{"id":137,"date":"2016-01-07T10:30:40","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T10:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fanshencox.com\/home\/?p=137"},"modified":"2016-02-03T06:16:48","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T06:16:48","slug":"one-drop-qa-tell-your-own-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fanshencox.com\/home\/one-drop-qa-tell-your-own-story\/","title":{"rendered":"One Drop of Love Q&#038;A: Tell Your Own Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TBm-ZHmsYgU?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>TRANSCRIPT:<\/p>\n<p><strong>MARLEY<\/strong> (audience member): This is a one woman show and it was so, I&#8217;m assuming, difficult to produce. Why a one woman show and not an entire group of people?<\/p>\n<p><strong>FANSHEN<\/strong>: Freaking Hollywood. Because, you know, I&#8217;ve been out here for a long time and wanted to be an actor and especially when I first got out here my agent would say, &#8220;Oh you got an audition,&#8221; and I&#8217;d have to ask, &#8220;Well is it for Black or White?&#8221; Because then I&#8217;d decide how I&#8217;d wear my hair&#8230;and I finally was like, &#8220;I need to tell my own damn story.&#8221; Because nobody else is going to do it for me, nor should they because they can&#8217;t &#8211; and so that was a big reason for it. If I&#8217;m going to tell this story, I&#8217;m going to do justice for myself. I&#8217;m going to do some self-care and get to play myself.<\/p>\n<p>And I encourage everyone, particularly women, particularly folks whose stories you don&#8217;t get to see: write your own damn story. I&#8217;m tired of the system. I&#8217;m TIRED of the system. And we don&#8217;t have to work within it anymore. We have access to so many different&#8230;I mean that&#8217;s why I was so determined to have women on this shoot. We can DO this. We can do this. So tell your story, Girl! TELL it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRANSCRIPT: MARLEY (audience member): This is a one woman show and it was so, I&#8217;m assuming, difficult to produce. Why a one woman show and not an entire group of people? FANSHEN: Freaking Hollywood. 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