Share Regina King, Long May She Reign By trusting her instincts and playing the long game, Regina King has established herself as Hollywood royalty. By Hunter Harris
Regina King was looking for her
Titanic. After three decades in Hollywood as an actress, starting with her child-star beginnings on the sitcom
227, King felt ready to move behind the camera, to direct her first feature film. She d helmed episodes of television (
Scandal,
Insecure,
Being Mary Jane), but directing TV is a little bit like being a day player, where you parachute onto a set to execute the showrunner s vision. King asked her agents to find a script for her: I told them I would love to do a film that was a love story with a historical backdrop, like a