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Regina King Is Ready to Seize Her Moment: “You Give Us a Little Window, We’re Going to Kick It All the Way Open”

In a frank discussion with fellow filmmaker Gina Prince-Bythewood, the ‘One Night in Miami’ director — who has been thrust into the awards conversation a year after claiming her best supporting actress Oscar — opens up about ambition, success and how best to use her megaphone. There was no pre-Zoom huddle about wardrobe, yet fellow […]

Regina King, Long May She Reign

By trusting her instincts and playing the long game, Regina King has established herself as Hollywood royalty. Regina King was looking for her Titanic. After three decades in Hollywood as an actress, starting with her child-star beginnings on the sitcom 227, King felt ready to move behind the camera, to direct her first feature film. She’d helmed […]

Regina King—Long May She Reign

In the middle of one of the most rewarding periods of King’s career and an unprecedented crisis in the world around her, the actor and director is stepping into the spotlight—and her power.  Regina King has survivor’s guilt. Somehow, amid the relentless existential punishment of 2020, King is having one of the best years of […]

Regina King: ‘Now That I’m in My 40s, People in Power Are Recognizing’ My Talent

The Oscar-winning actress just directed her first feature film One Night in Miami She’s won three Emmys and an Oscar but actress Regina King, 49, says it feels like people in Hollywood are only now really starting to take notice. King, who won an Oscar last year for her performance in If Beale Street Could Talk and is receiving rave […]

How to make stories that matter when ‘white Hollywood does not write our culture’

Weeks before the Black Lives Matter protests broke out around the globe in the wake of the senseless killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery, inclusivity, the feeling of “otherness” and the struggle for an essential humanity were already on the minds of the eight actors gathered via video conference for The Envelope’s annual Drama […]