Tyler Perry's Sistas star, Novi Brown sits down with ESSENCE.
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00:00I'm very, very, very grateful to Essence for the SC Award first ever, okay?
00:06Sisters is a cast that does a lot of firsts, actually.
00:09You know, we were the first to go back during the pandemic, the first TV show.
00:12A lot of people don't even know that.
00:14A lot of those production guidelines were based on what we were doing.
00:18So it's in alignment with what Black women are, which are trailblazers and leaders,
00:25and they show up for their community.
00:27So I'm very, very honored.
00:28I'm grateful I grew up on this magazine.
00:31So, of course, it's a big deal to me.
00:33It's a big deal to my family.
00:35And to be in a room with all of the women, past, present, and future,
00:39because there's some people in the room that we might not know their name yet,
00:42but they're working their way up towards that.
00:44And I feel like I'm one of those people.
00:45You know what I'm saying?
00:46Like, I know a lot of the women in the room seeing Kyla Pratt, which is my childhood, right?
00:54All the way up to Loretta Devine, which is my past.
00:57And then I feel like, you know, I'm part of the future.
01:02And then you have Ryan Destiny there, who's part of the future.
01:04And so it was just really motivating and inspiring.
01:07I loved it.
01:08I'm so grateful for the fans, y'all.
01:11We would be nothing without the fans.
01:13They are our family, to be quite honest.
01:16And to be given an award that is selected by the public, it is a little bit more special to my heart, you know,
01:23because that means that the people are invested in your story, whether they're invested in us as a group, an ensemble,
01:28or they're invested in us as individuals.
01:30It's also a reflection of the hard work of the crew as well.
01:34It's a reflection of the hard work at BET and all the people that are involved.
01:38So that award is not just for the cast.
01:40It's for every single person involved.
01:42Because without the fans who have us trending every week, okay, still, since 2019, trending every week on Twitter, top 10, is crazy.
01:51It just shows that if you stay focused, you stay disciplined and prayed up, God is going to bless you.