Hey folks, Sam Jones here.

Welcome to another edition of Off-camera, the show where I get to talk to iconic,

creative, curious artists, and find out how they got that way.

And in this episode I sit down with actress Regina Hall.

Ever since Regina Hall showed up on screen as the hilarious sex-graven Brenda in scary movie.

She's never had to worry about getting work, but what she did struggle with was getting the

right kind of work, especially after discovering the flip side to success,

typecasting.

As she says, I wanted great parts and interesting work,

and as a woman, a black woman,

I wondered if that was even possible.

Despite her concerns about a career ceiling,

she continued to push for roles that were more nuanced and less broad.

Luckily, she had a thick skin, honed by growing up with three brothers,

which prepared her for the ups and downs of the industry and while many female

actress fear getting older in a business that values youth

Regina now in her late 40s is discovering that her career is blossoming with age.

In the past two years, she's been in the massively successful girls trip, has won multiple

awards for her role in the outstanding independent film Support the Girls and is now playing

her self-proclaimed dream role in Showtime's Black Monday, opposite Don Cheetal.

Regina joins off camera to talk about her earliest and wildest career ambitions,

how her father's unexpected death jump-started her acting career,

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