Exclusive: Queen Latifah Talks Working With Lee Daniels on 'Star': 'He's the Reason I Am Back on TV'
Et caught up with the leads of Lee Daniels' new series, Star, which shows the dark underbelly of the music industry.
"We've been talking about these parts through the years," Queen Latifah tells Et's Nischelle Turner, revealing the original inspiration of the show. "Finally [Daniels] formulated it into what is Star."
Watch: Queen Latifah Speaks Out on Racial Tensions at Hip Hop Honors
The new drama follows Star Davis (Jude Demorest), a young woman who grew up in foster care and decides to track down her sister, Simone (Brittany O'Grady), and her Instagram best friend, Alexandra (Ryan Destiny), and travel to Atlanta in pursuit of music superstardom. Queen Latifah plays Carlotta, the group's surrogate mother, while Benjamin Bratt plays talent agent Jahil.
The series marks Queen Latifah's return to Fox following the success of her '90s sitcom, Living Single, and she admits her comeback to TV was all because of the show's creator.
"The reason...
"We've been talking about these parts through the years," Queen Latifah tells Et's Nischelle Turner, revealing the original inspiration of the show. "Finally [Daniels] formulated it into what is Star."
Watch: Queen Latifah Speaks Out on Racial Tensions at Hip Hop Honors
The new drama follows Star Davis (Jude Demorest), a young woman who grew up in foster care and decides to track down her sister, Simone (Brittany O'Grady), and her Instagram best friend, Alexandra (Ryan Destiny), and travel to Atlanta in pursuit of music superstardom. Queen Latifah plays Carlotta, the group's surrogate mother, while Benjamin Bratt plays talent agent Jahil.
The series marks Queen Latifah's return to Fox following the success of her '90s sitcom, Living Single, and she admits her comeback to TV was all because of the show's creator.
"The reason...
- 1/5/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Every decision made by Star, Simone, and Alexandra over the course of “Star’s” one-hour premiere could kill them. From escaping their respective foster homes to rolling into Atlanta strip clubs with the hopes of picking up a manager, Lee Daniels’ latest Fox pilot is driven by reckless teenagers making ill-informed choices. Atlanta-beauty-shop-owner-turned-surrogate-mom Carlotta Brown (Queen Latifah) starts the show with a bit of ominous narration — “fame ain’t nothin’ but a trip” — but the show doesn’t treat these teens as cautionary tales.
Instead, this confounding pilot depicts danger in the pursuit of stardom as desirable fantasy. Rather than honestly represent the storyline’s treacherous scenarios — which include parental, drug, and alcohol abuse, as well as more outrageous extremes like murder — Daniels’ drama exploits the perilous conditions it portrays, grounding its fantasy in a false reality.
[Editor’s Note: Spoilers ahead for the pilot of “Star.”]
Meet Star Davis (Jude Demorest), someone who, even before she ascended to the heights of pop stardom,...
Instead, this confounding pilot depicts danger in the pursuit of stardom as desirable fantasy. Rather than honestly represent the storyline’s treacherous scenarios — which include parental, drug, and alcohol abuse, as well as more outrageous extremes like murder — Daniels’ drama exploits the perilous conditions it portrays, grounding its fantasy in a false reality.
[Editor’s Note: Spoilers ahead for the pilot of “Star.”]
Meet Star Davis (Jude Demorest), someone who, even before she ascended to the heights of pop stardom,...
- 12/15/2016
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
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