Flaawsome Talk with Kjersti Flaa - July 12, 2025


Ep 7： Felisha Cooper was discovered by Blake Lively's mother.


Episode Stats

Length

33 minutes

Words per Minute

184.08275

Word Count

6,104

Sentence Count

562

Misogynist Sentences

31

Hate Speech Sentences

11


Summary

Actress Felicia Cooper joins me to talk about how she became a star in Hollywood and how she got her start as a waitress at the Cheesecake Factory. She also shares the story of how she was discovered by Blake Lively s mom, Elaine Lively.


Transcript

00:00:00.480 Elaine Lively. Ernie Lively.
00:00:03.480 Got it, everybody.
00:00:04.520 Now, should we call her mom?
00:00:11.580 Hi, and welcome to Flawsome Talk, the podcast.
00:00:15.120 I am Kjasti Flo, and here on this podcast,
00:00:18.180 I talk about other things that I talk about,
00:00:20.480 usually on my YouTube show,
00:00:22.240 where I publish an episode every day,
00:00:24.200 mostly talking about Blake Lively
00:00:25.900 and Justin Baldoni's legal feud.
00:00:27.440 Here on my podcast, I have different guests
00:00:29.840 and I do talk about other things going on in Hollywood
00:00:32.280 and the hypocrisy that keeps pouring out of that town.
00:00:36.620 Anyways, today I have a very special guest.
00:00:38.700 Her name is Felicia Cooper.
00:00:40.180 She's an actress.
00:00:41.020 She's been working in Hollywood for over 15 years,
00:00:44.740 and I promise you, you are going to fall in love with her.
00:00:48.060 She's so sweet, and her story is so fascinating.
00:00:51.180 She started as a waitress at the Cheesecake Factory,
00:00:55.080 and guess who discovered her?
00:00:58.020 Blake Lively's mother.
00:01:00.660 Here is Felicia Cooper.
00:01:02.620 Felicia Cooper, thank you for being on Flawsome Talk.
00:01:06.180 You are so sweet.
00:01:08.000 Like I just said, I just want to hug you.
00:01:10.120 I mean, I'm so grateful that you're here,
00:01:12.660 and you have so much to share with us,
00:01:14.860 because you are in the industry.
00:01:16.980 You're an actress.
00:01:18.380 You've been on some big TV shows.
00:01:21.940 Do you want to talk a little bit about the shows you've been on,
00:01:25.220 and movies and projects that you have?
00:01:27.900 Yes, I would love to.
00:01:29.360 What's the most famous one that you know?
00:01:31.160 Because the first one I want to do is Swedish Dicks that I did.
00:01:33.860 I played a fast-talking lawyer,
00:01:36.020 and we had a bunch of people from like Norway and Sweden and stuff.
00:01:39.760 It's probably my favorite role to date,
00:01:42.560 because everyone was so kind.
00:01:44.460 The script was so fun.
00:01:45.720 Peter Stormare is my TV dad,
00:01:47.500 and I still talk to him to this day.
00:01:49.460 We talk all the time.
00:01:50.680 He's like, oh, my sweet daughter, Sarah.
00:01:52.480 And I was like, that's not how you say it,
00:01:54.880 but I'm learning.
00:01:56.020 I learned Swedish.
00:01:57.200 I learned Swedish on set.
00:01:58.860 He's a legend.
00:01:59.900 He is a really funny guy.
00:02:01.300 I've met him a few times.
00:02:02.600 He's hilarious.
00:02:04.800 Dad is crazy, wacky, hilarious,
00:02:07.580 and I love that I still get to call him dad,
00:02:09.380 and he calls me daughter and Sarah and just whatever things.
00:02:12.580 And we're supposed to have, he's filming right now.
00:02:15.780 We were supposed to have lunch this June,
00:02:17.680 but, of course, he's whisked away to some other film.
00:02:19.940 And I'm like, Dad, can you get back in town?
00:02:22.300 We've got to have lunch.
00:02:24.980 I love that.
00:02:26.000 So you have Swedish shticks.
00:02:27.440 You have other TV shows.
00:02:29.020 You have movies.
00:02:30.480 So how long have you been working in Hollywood?
00:02:35.300 In Hollywood itself, 15 years.
00:02:37.340 I just hit my 15-year anniversary,
00:02:39.040 but I've been acting on stage since I was six years old.
00:02:42.920 Wow.
00:02:43.320 So you were like?
00:02:45.340 Yeah.
00:02:45.880 I'm originally from Fayetteville, North Carolina.
00:02:47.980 Shout out to Cape Fear Regional Theater,
00:02:50.000 Little Broadway,
00:02:50.940 and we would come from musical theater,
00:02:52.880 and so I know the stage before I know the screen first.
00:02:55.820 That's actually pretty good, I think,
00:02:57.180 to have had that experience
00:02:58.600 because I think a lot of the times it makes you a better actor.
00:03:02.040 I don't know.
00:03:02.480 Maybe it's just me,
00:03:03.280 but I feel like if you're a theater actor,
00:03:04.680 if you can do that, you can do anything.
00:03:06.860 Is that right to say that, you think?
00:03:08.740 I mean?
00:03:08.980 I've heard that from a lot of coaches and teachers and stuff,
00:03:12.240 so thank you so much.
00:03:13.300 I'm very versatile from what I hear,
00:03:15.480 but I'm also very down to earth,
00:03:17.440 so I'm like, this is just like what I do for a job.
00:03:19.900 But I really do appreciate my theater training before film
00:03:24.540 because film can get, like, constrained.
