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Ahead of her caller docuseries The Hair Tales, Tracee Ellis Ross reveals however she and costar Marsai Martin truly felt astir Black-ish's hairsbreadth episode. Find retired what she had to accidental here.
Tracee Ellis Ross' New Docuseries Has Style & Substance
Tracee Ellis Ross is getting to the basal of her Black-ish hair journey.
The histrion is opening up astir however the celebrated ABC sitcom depicted Black hair, including a famous 2020 occurrence entitled "Hair Day." And though the play six occurrence premiered to mostly affirmative reviews, Tracee exclusively shared with E! News that the story—in which Bo's daughter Diane (Marsai Martin) grapples with the determination to unbend her hair—isn't 1 she would replicate.
"Honestly, that episode, Marsai and I had thing to bash with," she explained. "The writers did that. They plugged america into it. We didn't adjacent cognize it was coming. It was a beauteous occurrence and it was wonderful, but it truly had thing to bash with the benignant of communicative I wanted to tell."
Tracee says Marsai, 18, felt the aforesaid way—which is thing they sermon successful Tracee's upcoming docuseries The Hair Tales, in which she interviews the young actress about her burgeoning travel with earthy hair.
"We speech astir that a small spot successful our interrogation successful Hair Tales, due to the fact that it was really a hard occurrence for Marsai and I," Tracee noed. "Because of immoderate things that came up successful the penning that didn't truly lucifer the benignant of communicative that we needfully wanted to tell."
Now, the Girlfriends alum is forging her ain way successful her six-part docuseries that celebrates Black women's hairsbreadth and everything that comes with it—including style, civilization and politics. Each occurrence successful the series, which she made with Onyx and OWN, centers connected a speech betwixt Ross and different starlet—in summation to Marsai, she'll chat with Oprah Winfrey, Issa Rae, Rep. Ayanna Pressley, Chika and Chloe Bailey.
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These nuanced conversations, Tracee says, are much on the lines of what she wanted to explicit each those years agone connected Black-ish.
"This truly is an look of what I privation to beryllium sharing—the fullness," she added. "I anticipation Black women locomotion distant feeling seen and loved."
The Hair Tales premieres Oct. 22 connected Hulu.
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