Retta Is Sick Of Playing “Sassy” Black Women Characters
, in which she and Christina Hendricks and Mae Whitman star as three suburban moms who turn to a life of crime.
The actor said she hopes that in the show's third season, audiences get to see a tougher side to her good-natured character. "I want Ruby to kind of get a little more badass," she said."I feel like I've spent two seasons crying. So I want her to come into her own. If she's gonna be in this business, this business of crime, I want her to be a little more self-assured and not so scared.Retta, who has previously complained of being typecast, also opened up tovideo-player.buzzfeed.com
"One of my least favorite adjectives, descriptors used for parts that I have to go in for, is 'sassy,'" she said."I don't know what it is. I have this aversion to it. When I see it, I assume something, I assume what I think they want, and I don't wanna be a part of it."when she asked if she could tweak the script to make her character sound “real ‘get.’”
“So I got into that mode because I felt it was appropriate for this particular scene and this particular character, but I just don’t like it being shoved down my throat,” she said.
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