Jerrie Johnson joins us on the show today. You Might Know Her From our latest obsession, the new Amazon Prime series Harlem. Jerrie gave us the scoop on Tracy Oliver’s Harlem from the audition process to the politics of the series to working with an intimacy coordinator for her sex scenes to those character reveals at the end of season one. We also talked about Jerrie’s top five lesbians, her love of for colored girls…, what her Auntie had to say about her sex scenes. Stream Harlem stat! 

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Intimacy coordinator

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Jerrie auditioned for the upcoming revival of Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is ennuf

Top 5 lesbians: Jonica T.Gibbs (Twenties), Miriam Hyman (The Chi), Lena Waithe, Jerrie Johnson herself, Samira Wiley (OITNB, Handmaids Tale)

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Chubby Checker @ Mohegan Sun

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So many theatre stars on Harlem: Jasmine Guy, Andrea Martin, Whoopi Goldberg, Kate Rockwell, Sherie Renee Scott

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Jean Smart in The Brady Bunch Movie

Shelley Long: give her another take 

Anne is on the SIBO diet :(