Undercover Lyft with Taraji P. Henson - YouTube

- Hello, how are you?

- I'm good, how are you?

- Good. - Whoop.

- Wait a minute! (laughs)

Wait a minute.

Oh (bleep), oh, my God.

- (laughs)

- Oh, my God. - Gig is up!

(upbeat music)

Hi, I'm Taraji P. Henson.

We are in sunny Los Angeles, California.

And we're about to do an under cover Lyft,

you think they'll recognize me?

- Hello. - How are you?

- Have a seat, make sure you put ya seat belt on,

they're serious about that out here.

What's your name?

- Demetri. - Demetri.

I'm Eileen, yes how are you?

- Good. - Good!

Yeah what do you do?

- Acting believe it or not, doing a music video

but there's no lines for that.

- Ah you gotta twerk. - I can but I--

- Can you make your booty clap?

- I mean I can't really make it clap like that,

not like a professional.

- Cardi B makin' every body wanna twerk,

- Oh right.

- You know that almost came between me and my boyfriend.

Look in there I did bring some cookies,

in the glove compartment for you, I'm a baker.

- Oh my god! - (laughing)

- I'm out here tryna build my empire.

- (laughing) Build your empire.

- I'm trying, gotta keep hustling then flowing y'know.

So what do you do?

- I'm a psychic (laughing)

- (gasps) Oh god, I need help, I need help bad.

What do you think about psychics in movies?

- People assume that because I'm Psychic

that I can read your mind, and that's not true,

I'm not a mentalist.

- Well I can totally read minds,

- Well that's cool.

- I know you're a singer that's for sure.

- How d'you know?

- I told you I read minds, I pick up on things.

I'm not who you think I am, I mean that.

Like most psychics, they use tarot cards, I use Uno cards.

- (laughing) - No you laugh--

- I just played Uno though, girl, last night.

- I know you have a snake.

- Shut up.

- I'm pretty good. - You are good.

- I know you traveled a lot lately, you went to Cancun.

- Okay.

- Maybe you came out here to be a musician.

- I work with musicians.

- I felt music, I felt it, I felt it.

- You have two cats. - I sure do.

- I can actually smell a little bit of cat.

- Okay (laughing)

- That was kinda of a no brainer, I said I smell a cat

(laughing)

I do a lot of, I'm a rat activist.

That's what I do in between pickups, I rescue rats.

You know it's hard out there for a rat.

- Are there any rats in the car?

- They're in the trunk.

I'm waiting for this lab to clear out,

so I can go in there and rescue me a couple rats.

I'm having issues with my boyfriend.

- Okay what's up?

- I like to look through his phone, y'know.

- Ooh

- You haven't nothing to hide, show me right?

Y'know what does he want?

Y' know, what do men want?

Tell me that, you got an answer, what do men really want?

- That is a great question, and I don't know.

- I wanna see this one movie

that's getting ready to come out, What Men Want.

'Cause I'm really, dammit I wanna know.

Damn it I wanna know.

You gon' see that new movie with that funny guy,

Tracy Morgan, boy he is funny man, he is funny.

- Do I know any of the actors in the movie?

- I don't know, I don't know none of them,

I just saw the title and I said I wanna see that.

Do I look like somebody?

- Yes you do. - I always get that.

Everybody's like "You look like that actor, Cookie."

- Cookie? - I like cookies.

I make cookies. - There we go.

- They say I look like her, but I wish I had her pay check.

Thank you so much, my name is Taraji.

- Taraji. Pleasure to meet you.

- I'm Taraji p . Henson.

- Shut the front door! - (laughing)

- I am messin' with you, I'm Taraji Henson.

(laughing)

there was no fooling you.

I needed to wear prosthetics.

I'm gonna treat you to my movie, What Men Want.

(swearing and laughing)

(laughing)

You wanna come to the premier tomorrow?

- Whoa, Shut up! - Seriously come on.

- Shut up.

- I'll get you your tickets right now.

She's a real fan, no fooling her.

- You can hang out with me tomorrow at the premier.

(laughing)

- I just got what I thought was a Lyft ride,

and then, and then awesomeness happened.

- Dang, I'm a good actor, he couldn't figure out.

Did you have any inkling at all?

- Not at all. (laughing)

- Is she tryna throw me off?

I'm like, no you're Taraji, you are.

I still can't believe it, oh my god.

Look at her, she's like right there.

- Oh my god she gon' make me cry.

(laughing)

- It's amazing like am I really going to this premier?

Is this a joke or is this for real?

Okay (laughing)