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WATCH: Tiffany Boone Speaks On Becoming Gwen Fontaine
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5/29/2024
Actress Tiffany Boone talks about becoming Gwen Fontaine, wife of Huey P. Newton. "It was really just me trying to search out any little line, anything about her that I could possibly find because she's a very private person."
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In the Big Sikar, you play Huey Newton's wife, Gwen.
00:04
Tell me, what was that preparation process for you
00:06
when you were preparing for that role?
00:09
Yeah, it was really just me trying
00:12
to search out any little line, anything about her
00:15
that I could possibly find, because she's
00:17
a very private person.
00:18
And so there's no interviews.
00:21
There's no-- there's a good two handfuls of pictures.
00:25
And a lot of times, I just have to read a bunch of stuff
00:28
about Huey and hope that somebody would
00:30
mention something about Gwen.
00:31
So it was a lot of reading and research
00:34
and trying to look for things.
00:35
But also, it was just trying to fill in the blank spots
00:39
with Andre so that we could make sure that she was full
00:43
and their relationship had a full, well-rounded thing
00:47
for the show.
00:48
So that's interesting that you said that.
00:50
And filling in those blanks, since you
00:52
said she was really private and there wasn't a whole lot
00:55
of information about her, how did
00:57
you go about filling in those blanks?
00:59
And how did you implement, I guess,
01:01
your own style or your own little twist to the character?
01:07
Yeah, I mean, for us, talking to Andre a lot,
01:11
we were just really protective over their love story,
01:15
just showing a Black love story like theirs.
01:19
And so for me, filling in those gaps was like--
01:21
I feel like it would be really easy to just be like,
01:23
oh, Gwen was just this ride-or-die chick who
01:26
just followed him around and told him yes whenever.
01:30
And I think it's very easy to just be like,
01:32
she was in love with him, so she just went to Cuba with him.
01:35
But I think for us, it was making it more complicated
01:38
than that, because it was.
01:39
And I think even in the things that I read,
01:42
people were like, she was the person
01:44
that he could be himself with and who really saw him.
01:47
And she didn't take any BS.
01:49
So it was like, how do we fill that in?
01:51
How do we make the balance between her
01:53
being this really fierce woman who, like, a lot of pictures
01:57
you see of her, she's looking like this at everybody.
02:00
You know what I mean?
02:01
But obviously, there was a softness there.
02:02
She was a mother, and she loved him deeply.
02:05
So we just tried to make sure that every scene,
02:08
we can show a little bit of softness, playfulness,
02:10
joy, and the hard conversations they had to have.
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