Megan Thee Stallion Reveals She Read for Mercedes on 'P-Valley' Before Appearing as Tina Snow
etonline.comseason 2, Megan Thee Stallion originally read for the role of Mercedes Woodbine. “They had asked me to read for the part. So, I was like, ‘Okay, cool,’” Stallion tells Nadeska and Ebro Darden during an interview for Apple Music 1.
The part, instead, went to Brandee Evans, whom the rapper praises for “tearing it up” on creator Katori Hall’s hit drama about lives in and outside of the notorious Chucalissa, Mississippi, strip club called The Pynk. “I’m like, ‘Oh, s**t,” I feel like I look like a little kid in my tape, in my little audition tape,” Stallion recalls. “So, getting to look at the show and remember those lines and see everything, how it played out, I was proud.
I was like, ‘This s**t is hard’ -- even without me in it.”Of course, Stallion eventually made her way through The Pynk with a guest-starring role as a rapper who collaborates with Lil’ Murda (J.
Alphonse Nicholson) on a song before inviting him to go on tour with her. The character first appeared off-screen in episode two, when her voice was heard.
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