What's your best celebrity story from "Ladder 49"'s set?
The scene [I filmed] with Morris Chestnut and Robert Patrick. That morning, I wasn't even thinking I was going to be chosen to work because they had already selected other extras. They were working and we were watching them, me and my friend I had met on set, Ms. Queenie. Then they called for the next team, and I was one of the extras that they selected.
I was told that I was going to run out of this burning building. In the scene, there's Morris Chestnut, and he's running up the ladder, and then Robert Patrick, he's getting the hose off the [fire] truck. So a guy told me, "You run up the steps and then come running out of the house. When they say action, run out." So when the cameras are rolling, I'm standing there waiting for the cue for me to run because the house was on fire, and when they say action, I come running out. I don't know what it looked like, but I know what it felt like. I felt like I was like Foxy Brown or Pam Grier running out that house.
When it was done, I guess I did good because Robert Patrick, he clapped and said, "Good job. You did a good job."
How was it being an extra on that film compared to your first movie?
I was a lot more calm. I toned it down a lot. I was no longer the "extra, extra." I was cool. But people who did the casting, I was starting to get noticed. And it's weird, because when I worked on that scene with Chestnut and Patrick, there were professional actors, but when we were done, they were like, "Who are you? What's your name?" They were curious about who I was, and I was shocked.
