I'm here to talk about my new movie hustlers and my character, Ramona, becoming Ramona every day.

I think when I got to the set every day, you know, it was about kind of putting on the hair, the tattoos, the piercing, putting on her clothes, her kind of vibe getting into that mindset.

There was a lot that went into Ramona putting on the tattoo of her daughter's name, which actually never see in the movie.

Right here was also a big part of it because, uh, Ramona is a lover.

She's a maternal character.

She's a nurturing character.

Only thing she loves maybe more is the money, which is what made her such an instant interesting character is that she was a very loving, nurturing person, but at the same time, she was a savage and should take you down in a minute.

So that was a lot of fun to play.

I do the same thing every day, workout, take a bath, head to the set.

They give me, like, two hours for her.

Mayko, I make the hair makeup.

People do it in an hour, and I know exactly what everything's gonna take.

Has been doing this a long time.

I just go out there and once I start working, I'm pretty much nonstop.

I don't even go back to the trailer.

I just stay on the set all day long, watching everything that's happening, staying in it.

And then if we have a long break lunch, I'll go to lunch and Mike chill in the trailer and right.

I knew, uh, the whole entire shoot was kind of leading up to me.

Doing the pole dance was which was at the end of filming.

We shot this movie anything in 29 days, which is a miracle.

And for six weeks before the movie even started, I was training for this pole dance, which is Ramona's big entrance in the film.

The first time that you see her that day I was ready.

I was prepared.

I knew my choreography, I knew everything.

I wanted my body to be warmed up loose.

I needed I needed that.

So I went to the gym.

It takes a lot of core strength and a lot more than you would think tow walk in these women's shoes and do what they do every day and every night.

So I got there probably early morning, warmed up some more camera blocked that me and Marine Way had talked about shooting in like, a stunt.

So having a lot of cameras going cause I told her I said out be able to do this But I won't be able to do it 100 times.

Just my physical body and just take it was just too hard, you know, flipping your body over and spinning around and falling down.

It was just I was like, We're gonna have a limited I'll keep doing it until I can't anymore.

But I can't do it forever So we set it up like a stunt.

We shot it with all the cameras facing this way and decide.

And then we shot it from behind and the side.

So we kind of covered it 360 high and low overhead.

So we did it many, many times.

But, you know, again, at one point I was like, Okay, I can't do that part anymore.

Do we have to do that part?

You know, we got that far we got that far.

Then at the end, I won and took a look at it to make sure that she had certain things covered.

If there was something that I wanted to do better than I went into the trailer and put ice on my shoulder for me.

Even when I'm on this said, I try to concentrate on the character, my family, Alex and the kids know they can call me any time.

If I'm literally in front of the cameras, the only time I won't take the call and then it's the minute you yell, Cut!

Somebody tells me the kid's called.

Alex called, and I called him right back.

That never goes away.

Your mom, no matter what.

I talked for them, you know, 1000 times a day in the morning, at night.

If I'm on the set, if they're in school, just depending on where we are, if they're in town with me, obviously I go into their rooms.

When I get home, they always tell me, Make sure you come into my room.

Come, kids me.

Come check on me and I take pictures so they know that I came in there.

I sent it to them in the morning and they see it in case they're gone before I get up or I'm gone before they get up and we we just stay very connected that way.

In between scenes, I just really try to mellow, stay in the moment because they take time to set up the shots.

Sometimes you're sitting there waiting for an hour.

Of all the props that the prop master bought me, there was a a blinged out lighter that I would hold every day.

Sometimes I'd smoke, you know, one of the cigarettes or something, and just kind of stay in the mindset of Ramona.

And it was funny.

The prop master knew right away that that got me into Ramona.

So even in scenes where I wasn't smoking or doing anything, she just hand me the lighter.

All of a sudden, it was a different person.

Every single day I carry around my, um my blinking cup that was given to me for my birthday a couple of years ago.

Now I make one for every single shoot I'm on.

So I have my hustlers.

Ah, blinking cup is just water in there.

That's why I drink a cup of coffee in the morning and then you know, water all day long.

Everybody's like, What do you have in that cup?

You drink it all day long.

They thought I had, like, alcoholic mayor.

That's a little bit throughout the day to keep me going.

No, no, no, it's just water.

That day we shot on Lee.

The first few hours was the dance.

It was actually the day that we had all the girls doing all of the locker room scenes.

So we had Liz on the set, Cardio on the set, Constance on the set, Lily, Kiki trace the whole cast and it was so much fun.

So luckily, I was exhausted after doing the dance.

But then I was like, kind of energized because it was like being in school, like in high school.

And all the girls were in the locker room and we were just having a ball.

And it was Kardian Little's first day on the set.

And so it was exciting.

We started in the morning and we finished our own.

I would say three in the morning.

It was a long shoot day, depending on where we were shooting at the end of the day, you know, take me 10 minutes to get home or an hour to get home, depending on how far outside the city we were shooting.

Once I get home, honestly, I just wash off when you're doing a movie, It pretty much consumes your life, that little world for that little amount of time.

If you're lucky enough to be on the set every day, and that's the job that you have, which I did in this movie, you just in it.

You're just in it.

You got just a few hours to yourself, kind of rejuvenate and sleep and try to be your best again the next day.

For me, probably sleep is the most important thing.

There's one thing I don't like, get interrupted.

If I have a early call, I'll be in bed early.

You know, they give you about it 12 hour turnaround, but usually it's like more like 10 or eight, and so you just have to be disciplined.

I have to be discreet about it.

I come home and I just go to sleep.

I don't gotta take no melatonin, Nothing.

I don't have to read a book.

I don't need a meditation app.

I hit that pillow and I'm out over.

She's done for the day.