The Breakfast Club - INTERVIEW: LeToya Luckett On Staring In 'I Thought My Husband's Wife Was Dead,' Destiny's Child Reunion + More

Episode Date: July 25, 2024

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Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Just Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club we got a special guest in the building yeah she has a new movie premiering saturday august 3rd i thought my husband's wife was dead ladies and gentlemen latoya lucky good morning good morning how you feeling i'm up okay bless me with another day. I'm up. There you go. I love this hair. Thank you. Yes. Thank you. It's so good to hear your voice and see everybody. You know, I keep looking at the title of this movie,

and I just can't figure out what it's about. You know what? I thought the same thing when I read the script. I was like, what? Actually, it was intriguing. I was like, okay, what is this really about? And I guess I'll go into that. My character, Victoria, I'll start there.

Vicky was presumed dead. And when she shows back up, she just wreaks havoc. So she shows back up to her current husband's home and is greeted by his new wife. I'll say that. Current husband or ex-husband? No, it's current. It's current.

Okay. That's why you got to watch the movie. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So she shows up to her current husband's home and meets his new wife. Five years. I mean, in real life, would you be upset if your man moved on?

If he thought that I was presumed dead, no, I wouldn't be upset about that. I wouldn't be upset about that. I wouldn't be upset about that. I mean, because obviously life goes on, and I wouldn't want to, I wouldn't want to make him feel like, you know, he can't move on with his life. He, you know, can't find love again. I think that's a bit

unfair. I don't think I could as a man. Unless I knew for sure. No, I don't think I could. There was no body. Yeah, I would have to know for sure. Yeah. But see, that's the thing. That's why you gotta watch the movie, because this is a different, this is different. Yeah. No, I don't think I could. Because there was no body. Yeah, I would have to know for sure. Yeah, yeah. But see, that's the thing. That's why you got to watch the movie, because this is different. Yeah. It depends on the situation. It does depend on the situation.

Now, if my significant other passed on and this wasn't the case, then no, I'm not going to say he can't marry or not go in peace knowing that he would probably remarry in the next couple of years. Do you feel like Tori came back a little too entitled? No. No? Oh, no, not at all. No? No, she came back to get what was hers.

Absolutely well deserved. I mean, you were talking life insurance policy. You were talking everything that was in that house. Run me. Run me? Run me my funds. But we thought you were dead. Yeah, what's that?

But I ain't. Hello. Good to see you. Run me my funds. Oh, no, no, no, no. We got to. And I think, you know, I do see both sides. You know, I understand that they probably thought,

okay, we can move on with our lives. We can invest here. We can invest there. But I think obviously when she shows back up, it's like, OK, this does belong to her. This came from her father. You know what I mean? Is this really mine? I'm going to at that point say, OK, whatever we got to do to fix this and whatever makes you comfortable, because obviously you've probably been through some things. However, we can help, I'm here for it.

But I don't necessarily know if she was greeted with that energy. It's hard to talk about the movie without people seeing it. It really is without spoiling it. And just spoiling it. Exactly. And don't be the watcher that watches for 30 seconds and be like, okay, what's next? No, you have to be invested in this movie

because it's not a slow-moving movie at all. As a matter of fact, it's going to catch you immediately. But I feel like in order for you to really get into it, you have to put some things down, sit there and actually watch, engage, and then

I think your mind is going to be blown by the end of the movie. You have to have a little crazy in you to do this character I have to tap into something you tapped into something but the thing about being an actor you can't judge the character so I couldn't go into this thing saying well Toya wouldn't do that or would Toya really say that or I can't do that so I and the reason I decided to play this character is because I felt her story deserved to be told and there are people out here not going through something as extreme as this but people that are maybe suffering in silence or you know they feel they're being treated unfairly in a

marriage or any kind of relationship and they don't have the guts to speak up about it so I enjoy playing roles you know like this and I wanted to feel stretched I wanted to this was something that was out of the ordinary for me I've played the well to do wife who has it all together I got in there and I was like strip me down I want to look absolutely crazy and when I was sending photos

from set to like my family members they were like okay wait let me show up where you at you look nuts you ever got that crazy in a real relationship you ever at all had to get a little crazy you know what's so funny uh-oh at the airport just yesterday oh you got crazy yesterday i was looking i didn't get crazy yesterday i was looking through my phone for something and i saw that i had stored like a side chick's number from my ex-boyfriend in my phone. I was like, why do I still have this? You forgot to call her?

