. >> you have a wrapper, which is the kuba cloth wonderful designs and beauty of the cloth is that it >> right some of these can be as long as 40 feet. >> exactly. >> so i would thing when you wrap it around -- think when you wrap it around multiple times. >> the more fabric or textile you work with, it is a status symbol,. >> put it on me. >> okay. >> layer it on. >> i want to try something real sweet this is a feathered collar the beautiful thing about the kuba the elements i love about them they use shells in their work >> i noticed that. >> as well as the grass and feathers. >> natural stuff as far as supplies go. >> exactly. >> you use your environment, what is available what is around you. >> that is really neat. >> and i am taking a contemporary spin on the traditional way the kuba cloth is worn. i have like a shawl,. >> whoa. >> this is cool i don't want to cover up my mic but is there a necklace? or feathers enough. >> feather is enough. >> okay. >> so do i look okay? >> fabulous. >> yes so you would just walk around town like this s greet everybody this is what they wear. >>

oscar winning actor, kuba.> thanks for being here. >> thank you so much. >> how was it to play in a movie about a subject you had already done? 1995 you did the hbo special, tuskegee airmen. a great movie. but this "red tails" movie, something they worked on for 23 years, were you nervous about doing a similar subject? >> the keys were the words george lucas. the first time it was an hbo thing and the production was based on the racism they dealt with in tuskegee, alabama. but this was done by by george lucas and i knew it would be an event picture. >> by the way, you know, i thought james earl jones, i read a quote he made about this film. he said that "red tails" is like star wars for black kids. >> right on, james, right on! >> what he meant like that, it puts a person in the cockpit and makes them feel like they are a part of this remarkable story ever the tuskegee airmen. >> that's exactly right. we shot in prague in the czech republic. you saw vin tinge 1943 military airbase. that's what we recreated. the