00:03:28.060 When you want to express yourself,
00:03:29.760 so to know how to go, like, from the stage to the screen,
00:03:32.780 from the stage to the screen,
00:03:34.100 and that is a dynamic that I'm very thankful
00:03:36.920 that I have the knowledge of.
00:03:39.100 So you were kind of discovered, you told me,
00:03:42.300 by someone very special.
00:03:45.140 Yes, I was.
00:03:46.020 You have to tell this story.
00:03:48.900 So Blake Lively's mother came up to you, right?
00:03:53.280 So please share that story.
00:03:54.840 It's a very sweet story, actually.
00:03:56.920 Okay.
00:03:57.420 So it was my third day at the Cheesecake Factory
00:04:00.000 where I was waiting tables,
00:04:01.260 and her and Uncle Ernie, make he rest,
00:04:05.480 come up to me.
00:04:06.720 They're very sweet and very kind,
00:04:08.000 and she goes, there is a magic in your eyes.
00:04:10.760 And I was like, well, thank you.
00:04:13.280 Thank you very much.
00:04:14.840 And then so I send them to their table.
00:04:17.120 They order their food.
00:04:17.940 They have everything.
00:04:19.080 Before they leave, she comes up to me,
00:04:21.100 and she goes, hi, I want to give you my card.
00:04:23.020 My name is Elaine Lively, as in my daughter Blake.
00:04:25.560 Do you know who that is?
00:04:29.240 This is when Gossip Girl was hot, right?
00:04:31.260 Like, yeah, I know who the hell that is.
00:04:33.780 I didn't say that, but I was thinking that.
00:04:36.100 But I was like, wait, what?
00:04:39.360 Whose mom thinks me from North Carolina is special?
00:04:42.900 Okay, so sure.
00:04:44.400 So she was my first manager
00:04:45.900 and took me under her wing and stuff,
00:04:50.040 and that's pretty much how we met,
00:04:51.660 how I got started in the Lively family.
00:04:53.620 And Blake's sister, Robin, was my acting coach.
00:04:57.620 Her sister, Lori, was my acting coach.
00:04:59.240 And, yeah.
00:05:01.820 Wow, so you really got to know the family.
00:05:04.200 How was Blake's mom?
00:05:05.440 I feel like a lot of people want to know
00:05:07.120 what she's really like,
00:05:08.400 because you feel like, you know,
00:05:10.080 Apple don't fall far,
00:05:11.620 but you said you had kind of a different experience
00:05:15.000 from her than you had with Blake.
00:05:16.800 Yeah, so, shit, what do I do?
00:05:21.760 Sorry, can I say that on camera?
00:05:24.220 You can say anything.
00:05:26.320 Okay, so she was,
00:05:28.020 they were always very sweet and hospitable to me.
00:05:30.500 Like, I would be up in their apartment
00:05:31.800 at the Cheesecake Factory,
00:05:33.080 because they live right there at the Americana,
00:05:34.580 and her magazines or whatever.
00:05:36.160 She would just be like, you know,
00:05:37.040 parents about, you know,
00:05:38.120 proud of their kid and stuff.
00:05:39.500 And I was very sweet, very kind.
00:05:41.380 And there was one time, though,
00:05:44.720 that I had a photo shoot
00:05:46.100 where she tried to dress me like Blake and stuff,
00:05:49.860 and it felt kind of uncomfortable, but...
00:05:52.380 She tried to dress you like Blake?
00:05:54.800 Yeah, because we're around the same height and tall,
00:05:57.460 and it's like what works,
00:05:58.520 so it's, it was like the whole Hollywood thing.
00:06:01.200 She was never rude or mean or anything,
00:06:03.140 but it did, like, it burned my photo shoot,
00:06:07.960 because I was an hour late,
00:06:09.260 just because of,
00:06:11.220 because she wanted to be like, you know...
00:06:12.380 Oh, no.
00:06:13.480 Yeah, but she, but she was,
00:06:14.960 she was very kind and very sweet,
00:06:17.640 and she was like,
00:06:18.460 oh, just go with it, just go with it,
00:06:19.700 just go with it.
00:06:20.240 She was always so supportive of everything
00:06:22.000 that is very genuine to her,
00:06:23.820 of just being supportive,
00:06:24.900 but I was like,
00:06:25.980 I can't be an hour late to this, you know?
00:06:28.320 How long was she a manager for?
00:06:30.560 Two years.
00:06:31.820 And she got me my first agent.
00:06:32.960 She got me my first agent out here,
00:06:34.940 AEFH, which I love,
00:06:37.040 just a gorgeous agency and stuff,
00:06:39.400 and I think,
00:06:41.520 if I had to say, like,
00:06:42.580 there was a, not a problem,
00:06:43.780 I don't want to put my hands up,
00:06:44.580 but there wasn't a problem,
00:06:45.400 it's just, she was older,
00:06:46.600 she was retiring,
00:06:47.540 Blake was starting to have kids and stuff,
00:06:49.260 and it was, she was just like,
00:06:50.600 you know, kind of getting out of the game,
00:06:52.220 so it was just a little slower pace
00:06:53.540 than me at, you know, 21,
00:06:54.880 who was like, you know,
00:06:55.400 ready to run and be in Hollywood and stuff,
00:06:58.480 so it was just,
00:06:59.860 like, a lot of grandmother type of qualities.
00:07:02.780 Yeah, I'm like,
00:07:03.040 but she was always very lovely to me,
00:07:04.700 like, I have nothing bad to say about her.
