We watch each others' scenes. There is a natural chemistry. You can't have a crazy diva walking around saying, "As long as I'm lit well As women we're taught early on to be polite, to be nice, to not make anyone uncomfortable. But I always remember this great line from a movie: "All we have You don't get any points when you get to heaven for putting up with bullshit.
Much of my journey as a rape survivor has been in the shadows. The post-traumatic stress is like being locked in this excruciatingly joyless place.
I hope people see Gabrielle Union, rape survivor, as the same person as Esther, because we are the same. When I first started acting, I was always cast as the sassy, asexual black friend. My peers were shoved into similar limiting boxes, as there weren't a lot of opportunities for actors of color.
The available roles were oftentimes racist, sexist or woefully underdeveloped. I would read certain scripts and think, You can't be serious. View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro.
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Movies 22 06 Movies 17 04 Movies 16 06 Movies 29 05 Birthday: 29 Oct Related Articles. Nia Long Heads For Keanu. After she graduated, the agency invited her to sign on with them as a model and Union agreed, eager to begin paying off her student loans before entering law school.
She soon found herself gracing the pages of publications such as Teen magazine. After modeling for a short time, Union decided to try her hand at acting. Her first audition, in , resulted in a guest part on the television show Saved by the Bell: The New Class.
She had a recurring role on Seventh Heaven, and in made a landmark appearance on the long-running sitcom Friends. Union, playing a woman who dates both Joey and Ross, had the distinction of being the first minority love interest on the show.
In the midst of her steady television appearances, Union also began winning small roles in feature films. She trained hard for the role—gaining new respect for cheerleaders—and brought to the character a sense of uncompromising inner strength.
The movie was a big hit, and Union found herself with millions of new fans. Around the same time she scored a lead role on the short-lived television series City of Angels. Union enjoyed her character, a surgical resident in a Los Angeles hospital, but when the series was canceled, her schedule could more easily accommodate film roles.
And the roles kept coming, with Union appearing in two major films in Both films, The Brothers and Two Can Play That Game, featured black casts and dealt with issues of romance, commitment, and faithfulness. In the midst of her busy schedule, Union managed to fit in her wedding to Chris Howard, a former running back for the Jacksonville Florida Jaguars.
Howard had moved to Los Angeles after his football career ended, in order to be closer to Union. He became a sports therapist and worked for the Fox Sports network. Union encountered another busy year in , appearing in two films. To research the role, she spent time with a blind woman at the Braille Institute.
While both movies offered Union a chance to explore new types of roles, she longed for a more significant movie part. The following year she got that role, playing the title character in Deliver Us from Eva. The film, loosely based on the play The Taming of the Shrew by English poet and playwright William Shakespeare — , tells the story of eldest daughter Eva, who takes over as guardian of her three younger sisters after the death of their parents.
She continues to exert control over their lives even as they reach adulthood, much to the dismay of their husbands and boyfriends. The men hatch a plot to stop Eva from meddling in their affairs. Naturally the plan is complicated when the playboy falls in love with Eva, and she with him.
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