For sistersJackye ClaytonandLauren McKinney, they manifested this opportunity of a lifetime.
It’s just still wow.
It’s still real surreal for us.
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We keep absorbing it in pieces each day.
Lauren and Jackye Manifested ‘The Amazing Race’
COLLIDER: Well, they inspired the world.
It’s the Amazing Sistahs, Jackie and Lauren.
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JACKYE CLAYTON:Good.
Wearing our signature purple.
I think we’re going to wear purple forever.
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COLLIDER: It’s a gorgeous color on both of you.
I approve of it.
JACKYE: Thank you.
COLLIDER: Now, I saw on your Instagram the photo that you created.
You manifested this opportunity.
LAUREN MCKINNEY:Did you see that, Michael?!
It’s almost like exact.
COLLIDER: If you could describe your experience onThe Amazing Racein a single word, what would it be?
JACKYE: I hate being cliche, but it is amazing.
That’s just the thing, for me, I feel like it’s amazing.
What about you sis?
LAUREN: Yeah, I know.
So it just was just exhilarating.
I’ll give it, I’ll give it that.
JACKYE: I think it’s really hard.
I don’t know.
I could do that."
Or some of the ones like, “Ooh, you could do that,” right?
If it wasn’t me, I knew she could do it.
But then we’re out there, you’re like.
LAUREN: It’s fast.
And what actually happened was insane.
I mean, it was go on another level.
So it’s a fast race.Faster than we even expected.And we expected a fast race.
COLLIDER: All right, let’s talk about our first leg.
We saw you going from Los Angeles to a very rainy Hong Kong.
What was your first reaction upon stepping foot in Hong Kong?
LAUREN: My first reaction was, “Oh my gosh, it’s warm.”
We didn’t know what to expect.
It was like tropical.
It was like being in a Caribbean Island.
And that was part of the exhilaration too.
It’s like, “Oh my gosh, we’re in Hong Kong.”
You read about it.
So that was my first, “Oh, it’s warm and balmy and yummy and gorgeous.”
What about you, sis?
And I was like, it’s so beautiful.
And there’s so much to see.
And it was so busy.
There were so many things that I really wanted to be able to see.
Raining, raining, and raining.
LAUREN: They kept telling us, “You’ve got to come back.
You’ve got to come back.
It’s beautiful in September.”
Everybody was trying to get us to come back.
We’re like, “We’ll be back.”
But we loved it.
It was beautiful too.
Team Purple Overcame Their Fears
COLLIDER: Now timing is everything.
Not making the ferry may have been a crucial moment in the leg.
Had you been able to board with everyone else, do you think you would have placed higher?
JACKYE: I do.
We absolutely would have placed higher.
Because dance and sing is our jam.
That’s all we do every day, all day.
Like when we’re together.
Don’t you think, sis?
JACKYE: Yeah, for sure.
LAUREN: We would have nailed it.
We were looking back at the tape, we’re like, you know what?
And I said, “You know what?
We could have done either.
So, it’s kind of like, “Oh, it hurts.”
It still hurts a little bit, Michael!
JACKYE: I dream of that moment.
And they’re like, “No.”
And it’s like, there’s this fantasy of me saying we’re going on.
And then we run, and we cross over, jump on the bridge, grab on the boat.
These moments that just turn and turn over our head.
ButI do have fantasy dreams about how we handled that one moment.
LAUREN: Make no doubt about it.
You don’t, because you never know what’s going to happen at the finish line.
It’s The Amazing Race.
LAUREN: There really was no time.
We just totally regrouped, re-strategized, and kept going all the way through to the end.
Jackye, we learned about your fear of the stairs and you conquered it.
It was truly a touching moment.
What was it like reaching that bottom step and feeling this sense of celebration?
They kept calling it a freak accident.
This is not anything we’ve seen before.
And I also didn’t tell people about it because it was so much.
And I don’t think I would have been able to deal with it in any other way.
And I was able to conquer it in front.
I don’t recommend doing it on television.
COLLIDER: Now that bamboo tower Lauren, you did that!
What was it like reaching out?
Top and pulling that clue?
This is another moment, anAmazing Racemoment that’s hard to describe in one word.
It was everything because it was all the training we had done.
It had been all the dreaming we had done.
I had wanted to go onThe Amazing Racewhen my kids were in middle school.
So I was in my thirties.
I’m now in my sixties.
I wasn’t, mind you, I was not expecting this at all.
And again, you know, we’re on national TV.
It’s like everything blanked out.
You know, if you don’t get that envelope, you’re done.
I was just ahh!
I still get excited, as you could see.
But it was, it was everything.
It was that moment.
This is my all in no matter what.
It was always like that.
And every time we get together, it was like a celebration.
We trusted each other to go through this experience with no one else.
And it didn’t feel like a game in that.
This is real life.
Like we are going for it.
Many reality stars took a trip around the world.
What does it mean knowing how much you’ve inspired people with just one episode?
LAUREN: Wow, you just even saying that is making me tear up again.
We had no idea what they were gonna put on the show.
We had no idea how we were gonna be portrayed.
Because imagine going on national TV with your greatest fear.
And having it displayed in front of all the world.
And that was the whole point.
And it’s like, “Listen, who you are is who we love.
That’s what makes you so great and so special and so amazing.”
It’s just still wow.It’s still real surreal for us.We keep absorbing it in pieces each day.
JACKYE: It’s a lot.
And I thought, “No,” we never thought ever.
JACKYE: That we would ever lose.
And we were in shock by that.
And so it was like hurtful.
And it was really hard.
We could do no wrong for our mother, by the way.
And so it was like always feeling like we weren’t going to have that opportunity like that again.
And so to be able to see that from other people has been amazing and overwhelming.
COLLIDER: I mean, you’ve definitely inspired me.
I’m actually in Nashville right now visiting my brother.
It’s the first time we’ve like hung out in as adults like this.
And I’m trying to convince him to doThe Amazing Racebecause we lost our dad a couple years ago.
And I think it would be a thing that would bond us.
We’ve been talking about it.
He would yell at me this week when he wouldn’t race across the street faster than he would.
He’s like, “If you’re going to do it, you have to train first.”
JACKYE: We’ll come train with ya!
I’m here for it.
Let’s do it.
JACKYE: In a second?
LAUREN: We’re packed.
We keep our backpack packed just in case.
That’s how ready we are to go again.
We talked about this.
Like, let’s go.
We would love to rerun the race.
JACKYE: Listen honey, I’m ready right now.
I’m not even carrying a backpack.
LAUREN: We stay in purple!
We never get out of our workout clothes.
JACKYE: Or our hoop earrings.
I may be stinky, but I’ll have my hoops too.
COLLIDER: I am always here to support team purple, even with my purple mug here.
so congratulations on an amazing, inspiring journey.
And I can’t wait to see what happens next.
LAUREN: Thank you!
JACKYE: Thank you so much.
Thank you for taking the time.
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