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. >> kerry washington is in it, felicia rashad is in it. our friend whoopi goldberg.didn't interact with them a lot off the set. why not? >> staying in character. >> larry: you did that? >> really wanting to stay in character during the duration, every moment even. like i said, she wants nothing to do with the ghetto and her past life. she worked too hard to get out of that. and keeping these balls up. so i would hear the girls, you know, cackling and talking. and a part of me wanted to be a part of that. but to remain true to the character, i stayed away. >> larry: so when you stay in character, as many great actors have told me they do that, did you also bring it home? >> there are times when you do, you don't just walk away from it. every time one of my friends would say, you know, there's something different about you, the tone in your voice. tyler actually wanted to play it with my tone in post and make it a little lower tone. and i told him, let me try it first on my own and see what happens. so he liked what i did so he just left it at that. >> larry: you like