Listen, one of our favorite Fly Girls, Tika Sumpter is out here WORKING! Not only did her show, OWN’s The Haves and the Have Nots just return for a second season, her new movie with Ice Cube and Kevin Heart, Ride Along, is do out next week, Annnnnnd the brown beauty is covering Rolling Out Magazine’s latest edition, shot by DeWayne Rogers and wardrobe by Jason Rembert.
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Inside the mag she drops some gems, including the ups and downs of being an actress;
When you don’t get a specific job and you’ve worked really hard on it; [or] when you read a really good script and you’re so close to getting a part and you don’t get it, it’s always hurtful,” she adds. “But what is for me is for me. My path is my path and it’s no one else’s. That’s how I’ve survived and it’s been in my head forever. You have a lot of disappointments as an actor. It’s a very tough business to get into and to be able to work [without being] a waitress on the side. You think ‘Oh, of course I can do that right now.’ But it’s definitely a wake-up call when you start out.
I don’t walk into a room thinking ‘I’m a black actress, ohmigod.’ I always think ‘I have as much talent as anyone else,’” she explains. “I’ve been black my whole life. I don’t even call myself ‘a black actress.’ White actresses don’t walk around calling themselves ‘white actresses.’ They’re just ‘actresses.’ I go in with the attitude of what is for me is for me and I’m going to make them remember me–even if I don’t get this part.”
I think one of the most important lessons that I’ve learned is to put your head down and work,” she says. “Don’t look at other people and compare yourself. Just do the work. Because when the opportunity is there, you have to be ready. Make sure your craft is refined and you’re constantly working on it. Plow through the weeds. Go to the auditions and go to the meetings and be on time. Stop looking to the left or the right. Keep your head down and keep moving.
Seems like life right?
You can read the entire interview over at Rolling Out!
-Stay Fly!
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