In honor of her 55th birthday, fans are recirculating the unbelievable connection that links Julia Roberts to Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King.
wrote about the racism and bigotry Bredemus and her husband faced for allowing Black children to attend their acting school.
Yolanda King was cast as the love interest of a white actor in one of the school’s productions and the two shared a kiss in a scene.in 2013 detailing his experience at the Atlanta school. He revealed a car exploded near the theater after their kiss.“A man, a tangential member of the Ku Klux Klan, had seen me kiss Yolanda the day before in the same parking lot,” the author wrote. “The Klansman had come around the day before the explosion in order to make trouble.
The playwright continued, “Yolanda King spent the rest of her life involved in theater; my brother, Scott DePoy, who had joined the workshop before I had, continues to work all over the Southeast. Eric Roberts eventually went to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. I understand that even his younger sister got involved in acting.”“Mr. Roberts was so imposing,” she said at the time. “I loved him, but I was also a little intimidated by him too.