[00:00:00] Speaker A: Let's get it started in here.
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[00:00:38] Speaker B: Yo, welcome back to Wednesday's episode of the DJ Blaze radio show podcast. It's your boy be easy.
Hope y'all been having a good week and all of that stuff, you know, trying to do the something a little different on my Wednesday's episode, trying to interview some people that I see doing some things, some good things, great things, you know.
And so it's a show that I watch on Tubi called secrets in plain sight.
I quote unquote, know a few of the people that's on the show connected to them a little bit or whatever. And one of the young ladies, she plays Sonia. Sonia on there on the show. So I asked her to sit down with me and answer a few questions about the show and about how she got started and acting and all of that, and they shoot the show. I say local Columbia, you know, that ain't far. That's up the street from me. Some of y'all live in Columbia. Some of y'all from Columbia. Y'all know where Columbia is.
But, yeah, so it's good to see, you know, local people doing stuff like that.
And to be gets kind of a bad rap about bad shows, you know, they shot that with us. They shot that show with a shoe. I mean, that shoe with a show. A show with a shoe.
But, yeah, but, um. But this ain't one of them, you know, good cinematography. Y'all know how I love cinematography. But, yeah, I sat down with her and talked about, you know, some of the things on the show, some of the stuff that happened on the show or whatever.
Yeah, I hope y'all enjoyed, and hopefully in the near future, I get some of the other actors and actresses from the show to sit down and talk with me and ask some of the questions or whatever. But, yeah, we'll get into that interview right after this brief commercial break. Stay tuned, y'all.
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[00:03:32] Speaker B: Welcome back. Welcome back to the DJ Blaze radio show podcast. Have a special guest, a star of the singing stage, the television screen, maybe some movies. I don't know. We gonna find all of that out. Miss Sierra Fulda, aka Sonia. Welcome, welcome.
[00:03:54] Speaker A: Hello. Thank you for having me.
[00:03:56] Speaker B: Thank you for joining me.
First off, how are you?
[00:04:02] Speaker A: I'm good. I'm really good. How are you?
[00:04:04] Speaker B: I'm wonderful. Wonderful.
She's the star of. Are you? Well, your storyline is pretty prominent on the show, but she's on secrets in plain sight on tv.
Y'all just. Well, we just released season two. Y'all just released season two.
[00:04:23] Speaker A: Well, part one of season two.
[00:04:25] Speaker B: Part one. Okay, so that's what I was gonna ask. It's only four episodes.
[00:04:28] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:04:29] Speaker B: So when are we gonna get part two?
[00:04:32] Speaker A: Soon.
[00:04:33] Speaker B: So.
[00:04:34] Speaker A: Yes, we've already filmed everything.
[00:04:36] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:04:36] Speaker A: So it's just. I guess that's just how they are releasing it. So it's coming soon.
[00:04:40] Speaker B: Okay. So they still editing and stuff?
[00:04:44] Speaker A: I'm not sure.
[00:04:45] Speaker B: That ain't. That ain't your.
[00:04:47] Speaker A: No, listen, I go, I do my part. I film. And, hey, I'm done. This rap for Sonya. Okay, cool.
[00:04:52] Speaker B: Okay, do. Do. Like, when you out in the streets, do people walk up to you and call you Sonya?
[00:04:59] Speaker A: So they don't really call me Sonia, but two instances happened to me when I was in the nail salon getting a pedicure, and this lady was across the way, and she said, and I thought she was living as somebody else, so I just kind of ignored her. But then she did it again, and she said, secrets in plain sight. And I was like, yes.
And the other times, they normally happen at work. Like, a lot of people at work watched us when we were on YouTube because we were on YouTube first. Oh, okay. So a lot of people that saw me was like, are you on this show on YouTube called secrets? And playing something like, yeah. And they were like, where is it? I'm like, it's on to me now. And they're like, oh, cool, go watch it.
[00:05:39] Speaker B: So, yeah, so it was like, season one. The whole season one was on YouTube?
