INTERVIEW: Meagan Good on Being Underestimated in Hollywood & Breaking Out of the Pretty Girl Box

SPEAKER_1 (0:00)

Hold up, every day I wake up, wake yo ass up, it's The Breakfast Club. We gon finish or y'all done?

DJ Envy (0:08)

Morning, everybody, it's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God, we are The Breakfast Club. Lauren LaRosa's here as well. We got a special guest in the building.

Meagan Good (0:16)

Yes, indeed.

DJ Envy (0:17)

Meagan Good, welcome back.

Jess Hilarious (0:18)

What's up?

DJ Envy (0:19)

How you feeling?

Meagan Good (0:20)

I'm feeling good.

Jess Hilarious (0:21)

And you smell good, what is that?

Meagan Good (0:22)

Thank you, I received that in Jesus' name.

I don't know what it's called. It's a perfume that Jonathan bought for me that I smelled somewhere and I fell in love with it. He went back a week later and I still don't know the name of it.

Jess Hilarious (0:32)

I know that's right, John.

DJ Envy (0:34)

Yes.

Charlamagne Tha God (0:37)

Well, salute to you. You were just in here giving head tutorials as well.

DJ Envy (0:40)

Yes, this is true. Yes, I was talking about how- He said head tutorial. I'm like, yeah, that sounded crazy.

Jess Hilarious (0:45)

Yeah, I was like, hair.

SPEAKER_1 (0:46)

It sounded like you said head. I did.

DJ Envy (0:48)

That's why I said hair. How does that sound like that? It definitely did. Definitely sounded like head tutorial. That's why I said hair.

Lauren LaRosa (0:53)

And your tongue is big. But that's what it sounded like.

Charlamagne Tha God (0:56)

You know what? Reasonable doubt season four.

Lauren LaRosa (0:59)

Yes.

Charlamagne Tha God (1:00)

Season four.

Meagan Good (1:03)

It's getting spicy over here.

Charlamagne Tha God (1:05)

You're playing a district attorney, right?

DJ Envy (1:07)

Yes.

Charlamagne Tha God (1:08)

I think I saw you say before that if you weren't an actor, you would have been a lawyer.

Meagan Good (1:11)

1000 percent.

Charlamagne Tha God (1:11)

What is it about law and justice that has always interested you?

Meagan Good (1:14)

I like to argue.

DJ Envy (1:17)

Poor John.

Meagan Good (1:17)

No, no.

DJ Envy (1:19)

Young Dolph.

Charlamagne Tha God (1:19)

Young Dolph says she like to argue so much since the law school.

Lauren LaRosa (1:24)

No, I do. I really do.

Meagan Good (1:25)

I like looking at facts. I like having a good argument. I like playing devil's advocate. I don't get super emotional about what I'm trying to prove, even though I can be very passionate. And I'm okay with not changing someone's mind as long as we're growing and educating each other through the process. But yeah, I rarely lose an argument.

Charlamagne Tha God (1:43)

So Devil's Advocate was one of your favorite movies, huh?

Meagan Good (1:46)

I did like that movie. Yeah, that was great.

DJ Envy (1:48)

So you can agree to disagree in an argument then?

But not necessarily? 1000%. Okay.

Meagan Good (1:52)

1000%, yeah.

DJ Envy (1:53)

Because most people that like to argue, there's no agreeing to disagreeing. You better take my point or we gonna keep arguing even if it takes seven days.

Meagan Good (1:59)

But I'm like when you argue, we were just talking about this yesterday. When you argue with someone, I feel like the point is not to get them to agree with you, but to get them to understand where you're coming from. And I think a lot of people argue to try to change the other person's mind. I'm like, you're gonna disappoint yourself. Like half the time a person, even if you have changed their mind, they have too much pride to admit it. So it's not really about that. It's about understanding each other, I think.

Charlamagne Tha God (2:19)

After playing a prosecutor, do you have a different perspective on how justice works?

Meagan Good (2:25)

That's so long. But yeah, in a way, I do. I mean, some people are really good at their jobs. Some people aren't. And I think for me, the perspective is really interesting because I learned a lot about how all this gets rolled out and the research that you do and a little bit about law. And so I guess I would say I have a different perspective, yeah.

DJ Envy (2:45)

Now, last time you were up here, we were talking about social media and you said at one point it was getting to you and it was pissing you off at times. It says, that released it all.

Meagan Good (2:52)

Oh yeah.

DJ Envy (2:53)

So you don't let that affect you at all? No. Not at all?

Meagan Good (2:55)

No, I don't care.

Jess Hilarious (2:57)

You unplug, you'd be like, after internet, you don't.