After the ATX Television Festival shared a very generous preview of the forthcoming P-Valley, show creator Katori Hall and actors Brandee Evans, Nicco Annan and Elarica Johnson hopped on for a vir…
Based Hall’s play is set in the Mississippi Delta and follows the lives of the complex characters who work at a small strip club. There’s Mercedes , who is the club’s star; the disruptor Autumn and the mother in charge of it all Uncle Clifford . For Hall, who also serves as showrunner, the story hits close to home for her as she is from the south and is part of southern culture.
Evans, who is a trained professional dancer, admits that she was not a fan of the strip club world before signing on to, but since stepping into the role of Mercedes, she has had a change of heart. “But now I will fight anyone who talks [bad] about a stripper,” laughs Evans. “No matter what happens in my life I’m always going to do pole [dancing].”
“At the end of the day, every person deserves their story to be told,” said Hall. “There is this long history of hypersexualized images of Black women — these women exist but they are very nuanced, complicated.” She adds that this series is in service of those who are marginalized and made to feel ashamed and dehumanized. “They have a space for their voices to shine.
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