[00:05:44] Speaker A: Mm hmm.
[00:05:45] Speaker B: Oh, okay. Okay.
[00:05:48] Speaker A: So we aired.
It's about, like, how it started.
[00:05:59] Speaker B: Hold on. Say that again. I lost you a little bit.
[00:06:02] Speaker A: Okay. So, like, one of the questions that you'll probably ask me is, like, how it started, but we started. And when they filmed, it was completely independent, so there were no distributors, no production company, none of that. It was just wild productions and 171 and they recorded all of it and it went straight to YouTube. We had a premiere and people who came to the premiere got to see the entire series with us. And then it went to YouTube and it stayed on YouTube for a while before a distributor picked it up and put it on to be. So when they picked it up, of course we had to pull it from to be. So people would go pull it from YouTube. So people would go to Tubi to watch it whenever it was going to. Whenever it was released on to be.
[00:06:45] Speaker B: And so it's been on tubi for what, two years?
[00:06:52] Speaker A: Probably about a year and a half. Because I want to say it didn't get on to be until, like, later. 2022.
[00:07:01] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:07:02] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah.
[00:07:04] Speaker B: So what. When did you start? Like, is this your first acting?
[00:07:10] Speaker A: No. Okay.
So my very first play. So I've been doing stage play. That's what I normally do stage plays with. Wow. And my very first play was in the 8th grade, and my drama teacher, I had to perform in, like, this two person play for an event that we had at school. And that was the first time. But of course I didn't. You know, I learned I was dramatic then, but I didn't, like, really pursue it after that. But my first stage play with wild productions was in 2013.
I was an understudy. And then after that, I kind of took a little break. I said I needed to get better for the most part. And in 2016, I went back and I've been with them ever since then. So this particular show was supposed to be a play.
[00:07:59] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. So were you, like, in plays like, lord save me from that man or something?
[00:08:07] Speaker A: They weren't titled that.
[00:08:08] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:08:09] Speaker A: But they were stage plays. A black, urban stage plays.
[00:08:12] Speaker B: So you. So those type of plays you had to sing and stuff?
[00:08:16] Speaker A: Some of them. Now, Tangy's plays don't have a whole lot of singing in it. It's not a song. Every 25 seconds is, you know, but the songs are placed where they need to be. It's not going to be a song just because somebody wants to sing a song, but as it means something, if.
[00:08:32] Speaker B: Need be, you can handle it a little bit.
[00:08:35] Speaker A: Yeah, I can a little bit, you know.
[00:08:40] Speaker B: Yeah. I saw on your. On your facebook page, you shared some where you, like, on the stage, y'all, like, I don't know what the event was, but y'all, you know, you sitting in the chair singing. I was like, okay, she can sing, too. All right. Yeah.
[00:08:53] Speaker A: Got a little tune.
[00:08:55] Speaker B: Yeah. So you play Sonia. Sonia. How you say it? Sonia.
[00:09:00] Speaker A: Sonia.
[00:09:00] Speaker B: Sonia. You play Sonia.
She's the new girl in town. New girl to the shop with a mysterious past.
I don't think we still figured out what exactly happened. We kind of get all these flashbacks and such.
Something violent maybe happened.
I thought you was a drug dealer. Season one.
[00:09:27] Speaker A: Really?
[00:09:28] Speaker B: Yeah. You had the drug dealer swag. A little bit. You was just too secretive, you know, like, you had to, like, you had some of that work.
But we did get the flashback. So you play Sonya. What's your favorite part about playing her?
[00:09:45] Speaker A: The mystery. Because I don't know what's going to happen with Sonia every time either. Of course, the writers know, but every time I get my script, I'm like, oh, shoot. Like, dang. But I love that. I love that she has layers. And I have to be one way in the shop, and I'm another way with flex. I'm another way with people outside of the shop. The bar scene, I was one way with the guy at the bar, one way with flex.
