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Lauren LaRosa
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Lauren LaRosa
Hey, y', all, it's Lauren LaRosa with the latest with Lauren LaRosa on Black Effect. And I cannot wait to see you guys at the fourth annual Black Effect Podcast Festival. We are coming back to Atlanta, Georgia on Saturday, April 25th at Pullman Yard and it's hosted by me alongside DJ Envy and Charlamagne Tha God. We got Drink Chants with Noriega and DJ fm. We got Keep It Positive Sweetie with my girl Crystal Renee Hayslett. We got Reality with the K with my guide and my brother Carlos King. And y' all know he does reality commentary like nobody can. Now we also have Don't Call Me White Girl, the podcast I Love Mona, and Club520 podcast along with the Grits and Eggs podcast. So this lineup stacked, baby. You're also going to want to check out the panels that we have lined up too, featuring Kev on Stage, Tika Sumpter and John Hope Bryant, just to name a few. Course, it's way bigger than podcast. We're bringing the Black Effect marketplace with black owned businesses, plus the food truck court to keep you fed while you visit us. Okay, listen, you don't want to miss this. Tap in and grab your ticket now@blackffect.com podcast festival. I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything and everybody. You know she don't lie about that, right?
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Lauren LaRosa
Hey, y'. All, what's up? It's Lauren LaRosa. And this is another episode of the Latest with Lauren LaRosa. This is your Nellie Dick on all things pop culture, entertainment news, and all of the conversations that shake the room, baby. So we are back. Fresh week. I've been in Italy for the last five to six days and okay, let's check in behind the scenes of the grind because I am so excited to tell you guys just a little bit about my trip. If you're listening to this and you want to see my trip, I posted a vlog to my YouTube channel showing you guys everywhere I went, everything I ate. It was beautiful. We did the Amafi coast and we, we did the coast. So when I arrived to Italy, we arrived in Napoli or Naples, which is where the big airport is, which is like the city. Definitely looked a lot different than I Expected it to look okay. It just wasn't like what you see, like, on Instagram and Tick Tock and, you know, YouTube of the Amafi coast and how pretty and vibrant it looks. Naples, Nepali is not really that at all. It is very much a city. A lot of graffiti. It's like, the difference between New York or downtown Los Angeles and Napa Valley, where you go for all the wine tasting, like, just very different. A lot of places we went to in Naples because we stayed there for the first day or two of our trip. I went my boyfriend for his birthday. It was his birthday gift. And then we stayed there the last day of the trip. People were like, take your watches off, your jewelry, anything valuable, put it up if you want to be in Naples. And this is, like, not tourist people. Like, this is like, we went to a really famous pizza spot. I'm gonna get the name of the pizza spot. We went to a really famous pizza spot. The pizza spot was called Pizzeria de Michelle. So this pizza spot, like, people wait in line for hours to try their pizza. We were lucky. We got there kind of early, and we didn't wait for hours. We waited for about 20 minutes, and then we went in, tried the pizza. The pizza was amazing. But as we were leaving this pizza spot, there was, like, this street that was, like, playing music and, you know, all these things. Now, this is in Naples. This is our last day there. Just to kind of give you an example of what I'm talking about. So we walk up the street. We're in, like, this small. It's like an. Like a. Like, side street, like a hill. But there's, like, a smaller restaurant, and they're seating outside, and, you know, there's a bunch of people outside out there. Everyone's doing the spritz, the April Apparel spritz. That's, like the signature drink there, of course. So we sit down, just have a drink, and just enjoyed the last night. We had been chilling like that last, like, 24 to 48 hours because we had done so much by that point. And when we went inside of the store to pay for our stuff before we left, just to go back to our hotel to just relax and get ready for a flight. Literally, everybody in the store, like, the owner of the store or the restaurant got up, closed the door. It was like three to four people. They were like. Like, they were telling my boyfriend, like, take your watch off. They were like, I'd had, like, a small bag. They're like, keep your bag on you. You know, anything in your Pockets. Take it out of your pockets. Our taxi drivers were also telling us that when we were in Naples in the train station. So Naples was just a lot different than what we expected, but we still had a great time there. Nothing that nothing bad happened to us, thank God. Had a great time. But we leave Naples the first day that we stayed there, like I said, and we ended up there the. The last couple nights. First day we stayed there. We leave. We head on over to