Jalen Rose talks taking on an iconic role with Cassandra Freeman
nypost.com“Fresh Prince” reboot “Bel-Air,” she had come off a heavy role and told her manager she wanted to play someone who was rich and beautiful.
She wanted lighter fare.“That’s it, I don’t wanna do any more sad stories about black people,” she told me on this week’s episode of “Renaissance Man.” “I’m like, ‘I’m done.
I don’t [want to] be crying in the street over my dead black boy. I’m done with that.’“But when this role came through, I was like, ‘OK, no, not this one,'” she continued. “And my manager called me.
He’s like, ‘This is literally everything on your list.'” But Cassandra didn’t think she’d book it. Her enthusiasm was unnecessarily lukewarm.“Then finally I saw [creator] Morgan Cooper’s trailer of his vision of this thing and I was like, ‘Oh, that’s brilliant.’ Cooper is a genius.”She was in Greece, on her first post-COVID vacation, when she learned she landed the part.
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