00:07:06.940 Did she have a lot of other,
00:07:08.400 did she manage a lot of other actors?
00:07:10.340 I didn't even know she was managing.
00:07:12.460 Yeah, she was managing Gage Golikly,
00:07:15.320 who was on Nickelodeon at the time,
00:07:16.880 and this other guy,
00:07:20.000 I forget his name,
00:07:20.940 because this was 15 years ago,
00:07:22.720 but this other guy who I think was on,
00:07:24.620 like, the Disney Channel or something like that.
00:07:26.160 And then you did have experiences with Blake Lively,
00:07:29.240 which we all, of course, want to hear about.
00:07:31.440 What was your experience with her,
00:07:33.460 and was she very different from the rest of the family?
00:07:36.780 Oh, my God, yes.
00:07:40.020 So, it's a Thursday night.
00:07:41.660 I'm waiting tables at the Cheesecake Factory.
00:07:44.080 And so, Elaine and her family and Uncle Ernie and stuff comes in.
00:07:47.560 I always call him Uncle Ernie, even though he's...
00:07:49.520 Is that the dad?
00:07:51.300 That's the dad.
00:07:52.440 Oh, okay, okay.
00:07:54.040 But it was like my uncle,
00:07:55.220 like Grandpa Ernie or something like that, you know?
00:07:57.200 So, they all come in.
00:07:58.460 It's really late night.
00:07:59.480 We're all waiting tables and stuff.
00:08:01.140 Everyone was so polite to me.
00:08:03.560 Guess who was not?
00:08:05.440 Fake Lively.
00:08:06.760 She just, like, had this, like, little blossom hat on.
00:08:09.940 Ugh.
00:08:10.600 And just, like, scurried around like a little silverfish,
00:08:13.040 just, like, to get to the table.
00:08:14.240 I was like, oh, hi.
00:08:15.920 And just, like, flicked her finger up at me
00:08:17.900 and then went and sat down.
00:08:19.520 I watched her mom be so embarrassed of her
00:08:23.140 and be like, oh, my God, I am so sorry.
00:08:27.180 And I was like, so she just treats people that way?
00:08:32.820 Okay.
00:08:34.720 It was okay.
00:08:35.840 Like, I kept my cool, kept my calm,
00:08:37.300 but she just, she couldn't even be bothered to look at me.
00:08:40.420 She couldn't even be bothered to say hello.
00:08:42.300 And the whole table was embarrassed by her.
00:08:45.640 She's just mean.
00:08:46.620 She's cruel.
00:08:47.320 She's a cruel person.
00:08:48.560 I'll say it out loud.
00:08:49.520 You're not the first person to say that.
00:08:51.380 I've spoke to so many people on camera and off camera,
00:08:54.820 people who contacted me and said very similar stories like that.
00:08:58.800 But I've never heard anyone talk about how she was acting in front of her family.
00:09:03.480 You would think maybe she was a bit nicer when her family was there,
00:09:07.140 but obviously not.
00:09:08.520 But her sisters were nice.
00:09:10.300 And yeah, I remember she ruined this audition for me because I was up for a lead part in the Chronicles of Shannara with Austin Butler.
00:09:19.540 And she had stressed out Robin so badly and her mom right before my audition that I still had to pay for because I was paying for coaching, right?
00:09:28.500 And she had stressed them out so bad.
00:09:30.780 Like Robin couldn't even focus because she was like, Blake is on some bullshit and she's calling my mom and she's doing all this stuff and she's being so, I'm just going to say herself.
00:09:42.720 And it completely destroyed my audition.
00:09:45.320 Robin wasn't happy.
00:09:46.240 And I was like, okay, I somehow got to go into the room and all right.
00:09:52.000 No, she'd gotten a call from her like 15 minutes beforehand and just having to like to jump into it with me and studying and doing all this kind of stuff.
00:10:02.400 And I like overpaid just because Blake was making her sister, like her head a nightmare.
00:10:07.360 And I have no idea why.
00:10:08.880 I don't know.
00:10:09.760 She was crying about something ridiculous like shoes or something.
00:10:14.840 Of course.
00:10:16.340 That makes total sense.
00:10:18.440 But there's another sister too that I think Blake doesn't have really have much contact with.
00:10:22.460 What's her name?
00:10:23.220 Lori?
00:10:23.680 Lori.
00:10:24.240 Yeah.
00:10:24.740 She was my first acting coach too.
00:10:27.500 Although she was like teaching kids at the time.
00:10:29.860 So I was like in a kid's class when I was like 22.
00:10:34.800 But it was very fun.
00:10:36.100 But I was like, I just, I want something grander than this.
00:10:39.180 But yeah, Lori keeps it real.
00:10:42.260 Lori keeps it real.
00:10:44.060 What do you think Blake turned out like that?
00:10:46.020 It's so like interesting to me that you have a family that you know them.
00:10:50.680 I mean, you're saying that the mom is nice, the dad, you call him uncle.
00:10:54.580 You know, they seem like really nice people.
00:10:57.560 Is this too much?
00:10:58.580 Can I show you?
00:10:59.860 Yeah.
00:11:01.360 Hang on.
00:11:04.540 L-I-B-E-L.
00:11:09.320 Elaine Lively.
00:11:11.120 Ernie Lively.
00:11:14.120 Yeah.
00:11:15.820 Got everybody.
00:11:17.720 Should we call her mom?