Capri now. Capri. Beautiful. But Capri is a bit like it. You know, there's a lot of the luxury shopping there, and there's, like, all these, like, boutiques. Like, you know, I. Clothing is my thing. I love fashion, but I really love to see, like, handmade pieces. So there were a lot of, like, school small boutiques and local boutiques and local leather shops and, oh, my God, it was just amazing to see all of the, like, artistry through, like, you know, the different, like, muumus and jackets and, you know, just all of the different designs that we saw. And they were everywhere. Everywhere you walked. And Capri was another beautiful shop. A ceramic shop, a jewelry shop, and of course, they had all of the luxury stores as well, too. We ate in Capri at another really popular restaurant. We had a travel guy. We had two travel guides. You know, one of my friends, her name on Instagram, or her traveling Instagram name, like, she travels all throughout various countries, the Traveling Chucks. And she put together a lot of our itinerary. And then I also had a secondary itinerary done by, like, a luxury travel planner that I had met. So they hooked us up with a restaurant reservation in Capri and also helped set up, like, some of the shopping that we did. So that was the first day. It was beautiful. We also did, like, a taxi, like, you know, rooftop car ride, you know, throughout the coast of Capri, which was so beautiful. We got to see the water. The weather there was not as warm as you would think that it is. The weather was very much like New York. It's like springtime, like, but just getting into it, right? So it's, like, warm a bit during the day. You definitely need, like, a hoodie or something on your arms, cooler at night. But from what I was told, this is, like, the beginning of their season. Like, you know, as it gets warmer, people begin to travel. Things open up. There's a lot more to do on the coast. We left Capri, and then we went to Rome. Rome was amazing. In Rome. We got to see the Coliseum. We got to see We. We were trying to make it over to what we did. We rode throughout the vet. We rode throughout Vatican City. We did like a big bus tour. So we got to see a lot of like, just various artifacts throughout Rome and just Rome itself. The city of Rome was also very beautiful. One of the things that I noticed the most about Rome was all of the, like, the graffiti there was like, so political. Like, there were a lot of, like, because, you know, there's, you know, there's places where like, you know, the Pope, you know, various things went down with the Pope and just very religious grounds and in cathedrals and different places that we would stop at. And every time I would look around, I would see these political messages on the walls, like, you know, harmed people deserve to harm people. Or I would see free Gaza, I would see free Palestine. Everywh. Like, that was one of the things that stood out most to me about Rome, but also the architecture of the buildings and just, I don't know, like, everywhere we went, I was trying to get a feel for the people and just like, you know, like, how they were different than people in other cities that we were experiencing. But all in all, Rome was beautiful as well. We actually decided last minute to spend a night in Rome and then woke back up, got back on the train and went back to Naples and to then take a car ride up the coast of Amafi to Amafi. So on the Amafi coast, there is a small town called Amafi. We stayed there and we actually stayed on, like, a countryside. Like, we drove for about an hour into the mountains, which was so beautiful. And it was very different than any city we had been into because it wasn't a city. It was literally like countryside. So we are at this little, like, I would almost call it not a bed and breakfast, but I would call it that, but it was. It was like luxury. Like, it was very homey, small staff. The rooms were made literally, like made up for you as they know that you were coming. Small balcony that overlooked the place. In this place where we stayed, they specialize in, like, ceramic making. So the floors, the ceilings, tile in the bathroom, everything was just so beautiful. Like everywhere we went. I don't care if it was Naples, if it was Rome. Everywhere we went, there was so much attention to detail and all of the architecture and, you know, the way things were put together and the, the. The decorations and the flooring and the walls and the ceilings, even the shapes of the windows at the restaurants and the hotels that we were saying, like, oh, my God, it was Just, it was like something out of, like, a picture book. Like, everything just didn't look real. Everything looked like it does when you see, like, pictures of Rome on, like, a computer or, you know, like in a history book or something like that. Or Rome, Naples, Capri, like, they just. It just didn't look real. Was so beautiful to experience. And. And so we. We spent a evening there, which was so relaxing, and it was just very different than anything else we've ever experienced. But it was so fire, because I think it was good to see the city life, the various