[00:10:09] Speaker B: You was one way with that white man.
What was his name? It don't matter.
It don't matter.
So look at this. Doctor Umar would be befuddled. He would be mad. He would counsel y'all.
[00:10:28] Speaker A: He would definitely do that. But yes. So I like the layers that Sonia has. I really, really love that part about her.
[00:10:34] Speaker B: Speaking of layers, I feel like Sonya had on too many clothes that morning after being with the white man.
Wasn't he like a spy? Sort of like, he was.
[00:10:49] Speaker A: Apparently he was sent by someone to get Sonia in the bed, but to get some type of information. I don't know what he was looking for, but he ain't found what he was looking for.
[00:10:59] Speaker B: I don't even think he was. The bed part was in his job. Like, you know, go get in the bed. Just. He was just sent to get information, but the cherry on top was to get her in the bed.
But it was a.
Did you, like, receive any, like, any of your people watched the scene was like, what's going on here? Or did you have to prepare them for that?
[00:11:22] Speaker A: Well, okay. So my uncle, I told him, I said, all right, him and my sister, I said, this season is going to be scandalous because we had already filmed that part. So I was like, it's going to be scandalous, so brace yourself. And I was like, I don't know if my mama gonna watch it. So when my uncle watched it, I remember waking up the next morning and he might have sent me a text after midnight, and he said, oh, my gosh, you're doing it with a white guy. And I was like, oh, God, me.
[00:11:49] Speaker B: And your uncle are the same.
I said, I know not.
[00:11:53] Speaker A: I told you.
Yeah, but it was funny.
[00:11:59] Speaker B: So, like, with the people on the cast, I think one of them, I'm pretty sure y'all in the same gang.
Are you, like, close to anybody outside of work?
[00:12:16] Speaker A: All of them, actually, especially the main cast. Dana and I are really, really good friends. We are sorority sisters.
[00:12:23] Speaker B: Y'all in the same guy.
[00:12:23] Speaker A: But I've met her. I met her years before I even started acting with wild. So I've known her for a long time. Her. The ladies behind the scenes. I've known them for a long time, too. So all of us are really, really close. It's like family when we get together and act together. It's like, you know, of course the set days are long, but it's definitely like working with your family.
[00:12:49] Speaker B: So since you've known her too long, she's probably, like, your favorite person off the screen.
[00:12:55] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, absolutely. Like, I'm probably gonna call her when I get off this good podcast with you, so.
[00:13:00] Speaker B: Yeah, well, you know, set that up. Go ahead and run that. Tell her, you know, we need.
[00:13:05] Speaker A: Listen, I'll hook it up. Whoever you want to interview.
[00:13:08] Speaker B: Oh, word. Okay, I got a list now. I do watch the show. Okay, so I got a list of people. Yeah.
So with you and her. So she's the closest off the screen or whatever.
On the screen. Who was, like, your favorite, like, as you watch. Cause I know you watched your own show.
[00:13:28] Speaker A: Oh, right now.
[00:13:30] Speaker B: Oh, you trying to run them numbers up. I feel you.
[00:13:33] Speaker A: I like to watch it. I was like, oh, shoot. I didn't notice that the first 17 times I watched it. Yeah, yeah.
[00:13:38] Speaker B: I gotta run season two back again. Cause I was, like, four episodes. I gotta. I gotta see it again. And I think the time between season one, I might have to run back the whole thing. Cause the time between season one and season two was a little lengthy, so.
[00:13:55] Speaker A: Yeah, so you gotta refresh.
[00:13:57] Speaker B: I gotta refresh, yeah. But y'all did one thing, like, with new shows now, like, especially, like, streaming services shows, they always do, like, a recap of what happened in the previous season or the previous episode or whatever. So it kind of, you know, give you a refresher. But I'm gonna go back and watch both seasons again.
But, like, watching it. Who was, like, your favorite character watching it.
[00:14:25] Speaker A: There we go. Can you hear me?