00:11:19.780 We don't want to stress her.
00:11:21.160 We don't want to stress her out, girl.
00:11:25.000 Wouldn't that be interesting?
00:11:26.820 Oh my gosh.
00:11:28.960 Between me and you, I wore this on purpose.
00:11:33.620 Oh, okay.
00:11:34.700 The torch.
00:11:35.640 Oh, yes.
00:11:37.580 I didn't notice that.
00:11:39.260 Great.
00:11:39.960 Good call.
00:11:40.540 What should I do for this interview?
00:11:42.260 How about we put a little Taylor Swift on it?
00:11:45.600 A little Easter egg there.
00:11:47.460 I love it.
00:11:50.140 Okay.
00:11:50.660 So back to my question.
00:11:51.840 How do you think?
00:11:53.000 I mean, I find it like interesting that one person could end up like that.
00:11:57.620 Do you think it's just the fame that got to her head that made her turn into this kind
00:12:01.620 of really mean person?
00:12:03.640 Me, personally, no.
00:12:05.400 Being from the South, I've met a bunch of bitches like her.
00:12:08.320 And the fact that she is so thirsty for South Carolina and to be a pageant girl, she's just
00:12:16.960 fucking racist.
00:12:18.260 South Carolina wannabe.
00:12:20.720 And I'll tell that to the judge.
00:12:22.280 I've dealt with enough pageant wannabe girls and all this stuff in my life growing up in
00:12:26.800 North Carolina.
00:12:27.620 I'm like, are you for real with this bullshit?
00:12:30.880 Okay.
00:12:31.700 Okay.
00:12:32.120 You might want to clutch your pearls.
00:12:33.140 I think she just has completely lost touch with reality and she lives in a bubble.
00:12:40.800 And I think she can't even see for herself or she can't even, you know, understand why
00:12:47.540 people are not liking her.
00:12:49.020 And it's for her that that's what this is all about.
00:12:51.600 This whole lawsuit is about like, oh, I'm, I am popular.
00:12:54.740 The fact that I am popular.
00:12:56.240 People do like me.
00:12:57.480 You all misunderstanding.
00:12:59.140 And I feel sad for her family.
00:13:01.260 I mean, for her mom as well.
00:13:03.580 Yeah.
00:13:04.080 By the way, since you know her mom, did you ever know about that story that she told
00:13:08.380 at the time?
00:13:09.600 100.
00:13:11.600 Did you hear that when she had a speech for her and she's talked about how her mom had
00:13:17.120 almost been killed by someone?
00:13:19.440 Yes, I do know that story.
00:13:21.560 That was from her first marriage.
00:13:24.820 Okay.
00:13:25.740 And was that, was that about a woman?
00:13:28.580 Someone said that was a woman that tried to kill her or something like that.
00:13:34.080 Blake's mom.
00:13:36.020 It was a co-worker.
00:13:37.300 She said it was a co-worker.
00:13:39.140 I believe Elaine told me it was the first husband, but if they were doing something
00:13:43.000 with the, with a, like there was a cheating thing, but I do know that her mother did escape
00:13:50.080 from that, you know, escape from that marriage, which is why she changed her name to Lively
00:13:54.460 and got married to uncle or grandpa, Ernie, whatever you want to call him.
00:13:59.860 That's why that happened because she was like escaping for her life.
00:14:02.940 That is true.
00:14:04.240 Wow.
00:14:04.860 But did, why did Ernie take her second, sir, last name that was from that husband?
00:14:11.320 I think it was a bonding thing that she just wanted to, you know, be alive again.
00:14:15.860 And so she chose that last name.
00:14:17.540 And so he took it as well.
00:14:18.940 And that's how they got the name Lively.
00:14:20.460 Yeah.
00:14:20.840 No, I'm curious about all these things.
00:14:23.100 That's okay.
00:14:23.740 I'll tell you what you want to know.
00:14:25.300 I love like true crime and murder mystery.
00:14:27.720 So girl, let's feel like.
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00:16:05.040 Now back to the amazing Felicia Cooper.
00:16:08.420 Yeah, I feel like I really, there's so much I need to know about this family and how,
00:16:13.360 I feel like, how did Blake Lively end up like this?
00:16:15.740 And how did she end up with Ryan Reynolds?
00:16:17.320 Was she with Ryan when you knew them?
00:16:20.500 No, she was, so when I met her, it was at the Cheesecake Factory, it was 2012.
00:16:26.240 So yeah, it was a Thursday night, I believe around November, if I'm not mistaken.
00:16:30.800 So yeah, as far as, she probably was laying, laying Leo DiCaprio at the time, whoever knows.
00:16:38.800 But no, she was not married to Ryan.
00:16:40.820 She did not even know Taylor Swift.
00:16:42.860 To this day, I wish I could have been like, Tay, do not be friends with her.
00:16:46.140 I'm telling you, I'm trusting you, girl, trust me.
00:16:48.580 As you know from the interview that I did with her, that I knew that she was like that back
00:16:53.440 then, but I feel like it was kind of covered up for so long.
00:16:56.460 Sure, Steve, when we saw that interview and the level of disrespect that she gave you,
00:17:04.840 and her and Parker, we were like, what the fuck is happening?
00:17:09.180 How dare you?