entities of the city life, Rome, which, you know, there was so much history there that we got to learn and see in real life. And then now we're on the countryside, where, like, literally they grow everything themselves. So all of the food that we were eating, the vegetables, there was like a lemon farm, you know, right there. Like, when you walked out your balcony, there was a lemon farm as well, too. Everything was just fresh, and everything was amazing. And then we got up, headed back to Naples, where we ended our trip. One of the biggest feelings while in Italy is the feeling of love. Like, it was just so positive. And a lot of times we were the only black people in the majority of the places where we were going. And I was one. I was asking, I'm like, where is black culture here? Like, does that. Like, where. Where are we here in this atmosphere of, like, you know, all these different cities, especially when we were on the tour. And I'm like, I'm seeing all this beautiful architecture. I'm like, I know we coming to mix on here because this is what we do. But even though we were the only black people, it didn't. Not that it didn't feel like it, but we weren't treated that way. And when I went to Paris, it was a completely different experience. Just in general, just the way that we were received, you know, how nice people were, or lack thereof, and lack thereof more than how nice they were. It was just a completely different experience. But, yeah, the trip was amazing. And I was so excited while in Italy because I knew that I wanted to go see you, me, in Tuscany, which came out in theaters on April 10th. And I knew that the background of the movie was Italy, even though it's Tuscany, a different part of Italy, I just knew that it was Italy. So I was excited to actually get to experience Italy and then go and watch this film. So we're going to get on into the latest because I want to have a conversation about the movie. You, me and Tuscany, a black Led rom com featuring Halle Bailey and Reggae Jean Page. And you guys know, I mean, you know Holly Bailey because I mean she is an amazing singer. She also played the Little Mermaid in the Disney Recreation recently. You know her and Chloe Bailey all over the place. And then Reggae Jean Page. You guys know him, Bridgerton.
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Lauren LaRosa
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Lauren LaRosa
Now these two as actors are not without a little diversity pushback. You know, Haley went through it when it was announced that she would be the new Little Mermaid and there were tons of people who felt like the Little Mermaid shouldn't be black and reggae. Jean Page went through it because he played a male lead in Bridgerton and that was conversation around, you know, just him in that role and how historically that wasn't a thing. But Shonda Rhimes, you know, she, China Rhymes is going to make it do what it do for us and she does a melting pot in all of her shows. But you know, I wouldn't say that there is push back when it comes to the movie, you, me and Tuscany and I did go and see it. But there is conversation that happened and this conversation, to be honest with you guys, wasn't even on purpose. But it, it's one of those things that like even if the, you know, even if the conversation had not have happened the way that it went down and we're going to talk about it, it was being had anyway. Like it was, it was literally being had anyway or going to be had anyway. So Variety did an article and the article is titled why the Box Office for you Me in Tuscany Matters. It says audiences have the power to dictate what gets made in Hollywood, says producer Will Packer. Will Packer, who was on Girls Trip and a ton of other amazing movies along with his team and Shayla Cohen and all of the brilliant minds over there at Will Power. Will Packer Productions, you know, are, are some of the driving forces behind this movie now. I went and saw the movie. The movie was amazing. You. You know, like I said, I actually was excited to experience the film because being fresh out of an Italy trip, you really understand the essence of the culture there a bit. You know, the feeling, the people, the food, a lot of the things you'll visually see like the sunsets and sunrises in the countryside. It's just, like I said, Italy is just. It's literally. It looks like something from out of a book. Like something. It doesn't even look real. And, and the film captured that. Even in the film. I went to go see it with a. A friend who had never been to Italy. And just some of the shots in the film and the way that it was colored, you know, his first question to me was, oh my God, this looks like something out of a book. Is that how it is? And I'm like, yes, in real life. But it was amazing that he was feeling that through a movie screen because a lot of times movies don't capture the real essence of the actual place and culture where they're being shot. So they did an amazing job at that. But the storyline is basically h. Haley Belly's character goes through some hard times in life and family. I'm not going to give the movie away. Just