I never called her. Yeah. But why do I even have this in here? Because you wanted to call her. It was just in case. Yeah. Just in case. But I had to have a little bit of offness.

There was a little bit of something. How long was it in your phone though? Why does that mean offness though? It's been there. Maybe. Before COVID? Wait. I'm'ma say 2007. jesus that's why i was like why is i know i've had several phones since this did you feel like just texting and be like hey you still with them i'm not but i just want to know you know did it work out for y'all it did not it did it did not he is no i don't

think he's a settling type but i just feel like like I had to have a little bit of something off. I don't think that means you off. Why did I have it, though? Because you wanted to call her and see what was going on. Woman to woman. I'm just calling you woman to woman. I was ready to go for the woman to woman conversation. Right.

But I'm also the type that I'm like, I'm not even going to give you that type of energy. Like, okay, I'm not going to be in no competition for no man or anybody. So if you want him, sis, and if he wants you, by all means. Got you. You know, y'all have that. Did you erase the number? I did not. We should go.

Just in case. Just in case. I should go and handle that. If she's a well-known side chick, you never know. She's not. She was very – and at the end of the day, me and her probably could have been friends. She's super sweet, quiet to herself, you know, no issue.

Why the hell you know all of this about this woman? You didn't get a whole profile check on her? No, I mean. She's a Virgo. Social security number is, you know. No, no, I did, yeah. We get off that. But yeah, I thought about that last night.

Now, not to give away too much of the movie, but would the money that you were owed make up for everything that happened to you? No. Okay. Oh, no, this woman was terrorized. Okay. It was awful. Like, I can't even begin to describe the things that she went through.

She went through some things. So, no, money doesn't make up for it, but, I mean, it's the best they can do. I mean, you can't make up for time. You can't get time back. And she lost, what, six years? She lost five, six years. You can't get that time back. You know, there were things that she wanted to do in her life.

She was, you know, she wanted to have children. She wanted to, you know, do things with her business. All these, she can't get that time back. Yeah, you can't buy that time back. Yeah, you can't buy that time back. Jess, because I saw you scolding somebody. Who was you? That was the dog or Ashton just now? No, it was Naya.

She's trying to eat in the living room, but everything's suede in there, so I told her to go in the kitchen. Okay, but go ahead. I saw you had a question. She got that mama face on. Exactly. She got this baby about to drop fix.

I am over it. I'm cooked. Look, I can't even. No, what I love about the movie is that you actually played Vicky or Tori goes through all the traumas

like losing our parents early and then being kidnapped and almost killed and all of that what did you do what were your methods to get into this role because you said you had to tap in but that's all you said can you expound on it like what what are some things that you that you had to do to get ready for this because it's a pretty serious role very very very um I did like do some

research and um look up things on because I I didn't get the chance I really wanted to go and sit with some women who would, even if they were in shelters, like to talk to women who had been through abusive or domestic violent relationships. I've known people that had experienced that before, but I did read up on things like that, kidnappings. That's a lot. It's a whole, whole lot.

It's something you actually have to, I'm sure, experience in order to really tap in, like truly tap into it. But honestly, I just went into it not judging it, allowing myself to feel those moments when we did the kidnapping scenes, when we did the stuff in the forest or whatever like i was afraid like we were shooting those scenes at night i'm a scaredy

cat i don't even watch scary commercials like so it felt very real i'm it very real so i allowed myself to feel that fear i allowed myself to you know feel like okay i don't know what's gonna happen next what's you know even though cameras were rolling, I knew homie was going to pop out the bushes. I still, in that moment, allowed myself to feel. There was a scene I did in the bathroom on the whole germophobia. Like, for real, I take for real baths.

