Nicole Beharie stars as a former beauty pageant queen determined to force her rebellious daughter to follow in her footsteps in director Channing Godfrey Peoples' feature debut 'Miss Juneteenth.'
The show offered a rare opportunity for a Black woman to lead a supernatural-themed drama. But after a promising first season, her character Abbie Mills was sidelined in the show’s second season before getting“What happened on ‘Sleepy Hollow’ is really interesting,” said Beharie tactfully. “We had a lot of things happen that paralleled the conversations that are happening in this moment.”
“My costar and I were both sick at the same time but I don’t believe that we were treated equally,” said Beharie. “He was allowed to go back to England for a month [to recover while] I was given Episode 9 to shoot on my own. So I pushed through it and then by the end of that episode I was in urgent care. And all the doctors, including the doctors that the studio was sending, were all confirming, ‘Hey, she can’t work right now.’”that, at the time, she attributed to her abrupt departure.
It was a harsh lesson in the fickle nature of stardom, and between Beharie’s “Sleepy Hollow” departure and the Sundance premiere of “Miss Juneteenth” earlier this year, she only booked a few roles including supporting parts in the acclaimed indie “Monsters and Men” and Hulu’s limited series “Little Fires Everywhere.”“I think Hollywood is an industry that’s difficult for everyone,” she added. “My particular walk is colored by a number of different things. And yeah, it has been challenging.
“I was very concerned when coronavirus first came into the consciousness,” she said. “I was a bit panicked because as a person of color and a woman, I have experienced the healthcare system and really have had to advocate for myself.”
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