It's such a nice change to get to play a wretched, shallow, mergers-and-acquisitions woman. My true colors come out.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
For me, I don't feel it is a success in the career to be the pretty woman; career success comes from being characters who tell us something about the truth.
I always look at things half full and definitely see a change in how things are going as far as black actresses and their opportunities.
In essence, I owe my career to Garry Marshall. There was no known reason for him to hire me for 'Pretty Woman.'
When I look back on my career, I go, 'This is really great, I've played so many different women.'
There seems to be a theme running through the women I play. They take their circumstances and try to make the best of them.
From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.
I'm naturally athletic, and I think playing strong, female roles just kind of happened.
There are many amazing female directors that made work in more skewed times, so we should be thankful for the boundaries they pushed through.
My whole drive to be an actor was finding roles that I really believed represent modern women, the struggles that we deal with. Women who are strong and capable and in control of their own lives.
I've been very lucky with the roles that I've played in that they were wonderful roles for women. They're incredible, flawed characters that I really gravitate toward. I just never want anybody to be able to put me in a box.