You move your hands off that desk then? Don't do that to her. We wipe it down before. We wipe it down before you got here. You're such a clown. We wipe it down before you came here. Even though such a clown. We wipe it down before you came here. Even though he is that type. Even though he is that type.

Even though he is that type. You know how many people have talked to that microphone? But I didn't get close to it. You said the death. And the death. We wipe it down. We wipe it down before anybody comes in here. Red right here, one of our producers, wipes it down.

We wipe it down. So nobody got no sanitizer? We can't get no Clorox wipes? Oh my gosh. He wipes it down with clorox now i'ma just okay so here's the thing i had to do y'all a scene on a public like bathroom floor no sure did sure did sure did you got the cooties no and guess what it was a men's bathroom no yeah and they kept saying we cleaned it you know we put bleach on the floor it's the whole thing i said oh no no no i need to actually see somebody get down there and scrub because that's gross and i had to lay on a bathroom floor and i just allowed myself to feel all the ewishness of that moment and i just put it into the scene. There was a scene where I had to do in the forest, in this

I don't even know what it was, Winnebago whatever it was. The smells, the quiet of the moment. Because just imagine being held captive somewhere for six years and it's quiet. Nobody's hearing your screams. You talking to

yourself. You talking to yourself. You doing all kinds of things. Like I allowed myself to feel a little out of my mind. And I just allowed myself to go there. And that's what I think made those scenes so wonderful and believable in my opinion is because I really just allowed myself to step outside of myself and be uncomfortable. How do you come back from that?

That's where the process was. It was being able to snap out of that and leave all of those emotions on set. That was the hardest part, like going back to your room and not carrying that. Because even with some of the emotional scenes, I had to tap into some of my own traumas and there were so many times where the cameras would stop rolling and they would

yell cut and I would be crying for another 30 minutes because I was still there and still shook and still could feel all of those feelings and I said okay okay you're doing your work today you're doing your work today because if I'm having to call my therapist after a scene, that means I really tapped into something that I thought I was probably over. I promise you I was thinking that because I always wonder if you're a person that's doing the work

and we all know healing is not a linear journey, right? But if you're doing the work and you do make some steps forward to where you're getting to a closer place of being healed, but then you got to go do a movie for three months and like kind of trauma dump yes it's like what does that do to your psyche i'm away from my kids i'm away from everything that i know like i it really that quiet is is that's what bothered me the most i'm so used to being in a home full of you know kids and all kind of things going on and and and to be

by myself and still that's when I was like okay maybe I'm maybe I need to dig a little deeper in some things yeah um and I was okay with that but that's where the I'm honestly not even y'all talking about it right now I'm wanting to cry or I'm feeling those emotions again would you do another role like this? I would because I do feel like sometimes people are scared to play roles like this they don't want to be ugly on camera

they don't want people to see that ugly cry they don't want people to see them outside of glam and nah that's why I love being an actress and outside of, you know, music. It's because I want people to see all sides of, first of all, Latoya. But also, I truly want to speak for women. I really want to be the best representative I possibly can.

And if there's a woman out there that is going through something like Victoria has gone through I just I think her story needs to be told word yeah always want to say that okay but I was asking because she I'm set outside of music would you say that your love for acting surpass your love for music because I know music is your number one passion. It is. It is. But, I mean, it's like asking which one is your favorite child. I don't. They're both gifts given by God.

And it's like I love that he has allowed me and given me a platform to be able to share them. And I can't say which one I love the most. Did you always love acting? Or it was one of those things where music was your love, and you were like, let me try this, and you fell in love with it? No, I just fell into acting. I would do school plays as a kid.

We all did. Which one did you do? Rock Soup? Annie? No, Pinocchio. My dog played Annie. He played Sandy in Annie. That's funny you say that, but yes.

Your dog? My dog. My dog got casted to play Sandy in annie in a um well miller outdoor theater in houston texas like that's a big thing uh where did that money go to go to you you got to do it donate it to a shelter how much is the dog you paid i think my parents probably got it i don't know what i don't know what the funds for that went okay i don't know who got paid dog i mean the food stayed the same so he didn't get no extra treats or nothing. And wait till that dog sue you later for treating him wrong. God rest his soul.

