Actress Erika Alexander on flexing her comedic muscles in ‘Reggie Dinkins’
The Treatment
KCRW
4.6 • 656 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Actress Erika Alexander became a household name when she starred as Maxine Shaw in the groundbreaking '90s sitcom 'Living Single.' After the show’s run ended, she continued to work in TV and film with roles in 'Get Out' and the 2023 Oscar-winning film 'American Fiction.' Now, she’s starring in the new NBC sitcom 'The Rise and Fall of Reggie Dinkins' with co-stars Tracy Morgan, Daniel Radcliffe, and Bobby Moynihan. Alexander talks to Elvis about keeping up with the sitcom's fast paced comedy, her hilarious chemistry with Radcliffe and Morgan, and what it was like growing up in the Southwest.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment. |
| 0:04.6 | I'm Elvis Mitchell. Welcome to the Treatment. We know actor Erica Alexander from her roles in the Oscar-winning film American Fiction and, |
| 0:22.9 | more importantly, The Groundbreaking Show Living Single. |
| 0:26.6 | Without it, there be no friends. |
| 0:29.5 | She's currently starring in the NBC comedy series The Fall and Rise of Reggie Denkins, with |
| 0:34.9 | Tracy Morgan and Daniel Ratcliffe. Our interview took place at this year's Sundance Film Festival. |
| 0:41.5 | Your character is Tracy's character's ex-wife and manager, |
| 0:46.3 | and they've known each other since they were teenagers, basically. |
| 0:49.0 | Yeah, they fell in love in the neighborhood, |
| 0:52.1 | and they both went to college, and he was a college football star. |
| 0:55.4 | And she was athletic, too. |
| 0:57.1 | She was in track. |
| 0:58.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:58.7 | But she also sees the whole picture, because it's funny, she's the kind of character |
| 1:03.6 | who would normally be like the sort of the filmmaker, like narrator of this thing. |
| 1:08.2 | So have somebody who's as big and infant as Tracy's character be that because Daniel's is |
| 1:12.8 | as much in need of attention as Tracy's character is. |
| 1:17.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:17.5 | So Daniel is playing the documentarian who is down on his luck. |
| 1:22.3 | He's had an Oscar. |
| 1:23.6 | He had an Academy Award. |
| 1:25.1 | But since then he just kind of flamed out. |
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