The trailer introduces her character, who is playing coy with her daughter, Delilah ( Laya DeLeon). PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Queen Latifah
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The 50-year-old star appears in the first trailer for the upcoming CBS series based on the '80s series-turned-movie franchise, in which she plays a single mother named Robyn McCall. Queen Latifah is getting in on the action in The Equalizer! The Equalizer will premiere on CBS after the big game! Robyn McCall was developed as a Black woman." "So it wasn't like (producers) wrote a script and then we decided to cast a Black woman in the role that was written kind of in the vanilla way. "I think one of the advantages we had was that we created this show for Queen Latifah," she said. There's just so many different things that are going on that made this show timely."Įxecutive producer Debra Martin Chase says that the show was created for Latifah. "We just didn't know that, God, would we need to see justice. "When we started this project, little did we know that we would face a pandemic we would face such amazing divisiveness in this country we would have to deal with a real, real hard look at the racial inequities, of the social inequities, of the financial inequities of this country," she said. I thought the idea of it was incredible and necessary and fun."
She said she liked the thought of "delivering some justice (as) a Black woman on network television. Want up-to-the-minute notification? FilmBook staff members publish articles by Email, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, Reddit, and Flipboard.Latifah explained in her interview why she decided to join The Equalizer.
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The cast also includes Chris Noth as William Bishop, Lorraine Toussaint as Viola “Aunt Vi” Marsette, Tory Kittles as Det.
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