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House Of Payne actress Keshia Knight Pulliam is totally in love with her boo, actor Brad James. To show him love on his 39th birthday, the handsome couple spent a day on out on the water as a perfect social distancing date.
Pulliam let the world know just how much her man is loved with an endearing Instagram post. “Happy Birthday my love. Let’s keep creating amazing memories every day!!,” she captioned a series of photos from their day out on the water. “Love you to infinity and beyond,” she said in her “best Buzz Lightyear voice.”
A post shared by Keshia Knight Pulliam (@keshiaknightpulliam) on Jul 7, 2020 at 10:09pm PDT
Pulliam and James, who went public with their relationship in 2019, are both hard working actors. Pulliam got her start on The Cosby Show as the beloved “Rudy” and went on to score more roles, as well as her own cooking platform called Keshia’s Kitchen. James is known for his roles in Tyler Perry’s For Better Or Worse and the UMC show A House Divided. The pair first met on the set of the TV movie Pride and Prejudice.
“Honestly, we just hit it off. We had a lot of down time,” Pulliam once said during an Instagram live. “There was a lot going on filming that project. So there were plenty of times where we would all be sitting in the cast seats or the van and just talking.” After exchanging numbers to discuss scripts they wanted each other’s feedback on, their chemistry ignited and things soon took a romantic turn.
Congratulations on your Daytime Emmy nomination for A House Divided!!! I’m so proud of you baby 
A post shared by Keshia Knight Pulliam (@keshiaknightpulliam) on May 21, 2020 at 9:08pm PDT
Prior to meeting James, Pulliam was married to ex-NFL star Ed Hartwell with whom she shares a daughter named Ella.
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House Of Payne actress Keshia Knight Pulliam is totally in love with her boo, actor Brad James. To show him love on his 39th birthday, the handsome couple spent a day on out on the water as a perfect social distancing date.
Pulliam let the world know just how much her man is loved with an endearing Instagram post. “Happy Birthday my love. Let’s keep creating amazing memories every day!!,” she captioned a series of photos from their day out on the water. “Love you to infinity and beyond,” she said in her “best Buzz Lightyear voice.”
View this post on InstagramA post shared by Keshia Knight Pulliam (@keshiaknightpulliam) on Jul 7, 2020 at 10:09pm PDT
Pulliam and James, who went public with their relationship in 2019, are both hard working actors. Pulliam got her start on The Cosby Show as the beloved “Rudy” and went on to score more roles, as well as her own cooking platform called Keshia’s Kitchen. James is known for his roles in Tyler Perry’s For Better Or Worse and the UMC show A House Divided. The pair first met on the set of the TV movie Pride and Prejudice.
“Honestly, we just hit it off. We had a lot of down time,” Pulliam once said during an Instagram live. “There was a lot going on filming that project. So there were plenty of times where we would all be sitting in the cast seats or the van and just talking.” After exchanging numbers to discuss scripts they wanted each other’s feedback on, their chemistry ignited and things soon took a romantic turn.
View this post on Instagram Congratulations on your Daytime Emmy nomination for A House Divided!!! I’m so proud of you baby
A post shared by Keshia Knight Pulliam (@keshiaknightpulliam) on May 21, 2020 at 9:08pm PDT
Prior to meeting James, Pulliam was married to ex-NFL star Ed Hartwell with whom she shares a daughter named Ella.
The post Keshia Knight Pulliam Wishes Boyfriend, Actor Brad James A Happy 39th Birthday appeared first on Essence.
Wow. Greetings to our loyal listenership and to our more recent Afronerd Radio supporters. We are having a very special Sunday Grindhouse broadcast (6pm eastern) where we are honoring the life and times of fellow host and show architect, Kirk Goodall who passed last Sunday after succumbing to a brief illness. Kirk started with the Afronerd Radio "steam engine" almost a decade ago and frankly, he was an integral component (the "soul") of the show's development, marketing strategy and promotion of black nerd culture/intellect as a distinct "product." Kirk was an athletic, pensive and quick witted individual who really was the embodiment of a "superhuman" coming off the pages of our beloved comics. Please join us as we play his first appearance on Afronerd Radio (9.5.2010), additional clips and accept calls from family, friends, fans and Afronerd past/present team members.
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This past weekend, during a conversation on Instagram Live with hairstylist Christin Brown, Halle Berry shared that she’s planning to play a transgender man in an upcoming film.
According to Pink News, Berry said the project came across her path years ago. But was sidelined in order for her to star in and direct her first film, Bruised.
In describing the film, Berry already misgendered the character.
“[The role is] a character where the woman is a trans character. So she’s a woman that transitioned into a man. She’s a character in a project I love that I might be doing.”
She continued, “I want to experience that world, understand that world. I want to deep dive in that in the way I did Bruised. Who this woman was is so interesting to me, and that will probably be my next project, and that will require me cutting all of my hair off.”
She added: “That’s what I want to experience and understand and study and explore… it’s really important to me to tell stories, and that’s a woman, that’s a female story – it changes to a man, but I want to understand the why and how of that. I want to get into it.”
There are a lot of issues here.
One, from Halle’s own admission, there’s a level of ignorance that’s a bit concerning, particularly when telling stories about a marginalized, underrepresented minority. There’s the issue of cisgender characters taking on the roles of trans people. And even the fact that Berry is talking about her transition as a hair cut.
Surely, the role could go to someone who already shared that lived experience.
Just two years ago, actress Scarlett Johansson was criticized for her role as a trans man in Rub and Tug. She ultimately dropped out of the project.
Recently, Netflix released a whole documentary called Disclosure about trans representation in media over the years. Notably, the interviewees spoke about cis gender character playing trans people further lends credence to the idea that being trans gender is not entirely real, that there is still a level of deception to it. They referenced Jared Leto in his role in Dallas Buyer’s Club. For the brilliance of his portrayal, when he accepted the Academy Award for the role, the world saw him presenting as a man.
With so few trans stories being told, it’s time Hollywood focus on getting it right. And there are examples that it can work. (See: “Pose” and Laverne Cox in “Orange is the New Black.”)
Furthermore, if a trans person were awarded the role, they could just play the nuisances of the character instead of having to do the additional work of playing trans in addition to this character’s personality.
After the scandal with Johansson, several Hollywood production companies signed an open letter calling for the industry to “use its power to improve the lives of trans people” by telling stories “authentically” with trans actors and creatives.