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Gayle King Recalls Cicely Tyson Wanting to Direct, Having Another Project "Up Her Sleeve"

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On Friday’s episode of CBS This Morning, Gayle King reflected on her final interview with the late Cicely Tyson, who died at 96 on Thursday. “I have to say this was not a doddering 96-year-old woman who came in there,” King said of Tyson, whom she interviewed last week at a church in Harlem. “She was so full of life.” “She’s sitting there wearing Manolo Blahnik pumps,” King laughed.

Even in the late stages of her life, Tyson expressed her desire to direct in the future, among other endeavors. King recalled that the actress seemed to allude to a project “up her sleeve” to come. “She was so excited and so engaged, and as she said in her book: ‘I don’t want to sit at home doing butt prints, I want to get out and do something,’” King.

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