Speaker 1: Listen. I didn't know.
Speaker 2: Maybe you didn't either, but it is some money being
Speaker 2: made in makeup. Jack makeup made Rihanna a billionaire. Makeup
Speaker 2: has made a plethora of affair maidens memorable. And today
Speaker 2: I'd like to introduce you to the first black woman
Speaker 2: to do makeup on a Hollywood set, Miss Bernardine Anderson.
Speaker 1: I didn't know you, no, I didn't know.
Speaker 2: I didn't know.
Speaker 1: I didn't know. Maybe I didn't know. I didn't know.
Speaker 1: I didn't know.
Speaker 2: Now, no surprise here, but there was a time in
Speaker 2: these here United States when black folks couldn't do makeup
Speaker 2: on white folks movie sets. And Bernardine Anderson she found
Speaker 2: difficulty breaking into the business in the late sixties, but
Speaker 2: she was adamant about pursuing her passion. She found a
Speaker 2: class action lawsuit and was awarded a three year apprenticeship
Speaker 2: with Warner Brothers. It was history because it would be
Speaker 2: the final one they would ever offer.
Speaker 1: After she finished her apprentice, she.
Speaker 2: Started her career doing makeup on stunt doubles and stunt
Speaker 2: triples and even stunt quadruples. I ain't even know that
Speaker 2: was a thing. In the early seventies, she met the
Speaker 2: connect that would change her life forever. Jane Fonda see
Speaker 2: Jane Fonder requested Bernadine Anderson once and they were locked
Speaker 2: in for eight years. At the end of that tenure,
Speaker 2: when Jane Fonder said she wanted to chill for a
Speaker 2: little bit, she would began her work.
Speaker 1: With Eddie Murphy and dig it.
Speaker 2: She with the head makeup artists in some of our
Speaker 2: favorite movies coming to America Boomerange, Vampire in Brooklyn, What.
Speaker 1: Loud got to do with it? Another forty eight.
Speaker 2: Hours, hallm Nights, Police Academy six, and she did TV
Speaker 2: shows Head of the Class and we all remember, Amen,
Speaker 2: I never knew the words to the intro of that song.
Speaker 1: Turn off the Lights on Heaven, No shine on.
Speaker 2: Me, That's all I would say. I don't think that's accurate, though, Man,
Speaker 2: Bernadine Anderson was exceptional. She had to be, I mean,
Speaker 2: navigating through race and gender challenges at the time in
Speaker 2: the film industry while she was working on white actors
Speaker 2: and actresses. The skincare and makeup challenges she faced when
Speaker 2: she had to apply makeup to darker skins. Come on, man,
Speaker 2: how she had to create alternative solutions. Bam, right there
Speaker 2: on the flo she had to be exceptional, and that's
Speaker 2: what made Rihanna Fincibrand so popular.
Speaker 1: It got fifty different foundation shades.
Speaker 2: Everybody feels seen, so while Rihanna is counting them cosmetic
Speaker 2: coins a special things and salute simultaneously goes to the
Speaker 2: trail blaze of Bernardine Anderson, who broke barriers by beating
Speaker 2: faces sixty years ago.
Speaker 1: And I didn't know. Maybe you didn't either. No,