[00:14:27] Speaker B: Yeah, I can hear you. Now, I said, who's your, like, watching it? Who is your favorite character?
[00:14:32] Speaker A: Tasha. Tasha, when I tell you, I. Arlene is crazy and I be cracking up watching her, like, the eye rolls that she gives when somebody mentioned Sonia's name. She is a nut. So. Laughing. I love her character.
[00:14:51] Speaker B: It was a scene with her.
I want to say it was episode four of this season when her. And what's Dana's character's name?
[00:15:00] Speaker A: Michelle.
[00:15:01] Speaker B: Michelle. When they, like, first met up, and they were arranging whatever, and she had the braids or whatever, and I was like, dang, who is that? That lady right there look familiar? And I was like, oh, shoot, that's a. That's Tasha.
[00:15:14] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:15:15] Speaker B: Tasha looking like a.
[00:15:18] Speaker A: Set it off. She would like. She, like a stud straight from the chair.
[00:15:23] Speaker B: So. All right, so she's your favorite to watch. Who's your least favorite character?
[00:15:28] Speaker A: Oh, this season. So the first season it was probably Demetrius.
This season, it might be Richard.
[00:15:41] Speaker B: Mmm. And Richard. Richard plays.
[00:15:44] Speaker A: He is the doctor's husband.
[00:15:47] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:15:48] Speaker A: Yeah, because we didn't.
[00:15:51] Speaker B: Last season, didn't he put hands on her?
No, I'm thinking about.
[00:15:57] Speaker A: Oh, okay. Yeah, he kind of grabbed her up in the last episode when he threw the money at her. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:16:06] Speaker B: And then.
[00:16:06] Speaker A: So this season, learning about who he is, it's probably like, oh, I don't like this dude.
[00:16:13] Speaker B: Like, oh, especially that flashback scene with the baby. And. Yeah, yeah, that was. That was. That was some dirty business.
Now, now, when you're doing. When you're playing Sonya, do you have a headache?
[00:16:29] Speaker A: No.
[00:16:30] Speaker B: Cause Sonya face be ball up all the time. You ain't that much tension right up in here.
[00:16:37] Speaker A: But you know what? It's crazy because I think that's a Sierra thing, and I do have to release that. And I saw that a lot in this season. I was like, girl.
So that's why I watch it so much, because I'm like, don't do that next season.
[00:16:50] Speaker B: Oh, so you want to do that? Okay. You want to get pointers and tips for yourself.
So what's. What's next for. For you? Is it more shows like this or.
[00:17:07] Speaker A: Well, acting is something that I'm really enjoying, so I definitely need to jump into some classes just to perfect this craft of mine. But after this, we do have a play coming up with tangy again, I believe, at the top of the year. So other than preparing for season three and anticipating the release of part two, then I'll be focusing on, you know, getting ready for the play.
[00:17:36] Speaker B: So. And so you said, you don't know when season two is. The second part of season two is coming up.
[00:17:42] Speaker A: I'm thinking it'll be before the fall is over, but I'm not sure yet. That I don't know. But when we find out, you guys.
[00:17:50] Speaker B: Will find out, definitely. Please let us know. Cause we looking forward to that. I wanted to ask you, too, you being an actress, who is some. Some people you look up to, like, who is your favorite actor or actress.
[00:18:03] Speaker A: Female wise?
I love, like, the ranges of people like Sanaa and these black ladies, Sanai, Viola and Nia and Regina. Both king and hall men.
Denzel, of course, Will. He's. He hasn't done a lot, a lot of stuff lately, but he has some range, and I love that.
Yeah, a lot of them. And who else?
I can see their faces, but I can't get their names right now.
[00:18:48] Speaker B: I think that's. Did you say Denzel? Yeah. That's good.