Sam. Oh, he died? Yeah, he died a long time ago. No, wait till Petta or Peter. The dog is dead. I don't know if the baby got paid. I don't know if the baby got paid. You know what? I'll ask my mom and dad later on about that.

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twice I got on a plane Atlanta and here we are I always wonder how was life in the industry different now from when you first started because it feels like a whole new world whole new world a whole new world i mean you gotta think i started when i was 12 years old we were singing everywhere i mean in front of grocery stores on planes anywhere that our voices could be heard talent shows the grind was different and there was no like i feel like everything feel like everything happens a lot faster now. Of course, we have social media platforms. People can post their music, YouTube, all these, SoundCloud, all these things.

That wasn't available to us. So we depended on local news. We depended on just, you know, local talent shows, the hot local producers to produce our records. And the grind was a lot tougher. I feel like the barrier of entry was tougher too. Absolutely. First of all, the main goal was to get a record deal. Now you don't really even need that.

You know what I mean? So if you got your record deal, oh, you was on. Or to even get the attention, if you think back in the day, you had to get a manager first. So getting a manager was like the big deal um before our time and then to get a producer to recognize you so that they would produce your album it was so many huge steps that you had to take um before you got your big opportunity and that's why i think like once you got that big opportunity, it was a different feeling.

You didn't take it lightly. You showed up. We showed up. We know how to show up on time. We showed up ready. The live performances, we was giving it all. I mean, you had to be able to sing, act, and dance when we was coming up. You had to have all of the things.

And I think now, you know, it's just a little different would you want your kids to jump in the air? You ain't gotta have no talent huh? No I'm not saying that. Obviously folk got to like you for something. You skipped a line but would you want your kids to do it? Would you want your kids to be in this industry? You know what I wouldn't I wouldn't say don't I would I would share my experiences with them and say hey honey this ain't for the week and don't. I would share my experiences with them and say, hey, honey, this ain't for the week. And don't just do it for money.

Why do you say you wouldn't? I wouldn't because I know mentally the things that you have to go through. I saw a lot. I've seen a whole, whole lot, good and bad, in my time in this entertainment industry. And I know that I had to become a different type of person. I mean, I've never hardened my heart towards anybody. But you have to have a very strong mentality to be in this industry and unwavering in your faith and so many other things you have

to stay true to yourself and i think that nowadays especially with you know the new generation somebody leave a bad comment on instagram and they ready to be done yeah yeah yeah you know what i mean and you can't have you can't be that fragile. Now, you said your faith tested. What was the worst test that you had to overcome? What was the worst thing that you've seen? Without saying names, of course. Shut up. I mean, I've seen some things. You know, I mean, of course, I had my experience,

which we went through that as children. So, thank God. Whoa. You know, with having to go through even just not having friendships, kid friendships. Like we started at 12. Some of us started at 9. So to lose a best friend or not, you know,

have that communication with them anymore and for that to be such a major change, shift in your life, to be able to deal with that. And and back then like therapists weren't in we didn't have a therapist to walk us through a transition like that so it was basically i think for me the grace of god that he was able to put angels in my life to to help guide me into you know, the next phase of my life. And I don't know how many people would have been able to survive that. And also, you know, you see greed. You see greed in this industry a lot.

You see people caring about you one day, and this is not me speaking on my experience, but, you know, people love you one day and the next day it's, what, I don't even know their name. Who? And you got to just be a different kind of person to deal with that because you said you know you can't be too fragile and you did kind of touch on them you said there was no therapist back then but even back then y'all had to be fragile too so if it wasn't for those people walking y'all through you too I'm sure you

did crack what I mean I mean here's the cool part like there wasn't like a a shade room or a media takeout to see the cracking like i was able to actually do have my my feelings and my mess ups and my emotions in my the comfort of my home until wendy williams found out there wasn't wendy williams it was but uh wendy didn't have she didn't have nothing to say about me, thank God. And I was just able to heal and go through everything that I needed to go through without a camera in my face or a blog finding out or something like that. And I remember when everything first happened, I was in my bedroom listening to the local radio station, and they started talking about it.

