A brand name brand-new episode of OWN’s hit series “Queen Sugar” airs tonight so it’s just right that we prepare by providing you a little something unique.
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Tina Lifford And Omar Dorsey Reflect On Their “Queen Sugar” Experiences
We wished to share an interview our Sr. Content Director Janeé Bolden carried out with Tina Lifford and Omar Dorsey, who play cherished couple Violet Bourdelon and Hollywood Desonier on the program.
We asked Tina and Omar about dealing with “Queen Sugar” for 7 seasons and the sort of responses they get when they satisfy fans.
“You understand what’s so insane? I could be in Kenya, I could be anywhere and the very first thing individuals state is ‘where is Aunt Vi?’” Omar Dorsey informed BOSSIP. “We’ve ended up being so associated with each other. I could be with my sweetheart and individuals will resemble ‘Where is Aunt Vi at?’ ‘I wear’t understand, however Crystal is over here.’”
“It resonates with individuals,” Dorsey stated about the relationship in between Hollywood and Vi. “Hashtag #RelationshipGoals. People enjoy to see that type of love on video camera, they like to see it showed and I believe that’s what I’ll take with me. Hopefully I’ll have the ability to bring that type of love, whether I’m directing or composing or acting in something once again due to the fact that it makes individuals feel great. It’s 2 individuals who actually enjoy each other. Two individuals we actually understand. That’s my uncle, that’s my auntie, that’s my cousin, that’s my bro, that’s my sis. We understand those individuals. That’s something I will constantly take with me.”
Tina Lifford validated that she too has actually fulfilled a variety of fans who anticipate to see her scene partner someplace close by when experienced.
“The other side of that story is my experience, due to the fact that when individuals satisfy me it’s, ‘Where’s Hollywood?’” Lifford informed BOSSIP. “So really we are viewed as one. One however with self-reliance, with difference. I believe among the important things that equate through the work that is an experience that I have with Omar is that it’s simply comfy to be together. I understand Omar’s girl, Crystal, she’s WONDERFUL right? But when I step on to set, there’s simply this genuine convenience like that’s my preferred home shoe or bathrobe right there. And there’s absolutely nothing kept back. There’s absolutely nothing covered. It’s simply the energy and I’m not simply speaking about our energy, however the energy of the concept simply leans into itself in a truly comfy method and individuals react to that. We make them feel great.”
So far this season Aunt Vi has actually remained in respectable health, however we asked Tina Lifford about her character’s lupus medical diagnosis and what it’s been for her to play somebody handling the illness.
“I feel that the authors resolved lupus remarkably,” Lifford informed BOSSIP. ” have good friends who are handling actually tough conditions, and there is a huge distinction in between the ones who are owned by their conditions and the others who are owned by living and Vi is owned by living. She doesn’t think of her lupus up until it appears and when it appears it’s constantly tension associated for her. She’s constantly being over-responsible or paving the way excessive of her energy away to somebody else. That’s when she has a flare-up. But when she’s not in her episode, Vi is constantly about living her life. I believe that’s a present the authors offer to the audience. When we concentrate on living, then the other things, the issues the difficulties all reside in the very same pail called life.”
After costs 7 seasons on “Queen Sugar,” we needed to ask Omar and Tina about their greatest takeaway from being on the program. For Omar Dorsey, he states Array Productions commitment to gender parity by utilizing just female directors on the program has actually assisted him grow in his craft.
“I’ve been doing movies given that 1998 and I’ve had one female director my entire life prior to “Queen Sugar,”” Dorsey informed BOSSIP, prior to exposing it was “Queen Sugar” developer Ava DuVernay, who directed him in Selma.”A female director may bring something out of me various than a male director might. A level of sensitivity instructions that a lady may offer me, or a method to take a look at a line, or scenario that a lady director may offer me may be various from what a male director may have offered. It offers me more colors as a star. I’m blessed with the 40-odd directors that we’ve had, females who can be found in and taught me a various method of acting without being beaten down with machismo, and having some kind of level of sensitivity to it, has actually made me a much better star.”
For Lifford’s part, “Queen Sugar” has actually permitted her to experience dealing with a group of individuals entirely dedicated to appearing and revealing out.
“What it has actually revealed me, is the power of intentionality,” Lifford informed BOSSIP. “I think that if we were to talk to all of the crucial gamers in this success, everyone concerned this celebration with an extremely clear intent and the intent really was lined up without us even understanding it. So it lived, it breathed, it broadened and it ended up being something higher than any of us separately might have visualized due to the fact that of the linked and resonating intent held by everybody.”
Beautifully stated!
Make sure to tune in to the brand-new episode of “Queen Sugar” tonight, Tuesday October 4th at 8pm EST / 7pm CST on OWN.