When you take the job, you never think about how many days you're going to take bullets. Sometimes you go on set and you're thinking, "Ah, a day when I don't have to get shot. This is going to be a nice day."

That's how it works in Westerns: the hero is minding his own business and trying to make a living, but he does something, the villain finds out about it and they have to have a showdown. So it's kind of a Western set to hip hop music.

I try to stay incognito as much as I can. I don't go places that people would expect to see me because I'm trying to lay low.

As long as I didn't have to put on the tiara and the chains and the big yellow shirt for the whole series, I was up for anything.

My mother wanted to be an actress. She wanted to follow her dreams and she never really got a chance to do that. I feel like I'm following her dream in a way. She's proud of me for doing what I wanted to do, but at the same time, I'm kind of taking up where she left off.

Harlem is really a melting pot for a lot of different people.

When you're casting, you get a page or two - just enough to do the scene. Now that you're in the world, you get the whole script.