the logline and ends up squatting in this house in Italy after meeting this guy who is from Italy. And the love, the romance and the funny unfolds from there. And it was just that you fell in love with Halle Bailey in her role. You fell in love with who she fell in love with. You know, you went on the twists and turns of oh my God, what's going to happen next? You, you went on the twists and turns of oh my God, is this all about to be over for them? And then the feeling of, wow, I'm so happy. It is the essence of a rom com. It was such a warm storyline, but also too, it was just good to see her and Reggae John. Like to see them just glowing and happy in this film. Even through like the ups and the downs that they took you through, they were. It was like watching them experience life and experience the things that they. And it's so hard to talk about it, but I'll give no film away. And the way that they do it is so jovial. It's, it's, it's so upbeat. It's just, it's just a feel good film. Like, it just makes you feel good to go see it. From the setting of Italy to the food to the cooking. You know, family was a big element. Grief was a big element and you still felt good. Throughout all of that, you felt hope. The film did what it needed to do. Y' all need to go see if
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Lauren LaRosa
Now, the conversation that that is, you know, has been sparked by this is how important this film is in the box office for other black creators. Now, there was a director, her name is Nina Lee. And there was a tweet that was posted by another person, Jazz Jasmine Sinclair. And she tweeted, the studios are going to watch us during the opening weekend of you, Me in Tuscany. They want to see if an original screenplay does well. They want to see if a black rom com does well. I know we can show up and support this movie. This is the movie that we have been waiting for. So Nina Lee retweeted, please go see this film on March 25, right? So last week, sometime a few weeks ago, she then tweeted and said, nina Lee, she says, number one, I met with the studio about my already shot rom com and they won't buy it until they see you, me and Tuscany. Now, the rom com that she is referring to is a rom com that she had already shot that she had already been pitching and it features Coco Jones, music artist Coco Jones and comedian Country Wayne. And she says, you know, that it was already shot, that it was stuck in limbo of post production. And they told her that they won't buy it until they see you me in Tuscany and see how it does. Then she says, number two, she met with an exec about a romance script that she has. They won't buy it until they see how you, me and Tuscany does. And number three, she reminds people to go see this film. Now, the, the irony of this is that Nina, who is a filmmaker, was actually about to go and speak to a room full of high school students in, in Atlanta and she was going to be advising them on how to navigate Hollywood. And this is the, this is like the thing that gets it for me. It's like the duality that we have to have as black people, right? Because it's like we always have to be not careful how we speak about things because, like, I feel like, you should be honest, but it's like you don't wanna. You don't wanna speak to your people in a way that is gonna discourage someone from maybe becoming the next Spike Lee or becoming the next Nina Lee. Right? But at the same time, you are sitting in this world that is like, okay, your art is good some days, sometimes. But not right now. Well, maybe tomorrow once we see how something similar to it does. Because, oh, all of you guys are the same. And if one movie and one storyline and one feel good hug movie does well, all the rest of yous are going to be okay. Which is not realistic. Even when you, me and Tuscany does well, that movie, it doesn't speak for every black person and how every black person wants to be shown on a big screen. But if you're needing to leave, you're now stuck in this position where you're headed to go speak to these students. You want to inspire them. Because we, I mean, look, the world needs storytellers, good ones, you know, because we need plumbers, electricians and doctors and all that too. But the good storytellers, the world does need them. Especially in times like this where a lot of us are being taken out of these positions. A lot of our black, you know, editors and chiefs or writers or arms of these big magazines that focus directly on black things are being taken out of here. So as the new era of creators arise and, you know, we are going to start seeing that happen without the majors, without the platforms and people doing it on, on their own, Somebody got to inspire the people. So you're headed out to go speak to these kids. But internally you're in this limbo because the same industry that you've always wanted to be a part of, that you've had success in, because she has had success with other things. Right. Is telling you not right now. I don't care about the bills you gotta pay. I don't care about the fact that, you know, black people are in a monolith. Just not right now.