00:17:10.880 You are pregnant, she's not, she's giving you a compliment,
00:17:13.780 and you're just being a bitch for no reason.
00:17:15.800 Broke my heart for you.
00:17:18.520 Oh, thank you.
00:17:19.920 I mean, it was not a nice experience, but you know, of course I got over it and everything,
00:17:24.480 but I wanted to show that behavior as kind of like, hey, this is how this person behaved
00:17:32.740 in front of me, and I can only imagine, you know, how she behaves in front of people when
00:17:37.440 there's not a camera.
00:17:38.680 When you're like that, when you know you're being filmed, and this can be shown to the
00:17:43.780 world, what are you like then when you're not on camera, you know?
00:17:48.540 And like you were just saying, yeah.
00:17:51.420 I wonder that all the time, too.
00:17:53.580 I'm like, how are your children around this at home?
00:17:56.640 Because you have disrespected me.
00:17:58.240 She definitely, like, she definitely treated me like the help.
00:18:02.020 Of course she would.
00:18:04.220 So how do you treat your children?
00:18:08.520 And you know what's funny?
00:18:11.080 Ryan's ass, he's a complete trash bag.
00:18:16.740 He had me burn my Disney, which is against the pail to me.
00:18:19.820 Girl, my Disney is my life.
00:18:24.520 So to quote his fucking film, which he should know, is don't F with the people who handle
00:18:29.920 your food.
00:18:31.720 And she sure as hell did without a second thought.
00:18:35.220 So what do people say?
00:18:37.200 Do people in the industry, I mean, you're on sets all the time and stuff like that.
00:18:40.440 Do people talk about them now?
00:18:42.400 Do you guys talk about them?
00:18:44.240 You know, what are people's opinions about them?
00:18:48.180 Because I'm not in LA right now, so I don't speak to people.
00:18:50.520 But I hear things all the time that, oh my God, so many people dislike them and they're
00:18:54.820 saying these things about them.
00:18:55.880 Um, do you think, do you hear people talk about them and do you think maybe that more
00:19:01.660 people will come out and be honest about what they feel about this and what they feel about
00:19:05.940 them and what she's actually done?
00:19:08.060 I hope that they do.
00:19:09.960 Um, I'm usually the one talking about it, like, you know, around here.
00:19:12.720 Cause I'm like, this, this cannot stand.
00:19:15.960 You cannot be this kind of person and be on set and show up and act like, oh, everything's
00:19:20.740 all good afterwards.
00:19:21.560 When you're making false claims, it's very serious.
00:19:23.780 It's very protected.
00:19:24.500 So what's being done to Justin is completely ridiculous.
00:19:28.700 It is absurd and cruelty and completely fake lively, which is what I call her.
00:19:35.420 Yeah.
00:19:36.020 A lot of people call her that.
00:19:37.700 Yeah.
00:19:39.380 Well, thank you audience.
00:19:41.220 Yeah.
00:19:42.420 She has many names by now.
00:19:44.440 I feel like there's new names for her and Ryan popping up every day and I'm like, okay,
00:19:48.580 yeah, well, it's rhyming.
00:19:50.620 I call him cesspool now.
00:19:52.340 I want to, can I show this on camera?
00:19:55.760 Yeah.
00:19:56.480 Okay.
00:19:56.800 Hang on.
00:19:57.180 Let me grab it.
00:19:57.860 Yeah.
00:19:59.120 And I got a story about Deadpool, but I originally had this, you know, ordered like one night on
00:20:05.540 Amazon.
00:20:05.780 I'm going to have fun and stuff.
00:20:06.980 And I changed it to this.
00:20:09.960 Merry Christmas.
00:20:11.660 Baldonis.
00:20:13.360 Burn it.
00:20:13.960 Oh, it said burn it underneath.
00:20:17.520 Yep.
00:20:19.680 Now I get it.
00:20:23.280 Oh, oh yeah.
00:20:24.780 It's Christmas day.
00:20:26.460 Yeah.
00:20:27.500 Burn this shit.
00:20:28.360 You should, you should send it to him.
00:20:30.660 He's back in LA.
00:20:31.600 I think.
00:20:32.500 I don't have his address, but I absolutely want him to have it and burn it.
00:20:36.360 I've spent my cold, hard cash on this and he deserves better.
00:20:40.820 I love that.
00:20:42.400 I love that.
00:20:43.480 You were so sweet.
00:20:44.420 It's time to deliver.
00:20:45.280 No.
00:20:47.160 So you, she said to me, you have experienced some bad experience with other actors as well.
00:20:52.380 Can you talk about any of the experiences where you're like, oh no.
00:20:56.000 Cause I feel like I've met so many actresses or actors that I had high hopes before I met
00:21:01.520 them.
00:21:01.840 And then I was like, oh no, I thought you were nice.
00:21:05.280 Did you have anyone else?
00:21:07.320 Anyone else?
00:21:09.280 Elizabeth Banks.
00:21:10.540 She's a total see you next Tuesday.
00:21:12.900 Isaiah Washington actually hit me.
00:21:15.780 Who?
00:21:17.140 The son of Denzel?
00:21:18.720 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:21:20.600 That asshole from Grey's Anatomy.
00:21:23.260 Oh, he hit you?
00:21:26.260 But get this.
00:21:27.320 I hit him back.
00:21:28.240 He was more fucking impressed that I could swing.
