‘Genius: MLK/X’ star Jayme Lawson brings a poetic power to her role as Dr. Betty Shabazz, wife of Malcolm X.
What is “good taste” anyway? Allow your favorite actor, musician, celebrity, or comedian to let you in on what they’re watching, reading, and consuming.Jayme Lawson’s presence onscreen is an exercise in quiet power. She doesn’t have to say much for her intended emotion to be felt — she can communicate a whole essay’s worth of emotion with a near-imperceptible tilt of her head.
Betty was a movement leader in her own right, but we don’t always see her get credited for that. She’s not often portrayed with the level of care and attention that this show has given her. What kind of responsibility did you feel toward her? I can resonate with that and I understood that. There had to be a journey to that. What I love about this series is it provides us an insight to see how she finds her own way. There are all of these rules of how to be, what she should do and what she shouldn’t do. And she really had to figure it out for herself. Her religion had to be for. It couldn’t be her husband’s religion. It couldn’t be the nation. It had to be her own relationship with Allah, and I used that as a core grounding for her.
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