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Lauren LaRosa
Now you, me and Tuscany is projected to do more than $10 million to start, which is a solid start for them because coming in with the 18 million dollar budget according to Variety. But at the same time, I mean if the conversation that happens, because this conversation happens every single time something black is headed to the theater, but especially romcom. Because in recent years studios have kind of like got away from romcoms, right? But especially black LED ones. But there have been studies that have kind of pointed at the fact that like Hollywood is not really paying attention to their own information. So there was a study that was done that a lot of, you know, these articles that are having this discussion are pointing to. And I went and took a look at the study and I'm like, it's so crazy because basically what this study is saying is that the goal post keeps moving, which we already know. But until you have numbers, nothing matters. Like even Will Packer, he was speaking to Variety, he had no issue with Nina Lee's tweets. He said what they're going to do for you with you, me and Tuscany. And what they need to do is going to help creators like her, right? So Will Packer spoke to Variety about the tweet and he says, and about the movie, you, me and Tuscany. And he says when it comes to you, me and Tuscany predicting the future for films like it, if the dollars don't make sense, if the dollars make sense, then you'll see more of it. And if Hollywood and Hollywood would change and adjust. So I'm trying to do my part to be successful in a language that Hollywood understands, which is really not the language of social justice, it's the language of economics, the numbers. And that's why I'm like, it's crazy to me that you know, Hollywood is such a numbers business. And I get it because it's all about give and take, it's all about the investment and the return. But there was a report done in 2025 by a university by, I'm sorry, by Dr. Anna Christina Ramon. She's one of the co authors of UCLA, Hollywood's diversity report. Now in this report from 2025, they point out the fact that it's not the issue of if black moviegoers will go support a black led movie because numbers show that we do. And this has been proven time and time and time and time again, right? So according to her report, Bipik Men and unambiguously made up the largest audience share for 10 of these films. So they're looking at a list of 20 theatrical films from 2024. So 20 theatrical films from 2024 is the list of those 20 films. Ten of these films, Right? So that's half of the list. Black indigenous or people of color? Us. Okay, us. Some of us men made up the largest audience share for 10 of those films. Right. And then bipic women, Black indigenous, people of color women accounted for the largest audience shares for another six of the femmes. So that's 16. That's the majority of the list that we show up for. White women and white men each made up the largest audience share for just one of these top 20 films. According to this study, if audiences are aware that a black led movie exists, they will go see it, which presents the first hurdle for black led films to overcome. Which is why as much as people want to say, well, you could put things straight to streaming, or you could put things straight to Amazon, or, you know, I mean, Amazon is streaming, but you could put things straight to wherever. Right? The. The reason why people like these, these filmmakers want to get studios behind them, because when you get studios behind them, you get budgets, you get dollars. In order for you to really see a return, people have to know to want to come out. Budgets and dollars go into production costs, marketing costs, distribution density, all of these things that help to push a movie. And the more that people know about it, the more that people will come out. Listen, we want to stay locked in and see how the numbers work with you, me, and Tuscany to see the impact that it has. But if I were a studio, after seeing what Sinners just did with getting people back to the box office, I would. I'm betting on everything black if I'm a studio. But again, again, even when the numbers make sense, the goal post moves. I hope that you, me, and Tuscany does exactly what it's supposed to do. And it is a great film. I'm not just saying that because of this conversation. It is actually a great film. I suggest everyone goes out and see it. But when it does what it's supposed to do, what I hope we see is other people getting a shot. But we always hope this. Issa Rae said this years ago. I'm