1 00:00:00,417 --> 00:00:04,757 I wish I grew up in the church and I had a church voice. 2 00:00:04,796 --> 00:00:09,046 You really took it there because my superficial ass, 3 00:00:09,092 --> 00:00:11,802 like, was just like, "I just want to be able to sing." 4 00:00:11,845 --> 00:00:14,135 But yours is, like, "I want to move people." 5 00:00:14,181 --> 00:00:16,811 Mine is, like, "I just don't want you to talk to me." 6 00:00:16,850 --> 00:00:19,480 - 'Cause I can sing so good. - Well, that too. 7 00:00:33,575 --> 00:00:37,955 Hi, I'm Maurice Harris, and this is "Centerpiece." 8 00:00:41,750 --> 00:00:42,670 My next guest... 9 00:00:42,709 --> 00:00:47,629 an amazing actress, director, writer-producer, 10 00:00:47,673 --> 00:00:49,553 Ms. Rashida Jones. 11 00:00:54,638 --> 00:00:58,228 So we're here at the Underground Museum in the Purple Garden. 12 00:00:58,267 --> 00:01:01,397 I think purple has had a huge impact on me 13 00:01:01,436 --> 00:01:03,896 in ways that I probably am not even aware of, 14 00:01:03,939 --> 00:01:08,239 but it's such a familial color to me. 15 00:01:08,277 --> 00:01:12,447 There's something indescribable and unintellectual about color. 16 00:01:12,489 --> 00:01:13,319 Yeah. 17 00:01:13,365 --> 00:01:18,075 And purple for me is like this... it's like a heart color. 18 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:20,080 "The Color Purple," filming that movie, 19 00:01:20,122 --> 00:01:24,082 I was nine when we went to North Carolina to shoot, 20 00:01:24,126 --> 00:01:27,746 and that was the last family trip we had together. 21 00:01:27,796 --> 00:01:32,126 We have a photo of us in the purple fields that are in the movie. 22 00:01:32,176 --> 00:01:34,636 You can see there's, like, a foreshadowing 23 00:01:34,678 --> 00:01:38,058 that there was something sad and something brewing. 24 00:01:38,098 --> 00:01:39,848 And then my parents split up. 25 00:01:39,892 --> 00:01:43,522 Wow. I really feel like I'm getting a sense of who you are. 26 00:01:43,562 --> 00:01:47,152 - You know, it's getting my juices going. - Good. 27 00:01:47,191 --> 00:01:50,241 But I think we need to dive a little deeper, if you will. 28 00:01:50,277 --> 00:01:51,197 Let's do it. I'm in. 29 00:01:51,236 --> 00:01:55,446 And now let's take a journey to the center. 30 00:01:56,909 --> 00:01:58,909 Why do you make things? 31 00:01:58,952 --> 00:02:01,662 What are you striving for? 32 00:02:01,705 --> 00:02:05,125 Running from pain? 33 00:02:05,167 --> 00:02:06,957 Right. 34 00:02:07,002 --> 00:02:08,422 - Kind of. - Right. 35 00:02:08,462 --> 00:02:12,262 Do you create space for darkness? 36 00:02:12,299 --> 00:02:14,679 That has been a lifetime journey. 37 00:02:14,718 --> 00:02:18,558 I've learned through years of therapy with you... 38 00:02:18,597 --> 00:02:21,227 Totally. 39 00:02:21,266 --> 00:02:23,096 ...and making things that, like, that's my friend. 40 00:02:23,143 --> 00:02:27,523 And my depth and my darkness and my sadness 41 00:02:27,564 --> 00:02:30,194 is directly related to my work. 42 00:02:30,234 --> 00:02:32,444 When and where were you happiest? 43 00:02:32,486 --> 00:02:34,736 Nature, for me, that's where the truth is. 44 00:02:34,780 --> 00:02:37,200 So my truth is always in nature. 45 00:02:37,241 --> 00:02:40,121 I mean, I love a nature moment, a curated nature moment. 46 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:44,210 Me too. You bring nature into the world. 