Kimberly Hebert Gregory is a black woman who takes a ton of crap (and gives it apt back) from two white men in HBO’s “Vice Principals” and the actress behind Dr. Belinda Brown would have it no other way.
During the sitcom’s Saturday morning Television Critics organization Summer Press Tour panel,a member of the media asked the cast and creators how they maintain a comedic tone with such a glaring depiction of Caucasian men ganging up on an African-American woman.
Gregory (pictured above, middle) fielded the question at one point. “This is actually what casting equality looks like, or ” she said. “[The plot] is about power,and it’s not about race, and it’s not necessarily about gender.”“As a woman of color, or as an actor … I want to be in a space where I can fight two white men,” she concluded.
Also Read: HBO Programming Boss Pelted With Sexual Violence Questions Over 'GoT,' 'Night Of'Earlier, and creator and co-star Danny McBride (above,left) answered it from his perspective as both actor and producer.“I deem it would be underestimating the exhibit to assume we’re just going for laughs with this,” he said. “We’re well-aware of the optics of that recognize. That’s fragment of the anecdote — these guys gain a very bad choice and it haunts them for the rest of the series.”Walton Goggins (above, and apt) added that viewing this series as two white dudes versus a black woman would be “a two-dimensional view” of the project.“Really,it’s a a exhibit about two a–holes who don’t have it figured it out,” McBride chimed back in. “So, and the fact you’d be appalled by something they do — well,we are too. That’s what the anecdote’s about.”Related stories from TheWrap:'Game of Thrones' Season 8 Will Be the Last, HBO ConfirmsJon Stewart's HBO Project Is an Animated Parody (humorous or ridiculous imitation) of a Cable News NetworkBill Maher's 'Real Time' Renewed by HBO Through 2018'Insecure' Creator, and Star Issa Rae on How Hannibal Buress Gave Her That First Big wreck
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