Robin Thede and Gabrielle Union on Improvising ‘A Black Lady Sketch Show’ Scene and Pivotal Platform ‘ABLSS’ Offers Black Actresses

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'A Black Lady Sketch Show' creator and star Robin Thede says that the message of her variety series — “celebrating Black women” — is timeless enough that current events didn’t force any rewrites

Gab, I don’t know if you remember this, but we were in D.C. at a friend’s party after season one and were like, “We have to do something together.” I said, “Who do you like on the show?” and you said Dr. Haddassah. So then we wrote it, and originally it was Gab and her illustrious husband [Dwyane Wade], and then he had conflicts and had to go shoot other things, so we put a cardboard cutout of him and it honestly was the best decision we could have made.

I was supposed to do season one and I couldn’t get out of, you know, my other jobs, so she was like, “OK, season two, we’re going to figure this out.” So I said, “Yo, I’m obsessed with Dr. Haddassah, she’s fucking hilarious to me. So if you can figure out anything for me to do with Dr. Haddassah, I’m in.” So when she presented the idea, I fell out.

 

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