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.

I would like to believe that most people don't get married anticipating divorce.

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.

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.

I'm just really thankful to have the chance to portray a character you don't see every day.

Especially in this industry, women challenge men much more now because we're saying, 'We can do it, too.'

And there's also not enough films that are more of a imitation of what real life looks like.