Tichina Arnold Reveals Her Largest Worry
With Halloween season comes a contemporary new crop of horror motion pictures for individuals who love the joys of all issues freakish and scary. The brand new film Countdown, starring actress Tichina Arnold (Martin, Everyone Hates Chris, Survivor’s Regret) and Jordan Calloway (Drumline, Riverdale, Black Lightning) is amongst this 12 months’s creepy crop.
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We’re loving the truth that two of our BET alumnae (Arnold co-hosted the 2018 Soul Prepare Awards and is returning for 2019 and Calloway simply starred within the BETHer film All the time a Bridesmaid) are collectively on this new movie, which explores the thought of an app that may predict precisely when you’ll die.
Arnold, who performs Nurse Amy in Countdown, shared in a name with BET.com: “I needed to be part of this undertaking, as a result of it was only a nice script! I stored studying it and imagining what if that is actual? I’d freak out if this was actual. My character is completely a mirrored image of who I’m. I’m like, ‘I’m not touching that app!’”
BET spoke with Arnold and Calloway main as much as the movie’s launch to debate their would-be Halloween costumes and what horrifies them in actual life.
BET: Countdown is a couple of literal killer app. Is there a selected app that you just simply can’t dwell with out?
Arnold: The app that I exploit on a regular basis is the SAG Aftra app, my union’s app. I might see my medical health insurance and test all the pieces concerning my enterprise of present. It’s my number-one precedence, exterior of my daughter, Alijah Kai.
Calloway: Uber Eats. I’ve truly been fairly good, however it may possibly get fairly dangerous. It could actually flip into 4, 5 occasions per week. Like proper now I’m coping with a chilly, so I don’t actually wish to exit on this Atlanta 45-degree climate. I do know it’s not brisk, however for me, a California boy, it feels prefer it. Generally you simply want some good meals… now you bought me interested by meals!
BET: In case you might create your very personal app, what would it not be?
Arnold: Me. An app that’s about me, and for me, and for those who wish to have enjoyable with me. I began working by myself app and I by no means completed, however I do wish to have my very own app, only a approach that I can talk with individuals differently and simply be a bit of extra personable. I’d simply randomly inform everybody, “Yeah, guess what guys? I do know it’s 2 o’ clock within the morning, however I really feel like singing some Dionne Warwick, who’s up for it? I’m additionally a foodie… I journey the world to eat, a minimum of I attempt to. I like it.
Calloway: It looks like there’s an app for all the pieces proper now. How about an app to ensure you don’t lose your keys? Have they got an app for that? Or an app that will inform you if a lady’s loopy or not earlier than you date her. And you realize what, we are able to’t be one-sided — we gotta make it for males too. We gotta have the ability to assist the women out as properly!
BET: The Countdown app freaks just a few of us out within the film, to say the least. What’s that one factor in actual life that scares you?
Arnold: The one factor that freaks me out actually is these water bugs, these massive cockroach issues. Oh, my God! I’ll lose it. You wish to see me lose it? I virtually dropped my child. Alijah was a child and I noticed one and I virtually dropped her and left her there proper the place the cockroach was. I used to be outta there. Thank God I didn’t drop my child. I can’t stand these issues, they usually hang-out me. I’ve gone all the best way over to Japan, I did the USO Tour, and honey I acquired on a kind of bases and opened the door, and there have been three massive cockroaches sitting there ready for me. I stated, “Why me, God, why me?”
Calloway: Clowns are the one factor that I can not do. My brother and cousin had me locked within the room with them again after I was 6 years previous, they usually thought it might be a good suggestion to have me watch It with them. I needed to watch each! That’s the place my phobia of clowns got here from. On sight, they might catch it — that’s all I’m saying.
BET: In case you have been to attend a Halloween get together, what would you go as?
Arnold: I wish to do a spin on Maleficent. The Black model — cheekbones and all of that. I’d positively placed on my hoop earrings, give her an Afro, simply make her a good looking Black queen.
Calloway: I form of wished to do a gaggle costume with my boys and I’d most likely do the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with a twist on it, so it’s like horny Mutant Ninja Turtles. We horny turtles… in a shell. You ain’t seen it accomplished but! It’s most likely not gonna occur, but it surely’s OK to dream!
Catch Tichina and Jordan in Countdown at a theater close to you!
