It scared me a bit to the point of trying to go ahead and see this other fear that has been lying dormant for so long. But I think it was just that hunger of coming out of the program at Howard University, and putting in all those hours and feeling like you were learning something and excelling in something, and then someone puts the brakes on that. I guess it was very naive or brazen of me to feel like I was deserving of more so quickly in that space. I don’t have that kind of time.’ So that’s when I decided. And so, there was this environment based on seniority, and I was like, ‘So I got to wait for one of these guys to either die or retire. The camera operators and floor directors were older, mostly white men. And it wasn’t that I was really thinking of it in the sense of, ‘Oh, I can be groundbreaking in this space.’ It was just more of, ‘How do I get to the next level?’ And for me, looking around, no one looked like me behind the camera, behind the scenes. GABRIELLE DENNIS: Being a camera operator at a local news station, was very much me being one of a kind, while I was there. Max Credits Snafu Could Take Weeks To Fix Execs Didn't Know About New "Creators" Label Until After Launch 'Blindspotting': Jasmine Cephas Jones Discusses Ashley & Miles' Reconciliation In The Season 2 Finale
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Tell me about that time of your life and its influence on your career. Here, Dennis talks about how she got her start, the significance of Black identity and finding yourself.ĭEADLINE: You used to be a camera operator before switching to acting. In Apple TV+ sci-fi dramedy The Big Door Prize, she stars as Cass - the wife of Chris O’Dowd’s Dusty and mom to their daughter (Djouliet Amara) - a homemaker looking for a sense of purpose in unique ways outside of her small-town life.
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In HBO’s Emmy-winning sketch comedy series A Black Lady Sketch Show, Dennis plays more than a dozen characters to represent the Black female experience through absurdist humor.
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