger to be better for yourself and for others. And it's incredibly difficult to find someone that is either on the same path or has the empathy and understanding for you and the path that you're on and the knock-on effects that that will have romantically”
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“Is hoping that someone will become the person that I really feel that I need in terms of their understanding of me or expecting them to. And in doing the work and realizing the role that I play in that, I've been at different times very responsible in those moments of conflict, shall we say. Whereas today, I'm just very clear about who I am and also what I need. And I think if you're very open and honest about that in the beginning, it makes it easier, but it doesn't make it easy. And the pool continues to shrink the more my world changes. Because a guy that was like a mentor for me always described me as a moving target, he's like, Reggie, we're moving targets, bruv. Like, it's never going to be easy because you continue to learn.”
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“Absolutely For the same reason that you are. It's the truth. It's the truth. And I have a feeling everything I'm about to say you will identify with. And that is Disclaimer, everything I'm about to say will probably make me sound like a massive Pratt, so please don't judge. Not like a lot of people because of the life that you've chosen for yourself and more importantly the person that you've had to be to become the person that you are, which as a result means that your dating pool is small because if we're talking about someone beyond being attractive and needing to have the value system or the outlook and this is the really difficult thing, the understanding that you require. It suddenly becomes incredibly hard, and one of the stumbling blocks I found”
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“Because you've worked so hard. You've now made it easier for your child And are you going to be mad at that Because things are easier, how do you raise that child with the same values”
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“But the difficult thing about that is, and this is the conversation I'm having a lot, you know, talk about people becoming fathers. Of my friends are from a similar background, you know, black, white, and different, you know, whatever. Children of immigrants or white working class. Now that they have worked hard and found a level of success and are now becoming the parents, the lives that their children have will be worlds apart from the struggle that they experience. How do you navigate that relationship with your kid who fall intents and purposes is”
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“Employs 3,000 plus people, the people that work there all look like me and my family, and they are being given an opportunity to not only have a career, but be paid properly. And it's on Amazon Fresh and it's in wait chosen people here are enjoying it in the summer, not thinking about it, but what it's actually doing is incredible. It's changed the community. And this is something that I'm connected to. So, whatever it is I do now, if it doesn't align with my purpose, I don't want to be involved”
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“That these kids understand fame and what they're searching for, you know, and also recognizing that I'm someone who's hosted reality TV. And I have a really strange and unique relationship with it. So my point is regardless of what it is I'm doing, I care about it. I care about it. And that's anything from content to product. I have a dairy-free ice cream, you know, that sounds ridiculous, but I have a dairy-free ice cream. I'm a creative director and business partner on Blue Skies. But this is a dairy-free ice cream that is made in Ghana.”
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“Comes from a place of passion. So, for instance, I made talking about social media and all the rest of it, I made a drama for the BBC called Make Me Famous, which was a standalone one-hour drama about the relationship between fame, social media and suicide. And I created a character who was a reality TV star who, after being on a hit show, suddenly his star begins to fade. And there is a newer, younger, sexier version of him who's getting all the accolades and love. And suddenly his rates going through the floor and what that does to him on a mental health level. And the conversations and research that I was like embedded within the build up to writing the screenplay were incredibly eye-opening for me because I was talking to stars from reality TV past and present and hearing the difference between people who've been on reality TV 15 years ago and today was heartbreaking, you know, and seeing the”
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“You know what it is? It's looking at your diary, and I'm sure you have a similar thing. You look at your calendar for the day and you go, What am I actually doing today? And we've all had those days where you see something in the calendar that you don't want to do. Seldom do I have those days. Very rare that I have something that I don't want to do. Professionally, particularly. And I'm really excited by that. And I'm proud of that. Everything that I'm invested in professionally.”
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“And you're figuring out who the hell you are as a person, how are you managing, bro? I wasn't allowed to have that conversation on Radio One, but I was in my documentaries And every form has its limitations, which is why documentaries have grown into filmmaking. Because now I can actively write the conversation as opposed to sitting down with someone hoping that they're going to give me the soundbite that makes that, you know, makes that exciting for the audience. Now I can write it. And through some of my experiences in factual and life, I'm able to create people and create characters that are flawed and interesting enough that trigger conversations in the way that I would hope to do in the approach to making a documentary. Whereas with a film, drama specifically, I'm able to literally lay it out and create it on my own terms.”
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“Same thing with radio, you know, I host radio for 10 years. I was at Radio One for a decade, and I walked away. I left hosting the chart show, not because I was fired, but because I decided it wasn't right for me anymore because I stopped learning. And for me, it's always been about what are you learning, how much are you enjoying this? And does this align with where you are as a human being? Does this align with your passions? Does this align with what you care about? And you touched on it yourself earlier in the conversation when I recognized that I didn't want to talk to Harry Styles for 30 seconds about the new video I wanted to ask how the hell are you managing all of this you're nine years old Like, mate, how are you managing this? There are grown women that are hunting you down. Sexually”
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“And also, I look after a lot of people and I help a lot of people and I support people. So I've always wanted to do that. So money has always been important in that sense, but it's never been important because I'm going to show you.”
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“I've never chased it, which is probably why my account hates my guts. Know, I walked away from primetime TV that is a very rare air in terms of the amount of people that get to host those shows that get millions and millions of viewers and also the payment that comes with it I didn't enjoy hosting those shows. I didn't enjoy being in that space. I didn't enjoy being told what to do and say. Essentially, was being asked to not be me. And that didn't work for me. And in walking away from that and focusing on documentaries, I walked away from a lot of money. And knowing that I was going to take a hit financially, ultimately being able to get to the place that I am now as a filmmaker was something I was very aware of. So money has never been a driver for me, but it's been something that I've been conscious on because you've got to live right.”
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