00:21:30.740 Cause I'm, I, I've been trained to fight since I was a kid from my father.
00:21:33.880 And my father was a paraplegic who taught me everything.
00:21:37.480 Um, he was a, he was a U S veteran.
00:21:39.380 I could go on for days, but, um, yeah, there was one time we were filming in Atlanta and
00:21:43.760 I was on the phone cause my boyfriend, cause my mom was like, you know, getting on my nerves.
00:21:47.380 So I just took some quiet time downstairs to be like, can I talk about my mom and everything?
00:21:52.160 So he's at the bar smoking a cigar, having a drink.
00:21:55.400 Okay, whatever.
00:21:56.060 Do your thing.
00:21:56.540 We're off.
00:21:56.980 We're at the hotel.
00:21:57.700 It's fine.
00:21:59.420 I'm just like, you know, kicking it like this.
00:22:01.080 My mom is so getting on my nerves.
00:22:02.620 He goes upstairs.
00:22:03.740 I think to his, um, like in the elevator to his room, weirdly, a minute later, he comes
00:22:10.560 back down to, to the lobby area where I am.
00:22:14.360 He drags me by my foot.
00:22:16.480 I'm in like my sweats and my Nikes.
00:22:18.120 He drags me by my foot, smacks me on my leg and places me in a closet and tells me this
00:22:24.120 is not where a young lady is supposed to be at midnight.
00:22:26.180 I said, I broke out of there and I struck him in the chest.
00:22:32.320 And I said, don't you ever fucking put your hands on me one more goddamn time.
00:22:36.200 He was more, the look in his eyes.
00:22:38.580 Sure, Steve.
00:22:39.080 I kid you not.
00:22:39.900 He was more impressed that I could hit.
00:22:42.880 Then, then the fact that I wasn't like turned on by that.
00:22:45.740 Wow.
00:22:48.520 Did you report that?
00:22:50.540 Of course I reported to set.
00:22:52.000 Yeah.
00:22:52.420 And I said, I want to be removed from him at all.
00:22:54.740 They wanted to remove me from like, from like being around him or shooting scenes or whatever.
00:23:00.800 But I was like, I don't want to leave my best friend Kamal.
00:23:02.960 Cause we were scene partners and we were, we were like next door in the hotel.
00:23:05.400 So he was my best friend.
00:23:08.080 I showed him the next day.
00:23:09.480 Sure.
00:23:09.620 Steve, the next day I had my sweats on.
00:23:12.280 I still had a handprint on my, my, my thigh and my ass from where he struck me so hard.
00:23:18.480 Wow.
00:23:19.120 I showed Kamal.
00:23:20.120 I was like, he was like, what the fuck happened?
00:23:22.220 I was like, Isaiah hit me for no reason.
00:23:24.700 Oh my gosh.
00:23:27.920 That's serious.
00:23:29.120 I should have got that damn tape.
00:23:32.420 Yes.
00:23:33.100 My gosh.
00:23:33.920 That's really serious.
00:23:35.360 Yeah.
00:23:35.620 I'd rather.
00:23:36.020 That is like, and he's still working out there, right?
00:23:40.860 I can.
00:23:41.580 He's, I cannot believe that who the hell is hiring him.
00:23:45.700 I will never work with him again to this day.
00:23:48.220 I have it in my heart.
00:23:49.360 If there's like, Oh, this is a film with Isaiah Washington decline.
00:23:52.740 I don't care what it pays.
00:23:53.620 I don't care what it pays.
00:23:54.700 I'm so sorry to hear about that.
00:23:56.180 That is a horrible story.
00:23:57.800 That is like, you know, when you hear about Blake Lively's claims and you hear about something
00:24:01.620 like that, I mean, it just makes it even more ridiculous.
00:24:07.000 Right.
00:24:07.940 There's no, there's no way on God's green earth.
00:24:11.660 Justin did anything like that.
00:24:13.820 We all saw the role.
00:24:15.280 We all saw the tape.
00:24:18.420 Yeah.
00:24:18.900 And the fact that there is no other women, I'm sure that Isaiah, Isaiah, is that his name?
00:24:23.500 Isaiah?
00:24:23.780 How do I say his name?
00:24:25.260 Isaiah.
00:24:26.560 Isaiah.
00:24:27.640 I'm sure that Isaiah has done similar things to other women.
00:24:31.380 Because if you can be violent with a woman like that, I'm sure he's done that to others.
00:24:36.180 There was already claims from, that's why he got fired from Grey's Anatomy.
00:24:39.380 Because he did that same shit there.
00:24:41.040 He is forking crazy.
00:24:44.060 Wow.
00:24:44.820 And what about Elizabeth Banks?
00:24:46.600 I just watched that show she's in.
00:24:48.900 I will not watch that show.
00:24:50.480 I wish I knew this before I watched the show because I was talking to you already.
00:24:53.900 You mentioned it to me and I was like, I was halfway through that show and I was like,
00:24:58.460 I never met her.
00:24:59.900 So I didn't know much about her.
00:25:01.280 And I was like, oh no, now I know who she is.
00:25:04.700 And it's going to change the way I look at this show as well.
00:25:06.860 So yeah, did you work with her?
00:25:09.600 No.
00:25:10.100 So I had just quit the Cheesecake Factory to follow my dreams.
00:25:13.660 And I kept crying to clock in and stuff.
00:25:17.980 And I was like, this isn't where I'm supposed to be.
00:25:19.800 So I just got out.
00:25:20.820 I just quit on a Sunday.
