On a wild ride through Hollywood, quintabrunson riffs on racist television execs, celebrity giving, and whats next for her hit series 'Abbott Elementary'
— came on as executive producer. Together, they honed Brunson’s ability to make high-level network TV. Brunson’s hopes forexemplified her commitment to making television with nuanced, relatable Black characters. She recalls early hurdles with CBS. Like the matter of her character’s mode of transportation. “I wanted her to ride the bus. She was working at the museum,” Brunson says. Network executives objected to that. Why? “They thought that looked too poor to be enjoyable,” she explains.
By the time the year 2021 began, local outlets declared that there had been more homicides in 2020 than there had been in 30 years. In October 2020, Brunson and West Philadelphia Councilwoman Jamie Gauthier discussed community safety in the face of gun violence on an Instagram Live they organized. “I ran up on her social media one day, because I was like, ‘Is anybody doing anything about this?’” says Brunson. “My cousin had just died, and I just was, at that point, mad.
The show has partnered with Scholastic to provide free book fairs across the country, and has worked with other organizations to present a third-grade teacher and her southwest Philly school with new books, school supplies, a $40,000 check, and a new hallway mural. Personally, Brunson is looking forward to testing Janine, who, she says, she’s very different from. Real-life Brunson might want to strangle Janine, she clarifies. She more so identifies with Principal Ava Coleman, many of whose lines are things Brunson has said in the writers room.“There’s one line in there that’s specifically taken directly from my mouth,” Brunson explains.
When Brunson brings me to Universal Studios Hollywood, it’s Easter Sunday and very busy, which she jokingly finds sacrilegious. She’s something of an expert on the park and professes to know the grounds like the back of her hand. “Fun fact, I’ve been almost kicked off the [studio tour] tram before,” Brunson had explained. “The [guide] got one of the facts wrong, and I was like, ‘That’s not accurate.’ She was like, ‘OK.
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