- I represent.
- [All] Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University,
October 3rd, 1887.
What?
- Welcome!
My name is Chelsea Drew Maloney.
I'm a third-year performing arts scholar,
here at FAMU.
Florida A&M University was founded October 3rd, 1887
here in Tallahassee, Florida.
A fun fact about FAMU is that we were ranked
the number one public HBCU
by Times, Money Magazine and Black Enterprise.
Now for some fun facts about everyone's favorite HBCU,
GAMU.
Co-creator and executive producer Felicia D. Henderson
is taking you behind the scenes
with The Quad's Office Hours, next.
♪ All my sisters and brothers ♪
♪ Rise up together ♪
- Hi, this is Felicia D. Henderson
and you just watched The Beautiful Struggle
Episode 208 of The Quad, written by Randy Huggins.
Every week I am repping a different HBCU.
This week it is Huston-Tillotson University,
which is in Austin, Texas.
I chose this school because I am a professor
at the University of Texas, Austin
and Houston-Tillotson is right up the street.
So thank you so much,
and please join me for another episode.
Tonight, we're gonna talk to the writers.
- And we should also start by saying
we're missing some of our comrades.
- Yes. - Oh, yes.
- Yes. - We are, we are.
Randy and Sara.
- Yes, Randy Huggins and Sara Finney-Johnson.
Sara, as recently as last night,
was sitting and editing with the editor.
So she's back in LA while we're here in Atlanta.
And Randy, I don't know where Randy is.
- Probably in the the Mercedes Benz Stadium bar crying,
(Felicia laughs)
because Grambling just lost. - Grambling lost.
- [Felicia] They lost.
- To North Carolina A&T. (Felicia gasping)
- Okay, well we just saw Episode 8
which is called The Beautiful Struggle.
Obviously I'm borrowing from yet another great book
in the African American cannon.
And this episode is chock full of goodness.
It's about time to talk to the writers.
Let's talk about our favorite moments of the season so far.
It's like 208, we only have two more left.
- Director Diamond, may I speak candidly?
- I wouldn't have it any other way.
- You're a bad man.
- What I love in 208 is Noni finally faces up
to Diamond and just says, what the heck have I been doing?
She's been so enthralled with trying to please him
and make him happy and achieve her dream
that she sacrificed some other fundamental
parts of who she is.
So, that's one of my favorite moments of the season.
- [Felicia] Of Noni coming into her own.
- Yeah.
- Yeah. - Yes.
- I think my favorite moment was on the bus.
- Do you have any idea how upsetting that was?
- None of this would've gone down
if you hadn't been flirting with Dwight!
- Flirting with...
What does it matter if she was flirting with...
Wait.
Y'all smashin'?
(laughter) - I don't think anybody
(Felicia laughing) was expecting that,
and these are the fun moments
in writing-- - I know!
- Where you get to sneak those little things in.
- Yeah.
- I'm the baby writer, so I gotta say
the house party in 203.
(hip hop music) (Felicia laughing)
Just 'cause the kids were like,
they're having fun. - The pajama party, right?
- The pajama jam! - Yes!
The pajama-- - It was great.
Even Sydney comes out and enjoys herself
which is such a big thing for her
in her character development through the season.
It was just nice to see everyone.
And then there's a really random hookup
that no one saw coming, (laughter)
which was great.
- [Felicia] Really random,
but it really worked. - Very random.
It made sense.
It definitely made sense. - Yes.
- And we saw characters interacting that didn't normally
interact in the first season. - Exactly.
- That was a big part of this season, wasn't it?
That we wanted to do was to find ways
for characters who normally wouldn't be together based on,
certainly the relationships we built in the first season--
- Right.
- To find characters in the second season reasons.
And it was something quite frankly that the network,
that BET wanted us to do,
was to find ways to get characters
who wouldn't normally cross to cross.
So we spent a lot of our story time coming up with ways
for why would these characters be together
all the way to the end of the season,
which we can't tell you about just yet,
but boy did we find a way for them to all
(laughing) be together,
in the end. - Yeah.
- Yeah, it's for the greater cause,
which is nice. - That's right.
- But also in 208 there's a nice mix because we have Ebonie,
we have Noni, we have Cedric...
- Uh, what up y'all?
- Coming together, and Bronwyn,
in a very sort of dynamic and surprising way.
- It was a really important thing in this episode for us to,
(symphonic music)
yes, we know about the kick ass marching bands at HBCUs,
but we also know that that's not all that they do.