rooting for everybody black. And a lot of us have always been rooting for everybody black. Some of us are new, you know what I mean, to coming on over here. And I huff and puff when I say that, because it's sad to have to say that, but all skin folk ain't kinfolk. And we know that. But some of us are new over here. But when you see what movies like Sinners just did this last year, if I'm a studio, I am itching for not just the next black Sinners. And even that we're gonna see if that happens again. Because in this conversation I saw there were some tweets from one of the. There was a director who had shot his shot for an Asian, like, rom com type of movie and he was responding to Nino because basically when Nina Lee, that director, tweeted that tweet and put her phone away and went and spoke to that class, she went so viral because like movie fan sites like Pop Crave and stuff picked it up. So people started having conversations about, you know, directors and producers about what they were experiencing. Fans, commentators, like, it went crazy viral, right? So there was a. A Asian director who basically said that he had shot his shot for film and was told kind of the same thing, but the Asian version, like, oh, well, you know, this was some years ago. Like, oh, we want to see how crazy rich Asian does. And then we're a circle back. And then when it did well, he went back to the studio and the studio was like, oh, well, that was basically an anomaly. Like, that won't happen again. And I feel like that's what they're going to try and do and say about Sinners as well too. Like, the more we push. Because with Jordan Peele and a lot of the things that Jordan Peele was doing and how well you know, those movies were doing, no matter where you went and saw them, I feel like they still tried to make it seem like it was like a one off and couldn't be done. And then, I mean, even. Even with Ryan Coogler, like, I think what Ryan Coogler did with Black Panther, you would have thought that studios really understood where and how we should be positioned from that. And then, you know, he comes back and does what he does with Sinners and there are people still having conversations about how amazing this is. And it's like, D ain't new to this. Halle Bailey actually commented on Nina Lee's tweet as well and talked about how unfair all of this pressure on black films in theaters is. Take a listen.
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Halle Bailey
There was this writer director named Nina
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Lauren LaRosa
Lee who basically shared online that she
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Halle Bailey
had this rom com already shot and
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Lauren LaRosa
went to go like, pitch it in Hollywood to execs.
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Halle Bailey
And they basically told her that they were gonna wait on it until they saw the performance of Yumi and Tuscany. Did you see this news? I did See this?
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Lauren LaRosa
How did that make you feel being
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Halle Bailey
the star of this film? I think it's amazing to be a black creator. And I think Nina is doing something, something so wonderful in the art that she's creating. And I feel like it almost isn't fair for us to have to, like, you know, oh, well, we're gonna watch how this one does, and then we'll greenlight you. Like, it shouldn't be like that at all. But I do think that we are known for breaking barriers and not letting anything stop us as a community. And I think that even when the goal posts may be moved every single time, we still will persevere, no matter.
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Lauren LaRosa
So we'll see what happens. I'll keep you guys posted for sure. I know that the talent from the movie have been out doing a bunch of interviews, so we'll stay abreast of that as well, too. Please go see the film. Let me know how you guys feel about the film. I'm Lauren LaRosa. Everywhere. I want to hear from you. Join the conversation. Get out in the streets in the tweets. That's L O R E N L O R O S a. I'm Lauren LaRosa. This has been another episode of the Latest with Lauren LaRosa. This is your daily dig on all things pop culture and entertainment news and all of the conversations that shake the room. My lowriders. I appreciate you guys every single time you're here to talk with me about all of the things. I'll see you in my next episode.
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