Meagan Good has been within the leisure trade since she was 13 years previous. Whereas the performing veteran managed to create a reputation for herself as a performer with large vary, she beforehand struggled to interrupt away from the provocative lane Hollywood positioned her in.
Good was the most recent visitor on TVOne’s “Uncensored,” the place she mentioned her time within the trade and defined the lengths she took for individuals to lastly see her as an grownup actress.
She acknowledged, “At 23 I used to be nonetheless enjoying 16, kissing Bow Wow in ‘Roll Bounce’ who was really 16. You understand, I performed youthful for a lot, for thus lengthy and I actually wished to get to the grownup half.”
The “Harlem” star continued on sharing her wish to make a “transition” from a baby star to an grownup actor.
“All of us undergo this awkward stage,” Good defined, “and typically it’s actually onerous to transition out of it to the following part of your profession. ‘However, how do I get individuals to see me as a younger lady?’”
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A technique the 41-year-old determined to point out her viewers that she was not a baby was by starring within the 2003 music video for 50 Cent’s hit track, “21 Questions.”
“I used to be 21 and I assumed ‘How do I get individuals to see me as older,” Good stated. “I used to be like ‘Oh, I’ll use a video as a nationwide business saying I’ve arrived as a younger lady, in essence.”
Whereas her plan to interrupt away from being seen as a baby star was efficiently completed, Good instructed that the technique might have labored too “properly” in her favor.
“When it labored, it labored so properly that I sort of obtained pigeonholed in that sort of area,” she admitted. “It was like ‘Oh, properly you already know she’s a younger s-xy woman. So, like let’s simply let her do this and all the pieces.’”
“After which like after I would, you already know, have a look at different materials that was extra critical, or far more difficult all this stuff and I’d be excited to audition or meet on that, they’re like ‘No, you’re simply the s-xy woman.’ Like, ‘Don’t assume too onerous,’” she completed.
This stigma stayed on Good all all through her 20s, till she made the drastic determination to cut off all of her hair.
“No extra lengthy stripper s-xy hair,” she stated. “I’m simply gonna shed that fully, after which I made a decision to get again into TV.”
One of many first reveals Good did after this drastic transition was “Deception,” in 2013. All through the NBC authentic, she performed Joanna Loscasto, an undercover cop who’s attempting to uncover the homicide of her former finest pal.
Whereas the drama collection solely lasted one season, Good acknowledged the present as a “strategic transfer.”
Followers can now watch the star as a DC superhero in her newest movie, “Shazam! Fury of the Gods.”
