Nivea, Tammy Rivera And Eva Marcille Talk 'Eat Slay Love'

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So… about that spoiler alert. The Eat Slay Love journey to Vietnam begins with four women, the fourth being comedian London Hughes, who was not present for the BOSSIP interview.

“She’s in LA,” Eva Marcille explained when we mentioned the elephant in the room. “We luckily all live in Atlanta. Tammy and I live around the corner from each other – Nivea’s up the street. She’s in L.A. so most likely that’s why she wasn’t here.”

While the Eva, Nivea and Tammy assured us that there is no love lost for London, they did speak to the issues the group had beginning in the first episode, where London, who is British, had several heated conversations with both Eva and Tammy, mostly about poverty in the U.S. vs. Britain.

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“You can’t make all your friends be friends with each other,” Nivea told BOSSIP. “Some stuff just don’t mesh. What we were trying to accomplish and I think we did, was to introduce conversations of different cultural differences and backgrounds and POVs. Represent different types of Black women around the world and seeing how we can still provide some sort of a sisterhood or learn from each other. It’s like, you know what — I don’t mess with you but I can take this with me and I learned this out of that situation. And I really think the London’s part in that was that for her and for us as well.”

“Especially for me, what I took away from that situation was, I really did learn from it a lot,” Tammy added. “Honestly, I sat back and I had to reevaluate everything and myself and the situation, to see where she was coming from. Even if she didn’t understand where I was coming from, I still wanted to try to understand. For me I’m like, ‘OK you’re able to coexist with people even if you don’t agree with them or understand them and they don’t understand you.’

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“You can disagree without disrespecting,” Eva added. “The hyperconnectivity of of social media makes everything very convoluted. It makes you feel as if sometimes you know people or you know realities because you saw it online. It’s like you’ve been watching her Instagram so it’s like, ‘Girl I was with you when you were traveling!’ I feel like this trip helps us to understand that there is a cultural difference as an American Black woman. It is a thing. If you’re not a Black American woman you don’t understand it. For me I think we showed the world in this. London was a great addition because she’s not American. I have some girls from the UK — Estelle is my girl. I got some Black London girls. You know. Cynthia Erivo. But there is a difference in the way in which they were raised. For this, preconceived notions, stereotypes, ideas, TV shows as you will see.”

In the interest of not further spoiling, we won’t get specific, but several popular SCRIPTED television series were cited in some of the offending conversations, so Eva’s comments about the way people learn about culture are spot on. Putting those cultural differences to the side, Eat Slay Love does not dwell on the drama. As the cameras continued to roll, the laughter and appreciation for Vietnamese food, landscapes and people, as well as the women’s personal growth, became the main focus, resulting in quite a beautiful unscripted series.

All three episodes of Eat Slay Love are currently streaming on Peacock.