the wonderful actress, anik anika noni rose. welcome back. good to see you always. >> good to be here. >> last we talked, you were gearing up for this, getting excited about it. i am told that you are more than excited. fair to say? >> i'm very excited. i would say ecstatic. i would very well claim ecsta c ecstatic. >> i know when we talked about it, you were on another project and we were literally done with the shoot and i said hey, i hear you're going to be a princess and you talked about what you thought it was going to be like. that expectation and the reality of it, compare the two. >> it's been bigger than i imagined it was going to be. i think there was no gearing up for the level of specialness, for lack of a better word, of what this is and what it means to society as a whole, our country as a whole. because when you touch children, you change things. so when we talk about the level of self-affirming for black children that see this movie. and then you think about their friends who may or may not be black, but who see their friends.