what are your partners, your relationships? what are they showing you about yourself? - although it s a reality show. we really had to do the work. and we really went through that process, like a lot of triggers came out and a lot of trauma came up. it was very powerful. - miss cynthia, miss cynthia, miss cynthia (hands clapping). don t do that. let her go. miss cynthia, let her go. she can do this. i promise you. she can do it. that tear ain t gonna kill her. that s what she need to do. let your heart break. just let it break so that you can get underneath that stuff. - that s what telling stories should be about, putting forth experiences that you don t normally see, things that may be foreign to you and that you re not necessarily familiar with, and allowing people to tell their stories in a non-judgmental way so that we foster empathy and greater understanding. and i think there s room for shows that display us
- court shows would not be the same if it wasn t for judge joe brown and judge greg mathis. - mathis, baby. - [desus] okay? - judge joe brown was the first black judge on television. he was this fresh, tough alternative to the people s court. - the more you talk, - [plaintiff] no, if you would- - the worse it gets. - be quiet, - [brown] keep talking. - and let me talk. - [brown] you re telling me to be be quiet? get her outta here. - joe brown and his one liners are just hilarious. - you judging me and you don t even know me. - i am judging you. - [plaintiff] right. - [brown] that s what my job has been for a long time. - he s like an old uncle that pretty much has no filter. he s gonna tell you like it is, and not hold anything back. - you have aggregated your likelihood of being a credible witness cause you re trying to play bozo the clown instead of man with some respect, courtesy, and consideration for how it looks. - judge joe brown is someone who you watch, and you re like, o
you basically give a filthy look to the camera and walk back. what does it say about the film industry when you look at bend it like beckham, that keira knightley went on to become a breakout star but the other lead in the film, parminder nagra, didn t? i think it says everything you need to know about our industry. you know, keira was bankable. so, jerry bruckheimer cast her in the pirates of the caribbean series. pirate or not, this man saved my life. parminder did get some offers. john wells contacted me and asked me about her as a possible doctor in er, you know so, she immediately got the la break and joined the cast of er. so, she had success too, but it s a shame that hollywood did not acknowledge that she could be a leading lady in the same way, and that is because asian leads are not seen as bankable still to this day, i think that s true. what do you say, dad? don t play with your future.
was coming up. and i also wanted to be part of that. # my independence day. you know, you have been able to move forward in your career by being very determined and being very feisty. where does that come from? when i was about 16, at school, i had wanted to go to university and i actually wanted to study what we called development economics and geography at the time, because geography was my favourite subject. and i went to the careers office and said, this is what i want to do, i want to go to university, and she looked at me and said mmm, don t you think you should apply to secretarial college? and i was like, why would i want to be a secretary? and she said, the world needs good secretaries . and ijust. in that moment, with that careers teacher, ijust thought, you don t know me and you don t get me,
where is that coming from? i believe in addition to getting countries to summon the will to be able to increase their capital in the world bank and other regional development banks, we also in addition to the technical things we can do to unlock private sector capital, there is the reality that we need to find a new source of capital for global public goods. and we believe that multi-national corporations who are benefiting egregiously, who have caused the problem, need to leave a few cents in a dollar profit on the table. when you look at what is going on in paris with this climate financing conference and others, do you think we re on the right track? i do think that we re moving in the right direction. but i don t think we re moving with the pace or with the scope that is necessary. whether we like it or not, it is coming at us. and if you know you re on a track, and a train is coming at you at full speed, you don t stay on the track. and what is necessary now is for