And I was alone in my room, 17, 18 years old, and I just remember putting the sheets over my head. By it, you mean the breakup? Yeah. I'm sure. That's got to be, like, frustrating to constantly hear about. Because it's like... That didn't go away for a while.

It didn't go away. And it's like having a for real relationship. It's a divorce. It's a major divorce. And seeing your partner move on and be successful and folk love them. And it's, you know, and here's the part. Like, I am glad that that situation happened because, one, I was able to, I'm a PK, but I got to know God on a whole nother level you know what I mean my relationship with God changed I also became confident in myself had I not you know gone

through that I wouldn't have become a solo artist I wouldn't have been able to I didn't even feel that I was even ready to move on or be a part of this industry after that happened. And God allowed the opportunity for me to get back in the studio. Then I got a record. Then I got a record deal. Then I started performing. And I was having, like, major breakdowns before even going live on stage because I was like, I'm up here by myself. I'm up here by myself.

Like, what am I going to do? But had I not gone through those things, I don't think I would be as confident as I am today. I don't think I would believe in my voice the way that I do today. I don't think that, you know, I would have even said, OK, I'm going to expand and believe in God to take on this new career as an actress. I probably just would have stayed in my comfort zone. So I'm glad. A question, because you said something that made me think about it. You said you're watching everybody go on to have tremendous success,

right? But when you're in a group like a Destiny's Child, I would think even at a young age, you kind of knew who was going to be the breakout star. Or did they tell all of y'all that all of y'all was going to be breakout stars? No. I mean, it was a team player mentality.

So I don't think any of us at that time were thinking someone was going to go solo. It was about the group. The group. And we were groomed to have that group mentality. But, I mean, come on. You hit that girl, open her mouth. It's different. And I'm not going to sit up here and compare myself

or go well you know she doesn't deserve more opportunities first of all she brought me in the group she showed up to school and showed me the t-shirt and asked me you know to audition for her dad what did she say do you want to be a child of destiny she did not say that because that was not the name of the group it was called girls time at the time and you know she said you know you want to you want to audition for my dad and I said absolutely and she gave me the biggest break of my life wow I will always be grateful for her I will always admire her for her talents and her her this I don't I don't think I've ever met someone who works harder than Beyonce Giselle Knowles. That is not her name anymore.

It's Beyonce Knowles Carter. And I am so proud of everything that she's done. And to even say that I was a part of a chapter of her life and a part of such a phenomenal group. Shout out to all the girls at the Turing. Kelly, Beyonce, Latavia, Michelle. Love y'all all dearly. Happy birthday, Michelle.

Happy birthday, Taneetra. Happy birthday, Mish. But I'm grateful. You'll never hear an ugly word come out of my mouth. Y'all just had a reunion, a semi-reunion earlier this year. We were in the same room for the first time ever. And it was a, I really still can't wrap my head around that moment because I've been around all of them individually over the past few years.

But having us all in the same room at the same time with all our different energies was kind of like, hey, okay. We were moms, wives, all the things. And we were talking more about that. And then we prayed together. We hugged, cried. Yeah. People always would ask, is there any possibility of a reunion tour?

I do not know. Reunion song. I'd be down for it. Reunion show. Listen, I would love something like that. Who wouldn't? But it's, uh, if the opportunity presented itself,

I would welcome it. Yeah, I saw you earlier this year, you said that Beyoncé created a wonderful space for the Deafness Child reunion. She did. She really, really did. And, um, it was so cute when she came off stage. She was on her cart, her and Jay, and they, um, she dang near hopped off that cart while it was still moving to come and embrace us and give us a hug.

And she's like, yes, girl, this outfit. Da, da, da. You know, immediately we went. First of all, to watch her go from doing, was that a three-hour show? Yes. Was it three hours? Okay. Yeah, my feet was hurt.

It was three hours. Three-hour show. Go backstage. I don't know. How did baby switch into that hoodie so quick, that black hoodie outfit? Got on the cart with her husband. Immediately, that energy presented itself, okay? She's gone right into wife mode.

