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Southland was not written for a black woman.

Regina King

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Regina King
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 15
Actor
Film Actor
Film Actress
Television Actor
Television Director
Voice Actor
LA
California
Regina Rene King
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Woman
Black

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You always make a film with the hope that all types of people will want to see your work and that it doesn't matter about your color, but unfortunately it still does.
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It's an honest place to be if you don't understand someone else's experience, but there's no way for the other to understand if a conversation or an explanation isn't made.
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I can work inside the boundaries of Erika Murphy, or whoever the character is. It's fun to create somebody that's not you, that doesn't exist.
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And just because someone doesn't understand doesn't mean they don't want to.
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Especially in this industry, women challenge men much more now because we're saying, 'We can do it, too.'
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I stay in tune with my family and God.
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My mother was a single mom, and most of the women I know are strong.
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If your woman is asleep every time you get home, shes just really tired. Of you.
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I watch ESPN all day. If you come into my trailer, ESPN is on. That's the first thing I do when I leave the set.
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Race is a very sensitive subject.
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I think I've been lucky in the regard to have a team that sees me as an artist.
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I've tried to be flexible in my career by doing a little bit of everything and that's worked for me.
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I love my city and I feel like the majority of the people that are in the city are people from other cities. So I think that L.A. sometimes might get a bad rap because it's known to be so Hollywood-oriented and then underneath that you have crime. But that's really the case in pretty much any major city that you go to.
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I went to public - I graduated from publics - Westchester High. I'm a product of LA Unified.
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I never really loved school through junior high, but then I started running track my freshman year, and I was just like, 'Wow, this is cool!
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Men. You can't live with them, you can't... no. That's about it.
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The good news for me is that I have an amazing team behind me, and they've been with me for 20 years now - almost 20 years. And they have seen me as an actress, not necessarily just a black actress. So I have been lucky enough for them to see me that way.
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Legally Blonde 2 wasn't written specifically for a black woman.
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People love to see themselves on screen in a way that makes sense and seems on point.
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I would like to believe that most people don't get married anticipating divorce.
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