We love Whoopi, okay? First of all she is such a like a woman empowerment type of woman
like even one of the directors we found out that she had been like mentoring before Harlem
and they just happened to get a chance to work together
And then also I fell in love with Camille you know I was like this
is me secretly that nobody knows I’m so awkward
And I was reading this script like a book so they had me at hello
I think too like every character explores the reality that it's
okay to not have it all together. It's okay to be figuring it out
Meagan and Jerrie, welcome to Pinkvilla.
I'll jump right in. So what was about the series that like instantly got you on board?
For me it was the authentic, the authenticity of Tye just feeling like oh I know this person.
Tye is, okay I’m reading it and I’m a writer as well I’m a
poet so when I read something and the writing is bad it's hard for me to perform because I’m
rewriting it in my head and I was reading this this script like a book so they had me at hello
Everything that she said but you know the biggest thing for me is I see there's a lot of shows
out there that have like best friends and women of colour and different things like that but I
never quite saw myself. You know like being from the valley and how I grew up and
experiences that I had I didn't quite see my friend group exactly the way that I understood it
and when I see these girls, I’m like I know every single one of these girls. These girls are in
my friend group I can relate to them in every single way and and then also I fell in love with
Camille you know I was like this is me secretly that nobody knows I’m so awkward and I just
you know I really wanted a chance to play a character where you can be funny but you can
also be vulnerable and you can also be charming and you could also be trying to figure it out
but you can also be super strong and you know all these things because as women of colour
we're not monolithic and so being able to just have
something that is so complex and it's not
just Camille, every single one of the characters and sometimes that happens on show where
you have one or two characters like that and then someone else is kind of written as a
caricature or a stereotype or whatever it is and we don't have that at all on the show so it's amazing.
Yeah, exactly so you know I was lucky enough to get a glimpse of the show first before
everyone else and for someone who is in her 30s, I felt like I could relate to it because you
know it's like we don't have everything figured out so apart from that what do you think are
you know other things that women will take away from the show, they would relate to and you know?
That it's okay to be unapologetically you, it's okay for things to like not quite make sense but
for you to do them anyway. Also the value of friendship and sisterhood and the complexity of
that. These are four women who are very beautiful and come together in a beautiful way but
are very different and very strong-minded all four of them and so you coming into that
knowing like oh, I don't have to be a pushover in my friend group or I can be my more or
most authentic self and still be accepted and know that like I’m going to take the chips as
they fall and I still can be supported and we may get into some things but like we still
love each other and we still come back for it and so knowing that like friendships can be
complex but they're not disposable and that's what I
think these four women will show the world.
Yeah and I think too like every character explores the reality that it's okay to not have it all
together, it's okay to be figuring it out and I think that sometimes those are things that we
tend to like be embarrassed or we think that everybody else has it figured out they're you
know further along than we are and at the end of the day we're all just kind of like on this
journey helping each other and I think you see that in the characters, you see that in the show
and it gives allowance for it and permission for it and when you give allowance and
permission then you know someone else is allowed to be their best.
Megan also one question for you how was it working with Whoopi Goldberg with whom you
share some amazing exchanges in the show?
You know but I mean from the first day I met her I was an extra when I was 10 years
old in a movie she did called Soap Dish and I met her like in the mall and I was like oh so I
was like it's such a like moment of just like full circle but she's really lovely and really kind
but also like authentic and unapologetic I think sometimes when we're kind we tend to like at
least for me personally I put out the energy of just like wanting to be pleasant and sometimes
I’m not necessarily feeling that way but the child actor in me does it anyways and I think that
Whoopi is very free in herself and unapologetic in a really like pleasant, honest like just
authentic way so anyway I go on and on, I love her so much.
Thanks so much guys.