TRANSCRIPT:
MARLEY (audience member): This is a one woman show and it was so, I’m assuming, difficult to produce. Why a one woman show and not an entire group of people?
FANSHEN: Freaking Hollywood. Because, you know, I’ve been out here for a long time and wanted to be an actor and especially when I first got out here my agent would say, “Oh you got an audition,” and I’d have to ask, “Well is it for Black or White?” Because then I’d decide how I’d wear my hair…and I finally was like, “I need to tell my own damn story.” Because nobody else is going to do it for me, nor should they because they can’t – and so that was a big reason for it. If I’m going to tell this story, I’m going to do justice for myself. I’m going to do some self-care and get to play myself.
And I encourage everyone, particularly women, particularly folks whose stories you don’t get to see: write your own damn story. I’m tired of the system. I’m TIRED of the system. And we don’t have to work within it anymore. We have access to so many different…I mean that’s why I was so determined to have women on this shoot. We can DO this. We can do this. So tell your story, Girl! TELL it.
