“The standout for Baby Boy was the audition. I’m gonna take you back a little bit. So I was in this acting boot camp with Bill Duke and he would have his colleagues come in and talk to us. John Singleton—Rest in Peace, brother. I love you. I miss you.—came and spoke to the class. And whenever we would have our 10-minute breaks, everybody would swarm him. But I didn’t because I knew I’d see him in the real world later. Cut to: Baby Boy. I went in to audition and he remembered me. After that, he called me back in to read with Tyrese and I was so nervous. No one told me that Tyrese was the guy. I remember overhearing him say, ‘I need somebody that’s gonna challenge me.’ And in my brain, I thought, ‘Say less.’ So we’re doing the ‘Give me my keys, Jodie’ scene, right? And all of a sudden, I go off script and he goes with me. I threw some papers at him upside his head and then he got up and I jumped on his back. The audition is online somewhere. And that’s how Jody and Yvette were born.”