![]() The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster arrived in theaters on Jand on Demand and on Digital on June 23, 2023. She’s extremely vulnerable and at times incredibly naive so those are all things that I could relate to and also pull from to play to play the character.” She’s extremely brilliant and super courageous and fearless, but also at the same time she’s 17 years old and she’s also figuring it out. I love that we get to explore this mad scientist. But at the end of the day, she’s just searching for family and that’s what it is. I think there’s obviously so much hurt and pain and trauma that it kind of manifests into this creation or this monster. When I was prepping for it and got to meet with Bomani and truly understand his vision, he gave me so much freedom just as an actor to pull from whatever I needed to pull from and completely play, which was very liberating. “I would say with Vicaria had a lot of things to pull from, and like Denzel and Chad were saying, duality, and also just a three-dimensional human being… You don’t get many characters like that very often, being this young and in the industry and wanting to lead a project, so just getting that e-mail on my inbox was exciting in the first place. “She’s bringing back life to the dead,” Hayes told BOSSIP. We were incredibly impressed by Laya DeLeon Hayes as Vicaria and had to ask her about her fearlessness embodying the role of a bright your girl who finds herself in over her head. It’s very similar and telling of people who we know actually from the community, who suffer the same thing.” He seems to be a secondary villain of this story, but in actuality you know there is a moral compass, there’s a compassion, there’s a humanity to him that we discover. With regards to my character Kango, when we first meet him, you know on paper he’s an antagonist. Conflict comes from many angles and their choices come from many angles. So what’s beautiful and this is all compliments to Bomani, the story he’s crafted and the characters that he’s woven, these are really three-dimensional characters. Generally, a lot of times you know when you get a script like this, that’s where it begins and ends. There’s this perception of who these characters should be. Human nature is complex in its existence and that’s why a film like this and representation to this level is important, because you know there’s all these preconceived thoughts. “So unfortunately you know when we talk about that duality we’re just as complex as anybody else. “Far too often we’re used to seeing depictions of us on screen and traditionally characters that were written about us but not necessarily coming from us,” Whitaker told BOSSIP. Ultimately the film proves his character is far from one dimensional. ![]() On the surface Kango is a local drug dealer, someone who is a menace to Vicaria and her friends. That same duality exists in Denzel Whitaker’s character Kango. Because they would have you say, ‘Well man, you know he doing crack, so he can’t show up for his daughter.’ That’s the furthest thing from the truth for many. ![]() Just because you do this, doesn’t mean you don’t still own this aspect of yourself. ![]() You see him and that’s what most people are like. It’s just always more than one thing and to see the character have to take it on from that perspective is amazing. We get sold one dimensionality because the ignorance of capitalism is to say, ‘I got to sell it to them so I got to dumb it down.’ That’s what I love about the script. “I think that’s the complex nature of existence,” Coleman told BOSSIP. We asked Coleman about his character’s duality in The Angry Black Girl and her Monster and why it made for a more realistic storyline. ![]() Chad Coleman plays Vicaria’s father Donald, a devoted parent who is also suffering from grief and struggling with a substance abuse addiction. ![]()
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