00:25:22.240 I was like, I'm out of here.
00:25:23.580 Goodwill hunting.
00:25:24.420 Deuces.
00:25:25.900 And so my best friend at the time, Jesse, was doing bar backing.
00:25:30.180 So there was a hotel, not a hotel.
00:25:32.340 There was a Beverly Hills party where he was bartender and needed a bar back.
00:25:36.380 He was like, hey, Fee, I just wanted to let you know that I got this gig.
00:25:39.760 It pays $150.
00:25:41.160 I know you just quit your job.
00:25:42.760 Would you mind being my assistant?
00:25:44.200 I was like, oh yeah, sure.
00:25:44.900 No problem.
00:25:45.360 I'll get you.
00:25:45.960 No worries.
00:25:46.640 So we're there as a team, right?
00:25:49.520 My job is to just serve drinks, pass champagne, just be nice, be a hostess, prepare drinks,
00:25:54.620 make sure the party keeps going.
00:25:56.140 She comes in.
00:25:56.820 I had just seen the Hunger Games catching fire, which I love.
00:26:01.180 And I was like, oh, hi, can I offer you some champagne?
00:26:04.300 She looks at me like this.
00:26:05.380 She goes, no.
00:26:10.160 And then just walks away.
00:26:12.920 And then, and then, so I just keep doing my job.
00:26:16.140 Later throughout the night, me and this girl, Rachel, who I met, she was part of the catering
00:26:20.480 staff.
00:26:21.700 And I see Elizabeth taking like, you know, pictures around like the Christmas tree.
00:26:25.700 And I'm like, oh, would you like some help with that?
00:26:27.460 You know, trying to get the good angle.
00:26:28.960 I kid you not.
00:26:29.880 Let me repeat it.
00:26:30.480 She goes, no, it's called a selfie for a reason.
00:26:34.380 And I turned, and I, I turned to Rachel and I go, I'm like, Trey and I'm like, Rachel,
00:26:43.160 is it me?
00:26:43.540 Or is that rude as fuck?
00:26:44.420 She goes, no, that was rude as fuck.
00:26:46.020 I was like, okay, thank you.
00:26:47.880 And then she was just like, I feel like, you know, when you're telling stories from a perspective,
00:26:54.680 when you were working as a waitress, or you were serving like you were at that party.
00:26:59.540 I feel like that's exactly when you see people's true colors on who they really are.
00:27:05.240 Because I'm sure she's nice to people on sets and people like she feel is not beneath her.
00:27:12.520 And that's the whole thing with these people that are so rude to others is like, they feel
00:27:16.700 they're entitled to be rude to people that they see as beneath them because they like,
00:27:21.080 oh, she's serving me.
00:27:22.420 She, I don't have to be like nice to her.
00:27:24.800 And you were even approaching her to be especially nice.
00:27:27.640 That's awful.
00:27:28.920 I just, I'm like, I'm like, what, where in your heart do you find that?
00:27:33.360 And then people kept trying to tell me like, oh, she's jealous.
00:27:35.380 She's jealous.
00:27:35.880 No, I'm not.
00:27:36.620 No, it's not jealous.
00:27:37.600 It's mean.
00:27:38.960 Yeah.
00:27:39.720 No.
00:27:40.240 There's nothing to be jealous of.
00:27:41.780 You were in catching fire.
00:27:42.860 I'm serving drinks.
00:27:45.500 Well, you are much prettier than her.
00:27:48.500 Maybe it was that.
00:27:50.560 And younger and all those things.
00:27:52.900 But I feel like what you're saying, you know, these people are just narcissists in general.
00:27:57.220 And they just like, can't be nice to people that they feel are beneath them because like,
00:28:02.140 they've been just surrounding themselves with all these like, yes, people all the time
00:28:05.920 that never said no to them.
00:28:07.460 And they feel like they're just like goddesses.
00:28:10.040 And I have thoughts on that too, because don't get me wrong.
00:28:15.180 I love the red carpet.
00:28:16.500 I moved out here for the red carpet and the pretty dresses and all that kind of stuff.
00:28:19.520 But at the end of the day, I just want to come home and be with my cat and, you know,
00:28:24.200 take my pants off and wear sweats.
00:28:25.520 Because we all do.
00:28:28.640 Right?
00:28:29.020 I don't care to be in the street at all.
00:28:30.680 I don't care to have another camera in my freaking face being like, poof, what can you do?
00:28:34.300 Poof, what can you do?
00:28:35.060 Poof, what can you do?
00:28:36.260 I feel the industry really need more people like you.
00:28:39.980 You're just like speaking right from your heart.
00:28:42.940 You're just being completely honest.
00:28:45.300 I've interviewed so many actresses.
00:28:47.260 No one's honest.
00:28:48.200 No one is telling it like it is, like you're doing.
00:28:51.460 And I just really applaud you for it.
00:28:53.120 Because it's amazing.
00:28:55.320 I'm a girl from Florida, North Carolina.
00:28:57.200 I keep it real.
00:28:57.880 I don't keep a Hollywood.
00:28:59.540 Yeah, it's so empowering.
00:29:01.520 And it just gives me hope that there could be really cool actresses coming out.
00:29:05.800 You know, really?
00:29:07.000 I hope so.
00:29:07.400 Yes.