[00:18:51] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. He probably all I needed. I do like. I like white ladies, too now. I like Ann Hathaway. I love Anna her. Natalie Portman. Like, women like that. I love Meryl Streep. I love all of them because they have layers. You can see them play anything. James Morrison. He's a white guy. James, yes. He played in one of my favorite animated movies. It's called Enchanted. He was the prince, Prince Charming. But he also played Kennedy in. What's the movie. Oh, what's the movie that Oprah was in with Forest Whitaker?
[00:19:27] Speaker B: The Butler.
[00:19:27] Speaker A: And he was like, the butler. Yes, he was. He was Kennedy in the butler.
[00:19:32] Speaker B: But I love James. What?
[00:19:34] Speaker A: His name is James Marsden. M a r s d e n.
I love. I love him. I just think he's a really great actor when they can transition.
And he was storm and x. He was not storm. He was Scott and X. Mendez.
[00:19:52] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He's playing.
[00:19:55] Speaker A: I like him.
Yeah. He's done a lot. Yeah. But I just love the range of. I can be funny. I can be serious. I can whatever. Like, I just. I love that.
[00:20:05] Speaker B: Yeah. I've seen him in some romantic comedies, I think, before. Yeah.
[00:20:10] Speaker A: Yeah. He's been in some of them.
[00:20:12] Speaker B: So you're on tell of it. Is it any, like, shows you watch or movies you watch to kind of get your inspiration for Sonia?
[00:20:21] Speaker A: For Sonia, to be honest, I haven't found complete inspiration for her yet. And I say that because I don't know if I can think of anyone who is hiding so much. I feel like her past, Sonia's past is so heavy and being that I don't fully know what her past is, her past is so heavy, I can't find anyone or haven't been able to find anyone who has a heavy enough burden.
But I do take inspiration from just fight like people I see all the time just fighting for something, because it's clear in this season that she is doing all of this for a reason. She has her why, and everybody sees her why. Now they know she has a kid, and she's obviously doing something for him and to get him back.
So I take the inspiration from just kind of like everyday women who are fighting for their families or making sure they do whatever they got to do to get where they got to get. And that's what I've been doing when it relates to her character.
[00:21:27] Speaker B: How much of Sierra is insania Sonia?
[00:21:33] Speaker A: A little bit. Probably about 45%.
[00:21:37] Speaker B: 45%? That's more than a little bit.
So it's not half and that 45% or is it the 55% in the 45%?
Is the white man lover in that 45%?
For everybody listening, just listening. The eye roll. You could hear the eye roll just now.
[00:22:05] Speaker A: I do not discriminate, okay. I will say that love has no color. However, I love love. You love, love black men. I love love, but I love black men. So if I had to pick, I would always choose a black.
[00:22:25] Speaker B: Oh, okay. All right.
[00:22:26] Speaker A: But, Sonia, if a white man come and sweep me on my foot, just.
[00:22:30] Speaker B: 1Ft both of them. See, we gotta see, if it was a black man, he would have to sweep you off both your feet. But the white man only had a sweep one.
We gotta work twice as hard, fellas.
Yeah, but before we get out of here, let everybody know what you want everybody to know your social media and stuff.
Yeah. Let everybody know your social media where they can find you, where they can find your show and all of that stuff.
[00:23:00] Speaker A: Okay? So again, my name is C era and my social media handles. On Instagram is the sign m I s s n I s t a, which is Miss Nista. And the shows page is.
Hold on. Oh, no. The show's page is. What is it? The original? Oh, my gosh. I don't know it. I don't know it by heart.
[00:23:26] Speaker B: I do. Let me see if I can find it real quick.
[00:23:28] Speaker A: I think it's secrets, the original series. I believe that's what it is. At secrets, the original series.
[00:23:33] Speaker B: We'll go with that.
[00:23:36] Speaker A: But if you go on your search page and you just type in secrets in plain sight, it should come up viewers.
[00:23:44] Speaker B: I'm gonna do it right now.
[00:23:45] Speaker A: And then if you. And if you go to my page, I actually have the link to the show in my bio. So even if you go to my page, you can find the show and you can find a lot of tags from the page on there. But I do believe the secrets the original series.
