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Here's the deal, everybody, Rosie Perez
is my very first celebrity guest on Talk Stoop.
Your accent, when you're out and speaking, is really toned down.
To hear this woman at a dinner party.
Oh, behind closed doors?
Oh my god.
We had a little supper club going, after we first met,
with some other friends.
And you were here telling some story and you had us screaming.
You were doing your cousin.
You just gave my secret away.
People think like, oh, you've grown out of your accent.
I said, yes, I have.
No.
She has not.
In fact, it's so good.
You just add one glass of wine and it really, like, flows.
- That's true. - I love it.
Thank you.
So if your cousin was here and I were to ask her,
you know, how you been the last six years?
How might she answer?
(THICK ACCENT) Good.
Did you get married?
(THICK ACCENT) Yeah.
How'd it go?
(THICK ACCENT) Good.
What'd you wear?
Something nice.
Who married you?
Who married you?
A priest, my god.
No, I meant, who?
What man would marry you?
Oh!
[laughing]
A man that looks like this?
[laughing]
Well, he's dressed for a wedding.
Yeah, that's how dogs react to my real accent.
[growling]
You know what's interesting about you?
Besides so many things?
Last time you were here, you wore a hat.
This time you're wearing a hat, different hat.
What are you covering up?
No, you know what?
It's that when I was younger, I always wore hats.
And one day, my father and I, God rest his soul,
were going through the family album,
and I saw, photo after photo, he was always wearing a hat.
And I'd never seen him wear a hat before.
And I said, I said, poppy, you wear hats?
He goes, just like you.
So it's just a thing.
It just comes, yeah, it just comes naturally to me.
Why have I never heard you mention your dad before?
Because at the time that we met, he was very, very ill.
And it would always just bring me to tears.
You are a crier.
I am a crier.
You know what else let's talk about that's
also super depressing?
AIDS.
AIDS is depressing, but it's also
very hopeful to speak about.
The company that I'm supporting right now
is Bridging Access to Care.
They have done so much for this borough
and they're not recognized in the way that they should be.
There's a lot of people who are living with *** and AIDS
that do not have proper housing.
And once they do get housing, they don't
have anything to sleep on.
And so Raymour & Flanigan is partnering with Bridging Access
to Care and providing furniture for people who are homeless
and now get housing through this organization.
Because there's a homeless epidemic in the AIDS community
that people do not like to speak about.
They need a lot of help and they're
lucky to have you, by the way.
There's a gift in giving.
There really is.
And it and it makes you feel so much better as a person.
You are getting the Humanitarian Award
from Bridging Access to Care.
That's amazing.
You feel weird accepting an award like that, but you--
Right, what do you say? Here, let's practice here.
Ready?
And here is your Humanitarian Award, Rosie.
I would say, in my acceptance speech,
that AIDS is a serious issue.
And the fight is not over.
And we still got to keep the fight
going until there's a cure.
And in the meantime, we've got to take care of those people
that are living with *** and AIDS
because they're just human beings, just like us.
And if you don't take care of them, she will come get you.
That's right.
I will hunt you down.
She will get you.
She will cut you, OK?
*** on a stoop, yo.
*** on a stoop.
It's your new show.
Right?
I mean, what taken us so long?