'Greenleaf' is nothing like 'Empire.' I think 'Empire' stands alone in what they are doing. It's a wonderful show. The only thing that is similar though is that they are black families - the shows in it of themselves have very different dynamics.
I always loved acting, and that's what I wanted to do. It's funny that my first big role is a role where I'm going into a studio to record my singing.
I love the Lord. I did grow up in a gospel family.
Greenleaf' is about family, but also about faith and failure and real human life.
I love acting since I was little girl. I went to school for it; that's all I worked on. That's all I prepared for.
I remember telling the Lord - I was about seventeen or eighteen - I'm like, 'Lord, I'm never gonna sing. You know that's my family's thing; that not what I do.'
Being from a family in church and being a Christian myself, I pray daily.
I was at a point of asking God whether acting was what He really wanted me to do. Oprah Winfrey came to one of my workshops, and a couple of months later, she reached out to Uncle BeBe, who co-wrote 'Born For This.' Oprah told him she was interested in me for the role of Charity on 'Greenleaf' and asked him to help her contact me.
I just entered the wonderful world of 40s, so anything anti-aging, I'm jumping on.
Health and a positive body image are part of my personal values.
My parents would take us to double-feature movies on the weekends, and I would just point at the screen and tell them that that's what I wanted to do.
In a family of faith, you don't believe in divorce; you believe you can make it.
