“AMERICAN FICTION” STAR STERLING K. BROWN
AIR DATE: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26TH

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VIDEOS:

Sterling on Delivering His Own Child 

https://app.cimediacloud.com/r/PfuGjxSyZbLy 

Drew: In fact did those soft hands actually give birth to one of your children? How and why did that come about?

Sterling: Because Ryan Michelle Bathe aka Fertile Myrtle didn’t waste any time. Her first contraction was at 11p.m., Andrew came into the world at 2:23 a.m. right so three hours and 23 minutes later. And the doula was like, ‘Make sure mommy gets plenty of rest she’s in for a big day tomorrow.’ And she’s laying in bed saying, ‘I’ve got to go to the bathroom. I’ve got to go to the bathroom.’ One time she crawls out of the bathroom and goes, ‘I think I am crowning.’ And I mansplain to her, ‘Oh sweetheart you can’t be crowning it’s way too soon.’ And I looked in between her legs and the baby’s head was all the way out…She pushed, his little body wriggled out. He cried.

Sterling on Remembering His Father Who Passed When He was 10-Years-Old 

 https://app.cimediacloud.com/r/ZmBluv5xf5sN

Drew: You had a really strong relationship with your father and when you have a moment like that and you’re this father, you literally just gave birth to your child. Do you think about him in that moment?

Sterling: Don’t you do that Drew Barrymore. Yeah, yes, you do. Sterling Brown Jr. is my dad and I love him very much, he passed away when I was 10, almost 11 but I have this reservoir of love that is just a deep well inside of me and I get a chance to share that with these two beautiful boys that I have right now.

Sterling on Being  Told To “Stop the Smart Black Guy Thing”

https://app.cimediacloud.com/r/5N3ILDiE04gO

Drew: Is it true that when you were out in the early 2000s just crushing it doing jobs that they were a little hesitant of your regality or intelligence. Did you get any advice yourself that the film literally speaks to?

Sterling: A little bit. Yeah, like sometimes they were like, ‘He’s got to stop that smart black guy thing and sort of dumb it down a little bit.

Drew: Isn’t that interested and thank God you didn’t because look at where you are now but that is so much of what the film is about.

Sterling: It is interesting, it is so much of what the film is about.

Sterling on His Favorite Character Kill-Off & Drew on the Amount of Fake Blood Used on “Santa Clarita Diet”

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Sterling: ‘You’ve been killed off in a lot of projects what was your most gruesome or favorite one?’ Oh that is a great question, as a black actor you die a lot on screen, real talk. But my most favorite one was on ‘Supernatural’ where I became a vampire hunter but then I get bit by a vampire and so I had to die by being beheaded. That was a good time.

Drew: Nice, I’ve never gotten to play a vampire?

Sterling: What are you talking about?

Drew: Did a play a vampire?

Sterling: ‘Santa Clarita Diet.’

Drew: Oh my God.

Sterling: Drew Barrymore I know your work, you were a vampire.

Drew: I do love flesh eating and blood.

Sterling: You had so much blood.

Drew: Do you know they kept coming onto the set and telling me less blood, you can’t use this much blood….They were like dial it down.