>> Keep it going.
>> There it is.
Right there.
Little throwback to 1991.
>> Got the moves.
>> When Tyra banks was in "Black
or white" music video.
Back to "Access live."
>> Tell us about that video.
What do you remember the most
about that?
>> So, I remember all of us in a
room.
I was 17 years old.
I hadn't had a big push as model
in Europe yet.
I was a local high school school
doing models.
I was cast for this.
Here are the dance moves.
This is what you have to do.
I'm in there for ten minutes.
I'm like, I got soul.
I got this.
I walk out very cocky like I got
then I get on set and I think
the director was John Landis,
legendary director.
They turn up the music and I
forget the moves.
I just go -- and then they kept
it.
So I got --
>> Nailed it.
>> For my bad behavior.
>> Nailed it.
>> So cute.
>> Did you ever meet Michael
then that time?
>> Huh?
>> Did you meet Michael?
>> I went back to school that
next day, I was like he was so
amazing and hung out an we're
best friends.
He wasn't there.
I said he was there.
>> Did you ever meet him after
>> Yes!
Later I met him.
I went to a concert of his in
New York City.
At Madison square garden.
>> Wow.
>> After I got to meet him in
his dressing room.
He was really sweet.
It was funny because Michael
Jackson, you know that voice and
the interview.
Talks like that.
So his nephew was in the room
throwing a bouncy ball with
jacks, off the mirrors and on
the ceiling and everywhere.
Michael Jackson was like, you
better stop throwing that ball.
You better sit your butt down!
I was like --
>> Michael.
>> Uncle Mike.
>> Like a deep voice.
>> You better sit your butt
>> Sit your butt down.
>> Gary, Indiana, came out.
>> Tyra, what were you saying?
>> Tyra, for you, talking about
the '90s.
When did you know you had made
it?
>> I knew I'd made it when I had
my first $5,000 check.
My mom and I went to California
pizza kitchen and bought every
pizza and pasta, I'm like
$5,000.
At the time that's when I
thought I had made it.
And then the big making it I
think was being on the cover of
"Sports illustrated" swimsuit
edition and the first black mod
toll do that.
>> Let's talk about that.
You changed the face of the
modeling industry in the '90s.
>> Literally.
>> You were the star.
You were everywhere.
What was life like for Tyra
banks in the '90s?
>> It was pretty surreal.
When I look back, gosh, that was
really major but living it I
didn't understand just how big
everything was.
I kind of think about like
social media.
Social media back then, I think
I probably would have been the
most -- based on that moment.
So I only am able to reflect
back opposed to -- you know what
I mean?
Think about it.
>> And then acting, Tyra, fresh
prince of Bel Air.
Was that your first acting
moment?
What did it feel like being on
set?
Look at you.
>> Yes!
That was my very first acting
job.
I hadn't done any acting before
that and I auditioned for that
and they said they were looking
for someone to play Will Smith's
girlfriend on the show and she
was a basketball player.
I'm like, okay.
I'll dress like a basketball
player.
I dressed in big sweats,
sweatshirt, a hoodie an I walk
into the audition and they're
all women with little black
dresses and high heels.
And I'm like, oh my god.
I made the biggest mistake.
What am I doing here?
I felt so out of place.
I audition and then the casting
director goes, can you come back
in a couple of hours?
I'm like, okay.
I come back.
Same clothes.
I guess it worked.
In the room is Will Smith.
And they had me read with will
Smith.
And as I turn around and I'm
walking out, will's like, you
got it.
I was like -- oh my god.
>> See?
We were rooting for you.
We were all rooting for you!
That's awesome.
I think that's one of the things
you always talk about mentors, a
part of the shows.
Staying true to what you know
and believe because it will
carry you through when the other
stuff doesn't.
>> Exactly.
And, you know, that was a big
lesson for me.
Diff
different.
I looked like a basketball
player.
She's from philly, from the hood
of philly.
I represented that.
And it worked.
So yes.
Following your gut.
Being authentic.
Not being afraid to stand out
because I almost went home to
get into a black dress for will.
I was like, no.
They liked this so let me just
stay here.
>> Perfect.
>> What about agt?
We have hung out backstage at
agt.
It is coming back this summer.
Champions with Terry Cruz and
see you come back this summer or
what?
>> I don't know.
I think I had a really nice run.
>> Okay.
>> With agt.
I'm focusing on "Life size" and
focusing on a lot of -- I'm
producing TV and I have a
massive project starting next
year.
I'm not so sure.
>> Okay.
>> But if I don't come back, I
had a lot of fun.
>> A massive project?
Can you give us a hint?
>> It is so massive.
It is really making me look at
everything I'm doing and saying,
what can I peel off and not do
and what can I truly focus on.
I have a -- coming out in the
fall of next year.
I want you guys there.
At the opening.
Never been done before.
>> Tyra.
>> Lean in a little bit.
>> Just between us.
>> Just us.
>> Just us girls.
>> And Scott.
>> Slide in to my dm.
>> I got you, boo!
>> Just like MC hammer.
>> Tyra, we love you.
Have the best holiday with your
son and your family.
>> Thank you.
>> Indeed.
"Life size 2" premiers Sunday at
9:00 on frequent form.
>> And Tyra raps in it.
>> Yes, yes.
>> Good.
>> Stank face.
