death clause in your contracts that queen latifah cannot die in a film? no dying allowed anymore. larry: is that true? it is. it was kind of a joke. but excuse me. i think i just died too well on camera. larry: supposing someone gives you a great script, phenomenal. oscar stuff. and you were nominated for an oscar. then i might larry: that you ve got to die. i might larry: there s a death scene. runs about eight minutes, just you in front of the camera. wow, eight minutes? where s the camera. come closer. come, closer. larry: do you ever turn down a role or regret it? no. no. i ve never turned down a role and regretted it.
friends who i ve known since high school. so i have real people around me. who can pat me on my back when i m doing good and smack my hand when i m doing something naughty, and it just keeps me more grounded. queen latifah has become a phenomenon in a sense, but underneath the queen is just la. i think that s what people really get from me, and they feel like when people approach me on the street, they just feel like they can hug me, you know? like they feel like they know me. and they say that to me. it s because i m still me. underneath all that huge queen latifah business it s just la. larry: do you ever miss not being known on the street, not being famous? i remember losing my anonymity, especially growing up in new york, but new jersey. but i hung out in new york a lot. you could go to new york and just be anyone you wanted to be. you could disappear into 8 million people. and you could change your name
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latifah, all these different monikers that you could put on. but i thought queen. my mom raised me to be a queen. queen. queen latifah. i asked all my boys and they thought it was cool. i went with it, larry. larry: good move. we ll be back with the queen with the queen. larry: the book is put on your crown right after this. granola nut clusters from nature valley. 100% natural nuts and granola in bite sized clusters. it s a little bit of nature. a little bit better. and nature approves. granola nut clusters from nature valley.
i m pretty good at coming up with things like that, larry. larry: one day sitting around and you said, i think my name is going to be queen? this might sound crazy, but i was 8 years old. and my cousin, shiranda, brought this muslim book of names over. and each name had a meaning to it. so when i read the name latifah, it said, delicate, sensitive, kind, nice. and i was 8 years old. but i was big for my age. i was usually like the biggest girl in class. but i was a teddy bear on the inside. i was all those things, delicate, sensitive, kind, nice. and i thought to myself, that should be my name. i know. but this is where my brain went. so latifah became my nickname when i was 8. and when i started rapping and it became time for me to decide what my professionally known name would be, my lawyer asked me what do you want to be professionally known as? i kicked a bunch of things around. i didn t want to be emcee