And so symphonic music was a very important part
of this episode, but still show it in a way
that would feel HBCU-specific.
And I really feel like we nailed that.
(symphonic music)
We're all about themes,
so we're always looking for our themes.
And finding Battle of Jericho,
because Horace Cecil Diamond at this point,
he is in an uphill battle;
it is the Battle of Jericho for him.
He must win this competition.
And to find a way to bring that song thematically in...
And big props of course to our executive band consultant,
Don Roberts, who is just the man for finding a way
to take another look at the Battle of Jericho
and to create a very special version of that song for us.
And of course, Wendy and I until the day we die,
will fight over RonReaco Lee.
(all laugh)
So we have to find a way to bring RonReaco back in Season 2
in this most wonderful, wonderful way.
(audience applauding) And he's killing it.
What would you like to do in Season 3?
- Some of the characters that we'd just like to mix it up
and put characters who have not crossed
and not been seen partners so much
in the first two seasons-- - Yes.
- And figure out story ways to get them together.
- I would love to see, just kinda,
I guess the repercussions or what will happen
with Cedric and Bronwyn.
- You and I aren't together,
so why are you pressing me so hard about this?
- Because I'm pregnant, Cedric.
- And then of course, you know like Kevin said,
I've always wanted to see Cedric and BoJohn interact.
Just because they seem so different, but like,
you know you see them kind of in the quad sometimes,
and in 206 they have their moment,
but to really see those two characters have a friendship
would be great. - Yeah, it's so funny,
you just reminded me that in the pilot
there was a whole story line for them.
- Yeah!
- And then you know, you're too long and something has to go
and that was what went.
But we were starting them off in a very interesting way
and, you know, sort of both tough guys in their own way
and how they would be when they came against each other.
And then it was very long and something had to go.
Who is your favorite character to write and why?
- How do you do it?
Balancing the frat, the resistance, and all those girls.
- I can see how a lot of writers really, really like Noni
'cause she's a little odd.
- She's very odd.
- You know, she has all those insecurities,
and it sort of presents in an interesting way,
in an awkward way. - Yeah.
- And I think that a lot of writers feel
that way about themselves and so...
- Yeah, it's a good one. - That is true.
Writers do feel that way.
- And you feel like you wanna defend her constantly.
And that's what you do as writers,
you're defending these characters.
I loved writing for Sydney and BoJohn.
Just because I think they're just such complex characters.
In particular Sydney, 'cause of what she's gone through,
she's such a book you can just judge by the cover.
- Yeah, yeah.
- And then BoJohn just because of everything
that's happening to him.
It's like, what is happening to him?
What is he going through?
- And where we're about to go with him.
- And where we're about to go
with him. - Oh, brother! (laughs)
- Exactly.
But those I feel like...
Noni for sure,
but Sydney and BoJohn are a lot of fun to write and explore.
- Ey, my favorite's the most complicated.
Eva! - Within the room.
- Eva-- - Yeah, Eva always... (laughs)
- Eva-- - Oh yes.
- We never-- - Eva, ey,
that's the most complicated.
To me, that is a gymnasium.
- Yeah, you're so right about that.
And it is also why there are so many conversations
with the network about her.
She is complicated and they're like, "She did this!
"And now she's doing this,
"and that is not necessarily "consistent with that."
And I go, exactly.
- Any word on Flip Lawson?
- I called his office three times
and left word for him to return.
- Call him again.
Try his cell,
try his house,
try his mother's nursing home.
Find him!
- She is that kind of complicated
and that's why she's fun to write.
We can give the people a little bit of tease.
Rose is also a spoken word poet,
and so we felt like that should become part
of the show in some way.
The beautiful thing is that you wrote something
for an episode that's coming up.
- Yeah, and that was exciting 'cause I know you wanted
to do that, incorporate spoken word poetry,
and sometimes it can seem so forced.
And this was just a very organic placement of it.
- I found her EW Smith.
Heard a chorus line of footsteps,
mistook them for heartbeats
so he readied himself for the birth.
Curled his hand around the torch to pass it on!
- [Crowd] Yeah!
- No man should have to be led to freedom.
- Something like that. - That's coming up.
Very close to that is coming in...
(laughs) to an episode in the future.
Thank you, Rose!
- (mumbles) No, thank you. - Episode 209 and 210.
Give it up!
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♪ Rise up together ♪
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