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I first learned about Madam C.J. Walker over five years ago when I finally decided to relinquish my years-long loyalty to chemical relaxers and, instead, embrace my natural coils. My obsession with all things textured hair was immediate andMadam C.J. Walker was an African American entrepreneur from the early 1900s who became the first female self-made millionaire in the U.S.
One of the things that really struck me about Madam C. J. Walker was how she was such a force within business. I knew that she had created these products and had run a business, but I actually didn’t realize that she was actually the first female millionaire in America — not just Black, or white, or any other type of women. She wasfirst female. And she was really on par with some of the titans of industry at the time.
“In the writers room, we really felt that we couldn’t do a show about Black hair and Black beauty without addressing the issue, so we wanted to explore the origins of that and understanding where Madam C. J. Walker came from helps put it into context. “Addie Monroe was a composite character. Madam C. J. Walker was one of the better-known hair culturalists at the time, but she certainly wasn’t the only one. There were many people, especially after her. So Addie Monroe was a composite of many different women of that day who were also making haircare products.
One of the things that we had discussed with Etheline was making sure that the hair was specific to the period, not only in terms of the hairstyle but also in terms of the quality and texture of the hair. We wanted to do a period piece where the hair didn’t look too smooth and polished because at that time it wouldn’t have been. They didn’t have the same tools, like a blow-dryer or the same types of hair straighteners, that we have now. Even the hot combs where different back then.
Even before we got into our official prep for the show, we didn’t start shooting until July 2018, but the month before that, we contacted Ethylene and got her on board and she started doing research and started collecting wigs because we didn’t know who we would have in terms of cast and extras, but we knew we were going to need them, so she was getting ready and styling wigs way before we were even in prep so that we would be ready.
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