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- I wish I grew up in the church

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and I just--I had a church voice.

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- You really took it there
because my superficial ass,

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like, was just like,
"I just want to be able to sing."

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But yours is, like,
"I want to move people."

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Mine is, like,
"I just don't want you to talk to me."

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'Cause I can sing so good.
- [laughs] Well, that too.

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[whimsical music]

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♪ ♪

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- Hi, I'm Maurice Harris,
and this is "Centerpiece."

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[soft gospel music]

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My next guest--

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an amazing actress,
director, writer-producer,

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Ms. Rashida Jones.

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[harp music]

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♪ ♪

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So we're here at the Underground Museum
in the Purple Garden.

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- I think purple has had
a huge impact on me

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in ways that I probably
am not even aware of,

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but it's such a familial color to me.

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There's something indescribable
and unintellectual about color.

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- Yeah.

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- And purple for me is like this--
it's a rich--it's like a heart color.

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"The Color Purple," filming that movie,

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I was nine when we went
to North Carolina to shoot,

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and that was the last family trip
we had together.

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We have a photo of us in the purple fields
that are in the movie.

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You can see there's, like, a foreshadowing

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that there was something sad
and something brewing.

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And then my parents split up.

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- Wow. I really feel like I'm getting
a sense of who you are.

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- Oh.

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- You know, it's getting my juices going.
- Good.

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- But I think we need to dive
a little deeper, if you will.

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- Let's do it. I'm in.

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- And now let's take a journey
to the center.

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[laughs]

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Why do you make things?

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What are you striving for?

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- Running from pain?
[both laughing]

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- Right.

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- Kind of.
- Right.

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Do you create space for darkness?
- Mm...

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That has been a lifetime journey.

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I've learned through years
of therapy with you...

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- [laughs] Totally.

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- And making things
that, like, that's my friend.

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And I can't--my depth and my darkness
and my sadness

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is directly related to my work.

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- When and where were you happiest?

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- Nature, for me,
that's where the truth is.

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So my truth is always in nature.

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- I mean, I love a nature moment,
a curated nature moment.

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- Me too. You bring nature into the world.

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- It's what I'm here for, you know?
- Mm-hmm.

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[tranquil music]

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- And now let's go deep.

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♪ ♪

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Now it's gonna get a little real.
- Mm-mm.

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- Whitney or Mariah?
- Whitney.

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[organ music]

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- Desert or sea?
- Sea.

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- Almond or oat?
- Oat.

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- Sparkling or still?
- Still.

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[somber organ music]

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- If you were a season,
what season would you be?

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- Spring.
[organ music]

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- If you could have an unlimited supply
of one thing for the rest of your life,

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what would it be?

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- Inspiration.

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- [clicks tongue]

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- [laughs]

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- You think you're cute. Okay, I see you.

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[chuckles]

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♪ ♪

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Girl, it's time to process.

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[soothing music]

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My girl, Rashida, talked about nature

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being the place where
she feels most herself.

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When I'm with her, I feel
that deep sense of rootedness.

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She talked about being in the purple
garden for the last time with her family.

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My centerpiece will reimagine that moment

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and allow Rashida to see it again

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with fresh eyes...

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and to see herself, wild and deep,

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bursting with color...

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grounded and, yet, at the same time,
floating above it all.

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This one's gonna be special
for a very special person to me.

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[drumroll]

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- I'm really excited.
- I am, too.

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- [giggles]
- We've been working so hard.

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I'm just so excited that you let us
get insight to who you are,

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and giving us more of your process

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so that then it informs my process.

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- Yes.
- And now this is my gift to you.

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Cue the curtains.

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[drumroll]

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- [gasps] Aww. Oh.

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Oh, it's so beautiful.
It's really gonna make me cry.

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- I mean...
- It's so beautiful.

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- I was just really moved by when
you were talking in the Purple Garden

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about your moment with your family
and that last beautiful portrait.

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I just thought that was, like,
such a beautiful visual.

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I invite you into your purple garden.
- Oh.

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It just encompasses so much.

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- Yeah, there's a lot going on.
You're a complex lady.

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- Thank you.

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I take it as a compliment now.
I wouldn't when I was younger.

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- I just thought it was
so wonderful of you

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to, like, open up about the experience
that you had with your family.

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- Now I sort of have to come to terms
with what that meant and that ending.

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And everything worked out okay.

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- Shall we? After you.

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- Yes.

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[whimsical music]

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♪ ♪