![]() ![]() She says she would “love” to see Coop “just prove herself right” in her choices. “I was the one making beats on the cafeteria table.” ![]() “I wasn’t a troublemaker in high school,” she says. She’s definitely Bre-Z in high school, minus my parents kicking me out and joining a gang. “Suicide rates and things of that nature which hit the LGBTQ community are through the roof. “With the temperature of the world today, with suicide and mental health, it’s scary,” she says. ![]() It should not be … that you’re able to just shut out your child and throw them to the wolves. “I think when you bear a child, when you give birth, that love is unconditional. That’s a hurtful thing to neglect your children,” she says. I wanted that to be as true as possible.”īre-Z says that one scene on “All American” - in an episode where Coop was kicked out by her mother, a choir director, after coming out as gay - really resonated with her. She wants to be a boy or man.’ But I did not want to do that. I think that most lesbian characters on TV it’s like, ‘Oh, she’s gay. We see vulnerability, we see emotion, we see femininity. “I think with Coop you still see a young girl. Her exterior was so tough and there was no penetrating that,” she says. Spencer is recruited to play football in Beverly Hills by high school coach Billy Baker (Taye Diggs) the series is based on the true story of retired NFL linebacker Spencer Paysinger, who played for four NFL teams (including the Giants) from 2011-2017.Ī native of Philadelphia, Bre-Z’s first big TV role was on the Fox drama “Empire,” where she played Freda Gatz, a rapper signed to Gutter Life Records. On the series, which was gifted an additional three-episode order this week, Brez-Z (born Calesha Murray) plays Tiana “Coop” Cooper, a gay teen attending South Crenshaw High in Compton with her best friend Spencer James (series star Daniel Ezra). “Usually you leave and they call your agent - but they told me to my face that same day. “My audition process was just like any other audition but I got called back,” says the 31-year-old rapper/actress. ‘Whose Line Is It Anyway’ fate in the air as star claims unfair wagesĬontroversial LIV Golf secures TV deal with surprising networkīre-Z knew she’d nailed her co-starring role on “All American” during her first audition for The CW series. Misha Collins on new 'Gotham Knights' role: 'Tommy Lee Jones will spit on my face' LIV Golf ratings fell even more for final round in Tucson ![]()
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