47 00:02:44,248 --> 00:02:46,288 It's what I'm here for, you know? 48 00:02:47,876 --> 00:02:50,086 And now let's go deep. 49 00:02:53,841 --> 00:02:56,641 Now it's gonna get a little real. 50 00:02:56,677 --> 00:02:58,847 - Whitney or Mariah? - Whitney. 51 00:03:00,138 --> 00:03:02,848 - Desert or sea? - Sea. 52 00:03:02,891 --> 00:03:06,141 - Almond or oat? - Oat. 53 00:03:06,186 --> 00:03:08,976 - Sparkling or still? - Still. 54 00:03:11,066 --> 00:03:13,686 If you were a season, what season would you be? 55 00:03:13,735 --> 00:03:15,855 Spring. 56 00:03:15,904 --> 00:03:20,834 If you could have an unlimited supply of one thing for the rest of your life, 57 00:03:20,868 --> 00:03:22,368 what would it be? 58 00:03:22,411 --> 00:03:24,251 Inspiration. 59 00:03:28,208 --> 00:03:31,878 You think you're cute. Okay, I see you. 60 00:03:37,342 --> 00:03:40,392 Girl, it's time to process. 61 00:03:42,097 --> 00:03:44,427 My girl, Rashida, talked about nature 62 00:03:44,474 --> 00:03:47,524 being the place where she feels most herself. 63 00:03:49,438 --> 00:03:53,438 When I'm with her, I feel that deep sense of rootedness. 64 00:03:54,484 --> 00:03:59,164 She talked about being in the purple garden for the last time with her family. 65 00:04:01,325 --> 00:04:04,285 My centerpiece will reimagine that moment 66 00:04:04,328 --> 00:04:07,208 and allow Rashida to see it again 67 00:04:07,247 --> 00:04:09,997 with fresh eyes... 68 00:04:10,042 --> 00:04:13,712 and to see herself, wild and deep, 69 00:04:13,754 --> 00:04:16,134 bursting with color... 70 00:04:16,173 --> 00:04:21,393 grounded and, yet, at the same time, floating above it all. 71 00:04:21,428 --> 00:04:25,928 This one's gonna be special for a very special person to me. 72 00:04:32,648 --> 00:04:34,478 - I'm really excited. - I am, too. 73 00:04:34,525 --> 00:04:36,355 We've been working so hard. 74 00:04:36,401 --> 00:04:41,111 I'm just so excited that you let us get insight to who you are, 75 00:04:41,156 --> 00:04:44,276 and giving us more of your process 76 00:04:44,326 --> 00:04:46,156 so that then it informs my process. 77 00:04:46,203 --> 00:04:49,213 - Yes. - And now this is my gift to you. 78 00:04:49,248 --> 00:04:50,418 Cue the curtains. 79 00:04:57,214 --> 00:05:01,094 It's so beautiful. It's really gonna make me cry. 80 00:05:01,134 --> 00:05:04,224 - I mean... - It's so beautiful. 81 00:05:04,263 --> 00:05:07,023 I was just really moved by when you were talking in the Purple Garden 82 00:05:07,057 --> 00:05:11,397 about your moment with your family and that last beautiful portrait. 83 00:05:11,436 --> 00:05:16,146 I just thought that was, like, such a beautiful visual. 84 00:05:16,191 --> 00:05:19,031 I invite you into your purple garden. 85 00:05:19,069 --> 00:05:23,619 It just encompasses so much. 86 00:05:24,741 --> 00:05:27,291 Yeah, there's a lot going on. You're a complex lady. 87 00:05:27,327 --> 00:05:28,327 Thank you. 88 00:05:28,370 --> 00:05:30,710 I take it as a compliment now. I wouldn't when I was younger. 89 00:05:30,747 --> 00:05:34,167 I just thought it was so wonderful of you 90 00:05:34,209 --> 00:05:38,259 to, like, open up about the experience that you had with your family. 91 00:05:38,297 --> 00:05:42,717 Now I sort of have to come to terms with what that meant and that ending. 92 00:05:42,759 --> 00:05:45,599 And everything worked out okay. 93 00:05:45,637 --> 00:05:47,177 Shall we? After you. 94 00:05:47,222 --> 00:05:48,432 Yes.