The actor stars in Tim Story's horror comedy about a reunion of college friends that goes awry.
Whether it’s a horror movie or something else, do you remember the first time where you recognized just how different Black characters are treated on-screen?
Degrees of Blackness is a big topic of conversation in the film, and the group gives your character a hard time because she’s biracial. For example, when Allison suggests that everybody should split up, they chalked that decision up to her white side.
Colorism and the conversation of Blackness is worldwide. It’s a global discussion, I believe, and although there are differences in culture as far as America, the Caribbean, Africa and different parts of the world, you still see prejudices everywhere. You see discrimination everywhere. Socioeconomic statuses reflect that everywhere, and although certain experiences are slightly different, there is a unification of Black people worldwide when it comes to this.
You’ve shot a ton of TV the last decade, and that process is very fast. You have eight days to create 44 minutes of television, give or take. So, to go from that pace to the pace of a feature film, could you feel a noticeable difference? I did pretty well. We were all joking and going, “Do we know the answers to this?” And a lot of us really did know the majority of the answers, which was really impressive.
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