Black Monday returns on Sunday, May 23. Starring
Don Cheadle and
Regina Hall, the comedy follows the drama behind the 1987 stock market crash.
Hall plays the irreverently hilarious Dawn Towner, the only female head trader on Wall Street. Fans can expect tons of twists, especially with her playing opposite Cheadle, who has earned two Emmy nominations for his performance in the series.
Hall, 50, chatted with
BET.com about her character’s evolution throughout the last three seasons including what she and Dawn have in common, and the lessons she has learned from other actors that she continues to use to up her own game in Hollywood.
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Black Monday’s first season was a tightly constructed doomsday clock of a dark comedy, counting down to the titular 1987 stock market crash and the mysterious death of one of its key players. Since then, the series has broken from that mold and wisely leaned into its stellar ensemble, following the nefarious and highly entertaining cast of characters wherever their greed takes them. At the start of season three, Don Cheadle’s Mo Monroe is running a small but successful music label, while Regina Hall’s Dawn Towner has been making the most of her prison sentence; in other words, their Wall Street days are in the past. But no matter how many times