We chat with PraiseThisMovie star Anjelika Washington (AnjelikaW) about her new Peacock film as well as her career after Stargirl ended in 2022:
Praise This star Anjelika Washington chats about her new Peacock film as well as her career after Stargirl ended in 2022. Peacock has premiered one of its latest originals in the form of Praise This. From Tina Gordon, Praise This follows Chloe Bailey as Sam, who is an aspiring singer-songwriter. When she moves to Atlanta, Sam joins her cousin Jess' church praise team.
I sent in my tape last March about a year ago. Then I didn't hear anything until May, and then in May, they were like, 'Hi, great! [Praise This] starts in three days.' I was like, 'Oh, shoot, okay, amazing!' I literally packed up my whole life and left for the entire summer with two days notice. It was the craziest thing. But once I read the script, once my mind was refreshed when my manager called saying I booked it. Once I read the script, I laughed out loud so many times.
Once I got it down, knowing a song. it was like muscle memory. I just knew exactly what it was and how to perform that song on the drums. If you try to make me do any other song on the drums, you will be unpleasantly let down because I can not do any other song on the drums. I can only do that song! [laughs]
You mentioned that this was filmed in Atlanta, which is also where you shot Stargirl. Was there any piece in the movie that you'd already filmed before? Anjelika Washington: Yeah, I have a few. I would say that my favorite is everything at the Regional competition, which was outside. That was our very first week of filming. I think that it was just the funniest, because we were all getting to know each other. We're so excited to be there. It was hot, or as we know it, Hot-lanta it's hot Atlanta. We were outside most of the time in June-July, so it was terrible as far as heat goes.
There was so much that Chloe and I were just having a regular conversation and just us being ourselves. She'd be like, 'I want you to do that, in the scene at the top, just talk, do exactly what you're doing.' So a few of those moments made it into the movie, which is really exciting. It was regular life stuff that she was like, 'That's funny,' that we would be randomly talking about that she would just add-in. That part is really fun.
For someone who watches this film, and may not watch musicals that often, what do you hope they take away from this story? Anjelika Washington: It's nice sometimes to take like a two-hour break and live in this world where you know that it's going to work out. Sometimes I live for rom-coms, and a lot of comedies because I need to go into it knowing it's going to work out for this person. Because so much about our own life is unpredictable, not secure, not safe. We just never know what's going to happen, so it's nice sometimes to go into something knowing that this is going to end well.
You talk about how you are an aspiring director. If the show had come back for season 4, would you have directed an episode of Stargirl? Did you shadow any directors during the three seasons? In season 3, my parents were talking about getting me a new suit and building me a new suit. I would have loved it if Beth could have rocked that beautiful yellow and black suit, the traditional Beth Chapel super suit. Those are the things that I feel like I missed out on, being able to have that super suit and being able to explore more of the storyline like in the comics.
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