[00:24:01] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm looking for. I see a Wild Productions, LLC. I see that one.
[00:24:05] Speaker A: Yeah. While is on there. Go to my page real quick. My instagram. And, like, the first one of those pin posts, it should be me. And secrets tagged in.
[00:24:15] Speaker B: It just says miss Nista.
[00:24:18] Speaker A: Mm hmm.
Mis says underscore Nista.
[00:24:23] Speaker B: Oh, hold on.
[00:24:24] Speaker A: You just.
[00:24:24] Speaker B: Okay. One of the pin posts.
[00:24:27] Speaker A: Mm hmm.
[00:24:28] Speaker B: Secrets dot original series. That's it.
[00:24:31] Speaker A: Okay. Secrets that original dot original series. Okay.
[00:24:35] Speaker B: Because somebody probably stole secrets.
[00:24:37] Speaker A: Probably.
[00:24:38] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:24:39] Speaker A: You know, and.
Yeah, so, yeah, go check us out. We're on to be streaming right now.
[00:24:45] Speaker B: Yep. And it's. I think it's eight episodes in the first season.
[00:24:50] Speaker A: No, in the first season is five.
[00:24:52] Speaker B: Five in the first season.
[00:24:53] Speaker A: Yeah. The second one is four. But this, this first season. Now, the first season, the episodes are much shorter. But we heard y'all, y'all say you need to be longer and they need to be more. So the second season, the episodes are about 50 minutes each. So you got time to sit down and binge watch it with your snacks.
[00:25:12] Speaker B: Mm hmm.
[00:25:12] Speaker A: And it's a blanket.
[00:25:13] Speaker B: And like you said, the first season isn't. Is it? The first season isn't that long, so you can binge that too. So, yeah. So, um, Sarah, I appreciate you stopping through being on with me and answering my questions. I look forward to the second part of season two and season three, but, yeah.
[00:25:34] Speaker A: Thank you.
[00:25:34] Speaker B: Brand.
[00:25:35] Speaker A: Be easy.
[00:25:35] Speaker B: There you go. Don't get my government like that. You know what I'm saying?
[00:25:38] Speaker A: People don't know me because I was about to say what came up in the email. Cause.
[00:25:43] Speaker B: Oh, you can say that too. Go ahead.
[00:25:44] Speaker A: Let me call you Elijah.
[00:25:46] Speaker B: There you go. Now y'all know my whole government name.
That's a secret. That's in plain sight of.
[00:25:54] Speaker A: Thank you so much for having me.
[00:25:56] Speaker B: Thank you.
[00:25:57] Speaker A: You're welcome.
[00:26:03] Speaker B: Well, that was my interview with Miss Sierra s folder. Y'all saw. Well, y'all heard how to get in contact with her with a west. Watch the show.
I appreciate her coming through and asking the questions. Email us, DJ
[email protected]. let us know what y'all thought about the interview. If you watch the show, what you think about the show, and if there's anybody from their show that y'all want to, you know, have me to sit down with.
I did. You know, that. That white man situation on there, you know, I'm saying. And then, so here's the thing. Y'all on the scene, she get up in the morning after they, you know, half courtesy, and she still had clothes on. She still had a bra. Who, which one of y'all women still sleep with a bra on? That's the only thing I called cap on on this whole series that she got up with a bra on. She had a little explanation. I had to message her and ask about that, but I didn't buy it. I didn't buy it. And I didn't want to say here, her mama might listen. She might tell her mama to listen or something. So I ain't want to get that answer here. But, um. Yeah, um. Yeah, man, if y'all listen to the show, I mean, if y'all watch her show, you know, let us know what you think about it. Djblaishermail.com.
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I'll be back next week, next Wednesday with another interview episode.
But at any rate, thank you all for listening.
And I'm out.
[00:27:47] Speaker A: Let those who have ears listen.
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