Screen Rant had the pleasure of participating in a set visit of TheMsPatShow, where we spoke to the talented young actors who play Ms. Pat's kids, brittany__inge, Vince Swann, Briyana Guadalupe & Theodore Barnes, about their roles on the betplus series:
Brittany Inge, Vince Swann, Briyana Guadalupe, and Theodore Barnes star in The Ms. Pat Show, executive produced by Jordan E. Cooper. The Emmy-nominated BET+ original sitcom centers around the trials and tribulations of a fictionalized version of Ms. Pat, played by the legendary stand-up comic herself. Brittany Inge plays Ms. Pat’s oldest daughter, Ashley, and Vince Swann plays her son, Brandon. Meanwhile, Briyana Guadalupe and Theodore Barnes play the two youngest kids, Janelle and Junebug.
I especially see it in Janelle too."Well, Mom, no. Because I've learned through my own work and my own research that that's not the way things go," or Ashley fighting to say,"I'm going to become a therapist, so that I can help people deal with trauma, because I grew up watching my mom not deal with hers." I think you see that in all the kids in different ways, aspiring to be the next generation that overcomes and breaks the cycle.
Screen Rant: The show is based on Ms. Pat's life, but still very fictionalized. How is it day-to-day on set playing versions of her kids to such a big personality? Brittany Inge: It feels like a lot of fun, and it also feels like a lot of healing. I think sometimes, for her, when we're going through different scenarios and she's having to have a tough conversation with Ashley or apologize to Ashley, I know that that's a therapeutic moment for her. And for me, even though I'm not the real Ashley, I'm able to embody that moment for both of them.
I know for a fact that Pat - 'cause she's talked about this, when Ashley came out to Pat, Pat was like,"Okay, girl, do your thing." It wasn't a big thing. Was it difficult for her to understand within herself a little bit? Yes, but she didn't necessarily give her child a hard time. But that was a message and a story that they wanted to tell on the show to help get that message across; get Black families to understand that your child is still your child.
Briyana Guadalupe: And I think also, that's why the audience members like that. Because they'll watch one take, and then we'll do it again, and it's completely different lines. They'll whisper,"Do this," or"Try this." And so, it keeps them on their feet too. Like,"Wow, I wasn't expecting that." You think you're just gonna get the same old lines, but it's always being reinvented.
I believe that the character arc with that, in and of itself, is kind of him looking at himself. Like,"You know what? I need to kind of figure some stuff out here," but he's going to do it on his terms, and in his way that he thinks is best for him. Video games is the thing that's best for him right now to make that transition. And Brandon is also the type of kid that goes,"Hey, that don't work out? I'll figure something else out.
But at the same time, she's coming from Atlanta, her roots, where she's being brought to a whole 'nother place that she knows nothing about. She barely has any friends, so I feel like she's still trying to figure out her place in where she is, and she's a little bit uncomfortable. Now, she's kind of forced to try things and figure out who she is. But I will say it's been fun, and I'm excited to see where else we can push that and where else Janelle will go.
Brittany Inge: I would say coming into the show season 1, I was excited. I felt like the scripts were groundbreaking; they were artful, and that's what excited me the most. I felt like it was something BET and BET+ had never done. And so I was like,"Oh my God, I'm so excited to be a part of this." Also, Jordan E. Cooper is phenomenal, so I was excited to work with him.
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