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  • >> Jams: NOW USHER, YOU SHARED A THROWBACK PHOTO OF YOU

  • HERE.

  • LOOK AT-- THIS IS USHER RIGHT HERE.

  • >> WHAT IS EVEN HAPPENING.

  • >> James: I MEAN WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER ABOUT THIS.

  • >> FIRST OF ALL, THERE IS A REALLY IMPORTANT FACT ABOUT THIS

  • PHOTO.

  • YOU LOOK AT MY BROTHER.

  • THAT IS JAY, RIGHT, SO MY MOTHER WOULD ONLY PUT US IN SHORTS AS

  • KIDS.

  • THIS IS LIKE THE THING.

  • SHE PUT HIM IN A SAILOR'S OUTFIT.

  • >> James: I KNOW, SHE SOLD YOUR BROTHER OUT ON THIS ONEMENT

  • SHE REALLY DID.

  • >> SHE WOULDN'T ALLOW US TO WEAR FULL PANTS UNTIL LIKE SIX YEARS

  • OLD.

  • SO THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I HAVE EVER WORN SLACKS IN A PHOTO.

  • AND LOOK AT HOW I AM HOLDING MY JACKET.

  • LIKE LOOK, I MADE IT.

  • >> James: NOW YOU BOTH-- YOU SAID IT WAS AROUND THIS AGE IN

  • THE PHOTOS THAT YOU KNEW YOU WERE GOING TO BE A STAR.

  • >> YEAH, WHEN I WAS SIX OR SEVEN.

  • I THINK ALL KIDS HAVE THAT GREAT IMAGINATION OF WHAT THEY WANT TO

  • DO SITTING IN CLASS AND JOTTING AN AUTOGRAPH.

  • ONE DAY I WILL SIGN AN AUTOGRAPH, WHEN PERFORMING IN

  • THE MIRROR.

  • THESE THINGS WE DO.

  • I AM NOT THE ONLY ONE, AM I.

  • >> James: NO, YEAH, YEAH, FOR SURE.

  • YEAH, BUT THAT IS THE DIRCHESZ OF THINKING THAT IS WHAT I WOULD

  • LIKE TO TOW TO DO TO KNOWING YOU WILL BE A STAR.

  • HOW DID YOU HAVE THAT MUCH CONFIDENCE.

  • >> WELL, IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE IT, NO ONE ELSE WILL.

  • (APPLAUSE) RIGHT?

  • BUT IT WAS REALLY MY NANNY WHO REALLY, REALLY SPOKE ABOUT WHAT

  • I COULD BE.

  • YOU CAN DO WHATEVER YOU WANT TO DO.

  • JUST DREAM AND JUST THINK AS BIG AS YOU POSSIBLY CAN.

  • AND I DID.

  • >> James: WHAT ABOUT YOU, ALISON, WHEN DID YOU KNOW THAT

  • YOU WANTED TO BE AN ACTOR.

  • >> I KNEW PRETTY EARLY ON.

  • AND THEN MY-- I KNEW I WANTED TO PERFORM.

  • SO I WAS LIKE IN BALLET, IN THE CHOIR, DOING EVERYTHING I COULD

  • TO GET ON STAGE AND I LOVED IT I WAS LIKE MOM, YOU CAN GET PAID

  • FOR ACTING.

  • IT SOUNDS LIKE A JOB I WOULD WANT.

  • SO SHE WAS LIKE COOL, COOL, THAT SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD IDEA.

  • SO SHE GOT ME A JOB AS A BACKGROUND PERFORMER.

  • KNOWN AS EXTRAS BACK THEN.

  • BEFORE ANY RESPECT WAS OWN INTRODUCED.

  • AND IT INTRODUCED THE IDEA, NOW WHENEVER I SEE A GREEN ROOM THAT

  • IS NOT ACTUALLY PHYSICALLY GREEN, BECAUSE MY FIRST GREEN

  • ROOM WAS GREEN, A REALLY SORDID JIM MOREISON ON POSTER ON THE

  • WALL.

  • AND THIS SHOW DAVID CARI DS DIEB.

  • I WAS DOING THIS MUSEUM THING POINTING AT-- IN THE BACKGROUND.

  • ST A REALLY LONG DAY AND SEEMED REALLY POINTLESS.

  • AND I WAS LIKE THIS IS THE BEST.

  • AND MY MOM WAS LIKE [BLEEP] >> James: ARE YOU BORED,

  • RIGHT.

  • >> NO, THIS IS THE AMAZING,YEAH, YEAH.

>> Jams: NOW USHER, YOU SHARED A THROWBACK PHOTO OF YOU

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