Danielle Pinnock (bodycourage) discusses the importance of creating her own content, Black creatives who inspire her the most, and why lizzo should guest star on GhostsCBS.
. She was my greatest inspiration coming into the industry and showed me that as a Caribbean person, you can be in the arts. They did a race reversal ofwhere she actually got to play Desdemona against Patrick Stewart. That was the first play I ever saw in my life, and I was like, “That’s what I want to do.”Honestly, Mark could be a ghost. Mark could be Sam’s father, which I’m kind of campaigning for. Mark could also be… Mark.
Growing up, I had comedians all around me who didn’t know they were comedians. My grandmother, Una, and my mom, Joan, are probably the funniest human beings on the planet. My mom is also my greatest inspiration. She speaks four languages, she’s an immigration attorney—and I used to be my mom’s receptionist. Can you imagine an 11-year-old girl answering the phone, talking about immigration issues?
My whole life is comedy: [The story of] my husband and I, and how we ended up getting married. I thought I was going to England to meet Idris Elba—I met Ed Sheeran instead. [] When I tell people these stories, they’re like, “That’s a show!” So that’s what I’ve been working on during the pandemic—getting all of these things to paper. One day, they could be on your TV and movie screens., you’re developing and producing an adult animated series , a web series , and your own pop-culture sketches.
It’s been a necessity to create my own content, because no one was writing for me—plus, it gives me the freedom to just play. I never want to lose my imagination, and that really goes back to my theater roots., which was a one-woman documentary play. I interviewed over 300 people from around the world about how they felt about their bodies. I was always getting these very stereotypical roles and I wanted to show, at least the theater industry, that I could be more than that.
A lot of times, creating my own work is also creating my own legacy. I want to talk about my Caribbean heritage, because when people talk about Caribbean heritage in America, we’re just drug-dealing psychics who bobsled. [] I want to tell the stories about finding love as a plus-size woman in the entertainment industry to somebody that I did not expect to find love with.
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