And then she hops off the cart, and the children just run. And I said, okay, she didn't even have time to woosah she goes right back into being a mom you know and then we're there and there's this big new moment for her I'm like how is she taking all this on and I at that moment wanted to go girl did have you had 10 minutes somebody bring her some water some lemon you need some towels she didn't really get to have that. She just went with the flow. But it was beautiful to see her come off the stage, entertaining I don't know how many people, over 75,000 people,

and go straight into making sure she was present for her daughters who were present there. And that just speaks to who she is. It really does. I know you got to wrap, but I do have one last question because you said you wouldn't want your kids in the business. I said that what I had said, Charlamagne, was I wouldn't say don't be in the business,

but what I would do is share my experience, and I would say, you know, it's not for the weak. And also, I'm a person that feels like God doesn't take you through things for nothing. And I love to share my testimony. I love to share things that I've been through so that it will hopefully be a learning experience for somebody else. And also show somebody, hey, even though you might be going through a storm right now, there's light at the end of the tunnel. It might, for real, might be okay. That's right.

You might come out of this thing all right. So I would share that with my children and say, you know if you're gonna do it you better be serious about it don't do it just for no money don't do it just for just for fun but you got to do it for the deep love of it and when I say love I'm talking about that unfailing love I'm talking about that you know when when it hurts when you don't feel like doing it no more, when you're tired, when you don't feel like showing up for people, when you don't feel like performing, when you're having a bad day, when somebody done pissed you off right before or said something to throw you off, you still got to get up there and share your gift. If you can still do it and not think or blink twice, then do it. Well, my question is,

why didn't you share all of that amazing advice with your dog? You just let your dog go out there. Are we still talking about Sam? He didn't go to be with the Lord. We appreciate you for joining us. Absolutely. We love you. That's not my man.

I don't like him. I don't like him. I don't like him. Just how? Just ask the question. Why didn't the dog get the same advice? You know what? I was there to comfort Sam at all times. I don't like him. Just how? Just ask the question. Why didn't the dog get the same advice? You know what? I was there to comfort Sam at all times.

I loved Sam. I brushed him often. I fed him. What kind of dog was Sam? A bearded collie. Okay. I don't know what that is. You don't.

Exactly. He was a rare dog, rare breed. Jess said all week. Jess, you didn't know what that was, Jess. I know what a collie is, sweetheart. He eyes friendly eyes beautiful brown eyes gorgeous dog hey listen he did this thing honestly he popped off and then my brother popped off he's in the room right now shout out to gavin lucky geo productions um he played uh in the movie challenger with Angela, I have to say it right, Auntie Angela, Angela Bassett or Bassett, and

also Joe Martin. So I was like third in the family to really do anything with my life. I was the one sitting in the trailer mad and jealous of my dog and my brother. Any more questions about the dog? You know what, I'm going to call my

therapist after this. Now we're going to... You know what? I'm going to call my therapist after this. That's trauma. Because now we're going back. You know what I'm saying? I'm just out here. Rest in peace, Sam. Rest in peace, Sam. I love you so much.

Hey, yo, she looking around. She looking around, dude. Y'all done seen... What's that... What's the graveyard dog movie? I can't watch that. All Dogs Go to Heaven? No.

No, not All Dogs. The scary one. Pet Cemetery. Oh, Pet Cemetery. Yeah, no, I started thinking about Sam. How did we get to the Dane dog? How did we talk? How did we get here? Well, thank you for joining us, Latoya Lucky. Thank you. Can we please watch the movie, y'all? I thought my husband's dog

was dead Saturday, August 3rd. I thought my husband's wife was dead. I thought my husband's dog was dead. No, I thought my husband's wife was dead. 8, 7 Central, Saturday, y'all. Just watch the movie. Your girl in there looking all the way crazy. Just know that.

It's a Lifetime movie. It's a Lifetime movie. Saturday, August 3rd. I thought my husband's wife was dead. I know it's a long title, but please watch it. It's very intriguing, like you said. It makes you want to be like, okay. Thank you, Jess.

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