Always And Only
When the role is right for Angela Bassett, only she will do. That’s why the team behind Fox’s
9-1-1 built the show around her — producers and directors crave the strength and self-respect she always brings to the screen. As a young actress, she says, she’d do without rather than take a job “that would degrade Black women or the Black female experience.”
Margy Rochlin
For her HBO series,
A Black Lady Sketch Show, Thede envisioned a support group for imposingly glammed-up, lipstick-y women who have a horror of showing their unadorned faces in public. She modeled the leader of the therapy session — a fierce and supremely confident woman — after Bassett.