00:29:08.100 Oh, and also, I have a beautiful story about Zendaya.
00:29:11.900 Oh, tell the beautiful story.
00:29:13.420 Let's end this with a beautiful story.
00:29:15.740 So there's one night she comes in with her family.
00:29:18.400 And my co-workers are too big of a chickens to go talk to her.
00:29:22.360 So they're like, Felicia, you go.
00:29:23.440 You go.
00:29:23.740 You're the answer.
00:29:24.160 You go talk to her.
00:29:25.180 So I'm like, okay, hi.
00:29:26.360 I'm so sorry to interrupt y'all.
00:29:28.140 My name is Felicia.
00:29:29.300 My co-workers want to meet you.
00:29:30.400 She stands up and she looks tall like me.
00:29:33.200 And she's like, oh, hi.
00:29:34.120 It's so nice to meet you.
00:29:35.080 And I met her whole family and everything.
00:29:36.460 And I was like, guys, get up here.
00:29:38.220 Get up here.
00:29:38.660 She's sweet.
00:29:39.480 And so she said hello to everyone and just sat down and ate their food.
00:29:43.820 And then they were like, oh, my God, we just met Zendaya.
00:29:45.880 And they just all went back down to eating and had a wonderful family time.
00:29:49.280 It was very sweet.
00:29:51.240 Oh, that's nice.
00:29:52.140 It's good to hear there are people like that.
00:29:53.600 I met Tom Holland a few times and interviewed him, too.
00:29:56.000 And he's such a nice guy.
00:29:57.980 So I think that, yeah, that's good to hear that she's nice.
00:30:01.220 There are nice people out there still.
00:30:03.200 That gives us all so much hope.
00:30:04.940 What I want people to take away from me is that just because I have this job doesn't mean I'm Hollywood.
00:30:12.500 Because I can record from my phone.
00:30:15.040 I have no problem just leaving Hollywood behind and be like, wow.
00:30:18.100 Thank you so much for being on Flossom Talk.
00:30:20.640 I'm so honored that you love my show and that you watch it and that you're on here and that you're being honest about things.
00:30:28.820 It's amazing.
00:30:30.120 And you're so cute.
00:30:31.700 I just want to hug you over and over again because you're so cute.
00:30:36.180 Can you give me like two more minutes to gush over you?
00:30:39.220 I absolutely love your show.
00:30:40.920 Your hair is amazing every day.
00:30:43.260 And you're so sweet, so thoughtful, so kind.
00:30:46.560 And your talks with Nelson, I live for.
00:30:49.940 They are so good.
00:30:51.060 I got to get his books.
00:30:53.380 Oh, yes, you do.
00:30:54.420 I'll tell him that.
00:30:55.140 I'll tell him to send you some of his books.
00:30:57.400 Yes.
00:30:58.000 I'll bring him on again.
00:30:59.320 And I have to have on you again as well because I think everyone's going to love you here as well.
00:31:03.720 So, yes, your positive energy and, oh, your cute smile.
00:31:09.000 Yes.
00:31:09.620 Felicia Cooper.
00:31:11.020 Yeah.
00:31:11.780 Thank you so much.
00:31:13.620 And everyone, where can everyone find you?
00:31:15.740 If you want people to follow you on social media, where can they find you?
00:31:19.520 At Felicia Cooper.
00:31:20.920 F-E-L-I-S-H-A-C-O-O-P-E-R.
00:31:25.480 And where can they watch your shows and everything?
00:31:29.280 Are you still on Swedish Dicks?
00:31:31.040 No, Swedish Dicks, we're over.
00:31:34.180 But you can check us out on Amazon.
00:31:36.240 I believe Amazon still has it.
00:31:38.100 Don't watch anything of a simple favor.
00:31:41.320 Another simple favor.
00:31:42.780 Yeah, no.
00:31:44.920 Just watch Swedish Dicks.
00:31:46.660 Yeah.
00:31:47.460 Yeah.
00:31:48.980 There's Lifetime movies, The Bold and the Beautiful on CBS.
00:31:52.080 I'm on there.
00:31:52.540 My first series regular.
00:31:54.140 Oh, that's a story, girl, for another day.
00:31:57.060 Yes.
00:31:57.540 Oh, and also I do, I'm working right now on, how do I describe them?
00:32:06.160 They're fantasy soap operas for your cell phone.
00:32:08.360 So they're like based out of China and they're like real shorts.
00:32:11.840 Oh, cool.
00:32:15.380 Yeah.
00:32:15.840 Real shorts.
00:32:16.820 Yeah, there's fantasy soap opera drama.
00:32:19.560 Yeah, they're fantasy soap opera dramas.
00:32:21.280 There's like billionaires and werewolves and vampires and just like a lot of, it's very glamorous on like a very small scale, but it's fun.
00:32:29.800 Thank you, Felicia, for sharing all of this with us.
00:32:32.520 I really appreciate her honesty so much.
00:32:35.140 She's amazing.
00:32:35.900 She's so sweet.
00:32:36.880 I really wish there would be more people like her in Hollywood that are brave enough to actually speak the truth.
00:32:43.900 Please show her some love over at her Instagram.
00:32:46.760 I'll leave a link in my description so you can go and follow her there.
00:32:50.180 And if you haven't subscribed to my YouTube channel, please do and hit the notification bell so you don't miss an episode of Flawsome Talk, my YouTube show or my podcast every Friday that you also can listen to on Amazon, iHeart, Spotify and Apple.
00:33:07.040 And yeah, I'll see you next time.
00:33:09.020 Bye.