In terms of the black female audience, usually if you’re true to that character but more so in your body of work if you’ve proven that you love your sisters and you proven you will come back home like in 42.4% they’ll give you a pass when you jump ship. I hear it all the time.
BLAIR UNDERWOODSex in the City was a different kind of phenomenon because of the show itself is a phenomenon and to me that’s successful because to resonate with women across the board for six years and have only one African-American actor pass through for one episode.
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I haven’t done a lot of things in my career that my kids can watch, because they are 8, 6 and 3, and they are pretty young; so given the concepts that the film was about a superhero, it was a black superhero, and it was a father and son type partnership.
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It’s a music video but she was real specific on the character that Mary J. Blige was playing, and that I was playing in this video and I told her whenever you get to jump to the big screen I’d love to come with you and she honored that.
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I get to work and enjoy that part of me, but then I have time to have a life and be with my kids.
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It’s about strengthening the relationship and the bond of parent to child.
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To be still standing 20 years in this business is a great feeling, I can’t even tell you.
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That is the thing I’m most grateful for in this industry to be able to spin in those different mediums, with television, film and the stage – at this stage of the game.
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Sex in the City was a different kind of phenomenon because of the show itself is a phenomenon and to me that’s successful because to resonate with women across the board for six years and have only one African-American actor pass through for one episode.
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Two packed houses. I guess the theater sat 2,700 people every night so it was an amazing experience.
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It’s just different discipline, just doing the voice over. I guess I’ve done about 5 or 6 audio books in the past and I do the animated voice for a show called Fatherhood on Nickelodeon.
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We’re shooting for this Fall and that’s been a six year development right there.
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Krush Groove was a movie at the time. That was my first break. I just got to New York. I was right out of college and I was happy to have a job.
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My son had his eighth birthday recently and we had a chance to borrow the film and show it to all of his friends that was at his birthday party and they loved it. I was a little nervous.
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It’s something that was very interesting to me to be a part of and all of them again because of the relationship. Some of the superhero movies are better than others.
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My Soul to Keep is the ultimate love story with a black man and a black woman. I call it the ultimate love story. It’s about an immortal.
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The voice over is a hat you put on right now as opposed to worrying about going through wardrobe, and having to look a certain way.
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