DeWanda Wise is one to watch.
, but found out almost exactly one year ago that her schedule would not permit her participation in the production. Rather than dwell on her disappointment, Wise sent a casual text to Rodriguez: “Is there a role for me in your next movie?”Someone Great
. “I’m very simple when it comes to the process. Story first. Is this something that I’ve seen in this iteration or incarnation before, and then, have I played this character already?” Wise said she asks herself. “It checked all those boxes. Then I binge-watchedand fell further in love with [director] Jen Kaytin Robinson’s brain, and that was it.”
At NYU, Wise initially planned to be a therapist, but she scrapped that plan to study acting. She does, however, take an academic approach to character work. “It’s super easy for me to take the side of any character I play because I try to operate from an inside-out place,” Wise says. “Who we are, where we come from, it dictates so much. It dictates how we lead. Like, this is super nerdy, but Erin has a pelvic lead.
Despite the fact that any character played by Wise will look like her, she also doesn’t want her characters to just be physical carbon copies of one another. That’s why she takes a hands-on approach to constructing each character’s outward appearance. “The first thing I do externally for a character is decide what their hair looks like,” she confessed. “I feel like some actors will choose a hairstyle and stop there, but I’m a black woman, and our hair is super versatile and diverse.
For Erin’s look, Wise settled on natural curls, and when she asked the production department if Jones could wear her hair natural as part of her character too, the request almost didn’t fly. “For a moment, they were gonna straighten her hair. I was like, ‘No, we can both have curly hair. We can just both have curly hair!’” she laughed.
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