In InHerShoes, Lindsay Peoples Wagner talks with actor, podcaster, reality-TV star, author, and model Garcelle Beauvais about her entry into Hollywood and being the first Black woman on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills
Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photos: Getty Images In the latest installment of “In Her Shoes” on The Cut podcast, the Cut editor-in-chief Lindsay Peoples Wagner talks with actor, podcaster, reality-TV star, author, and model Garcelle Beauvais. Beauvais, one of the newest members of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, hosts the Webby Award–winning podcast Going to Bed With Garcelle and will publish her memoir, Love Me As I Am, in April 2022.
GB: I was born in Haiti. We’re Haitian through and through. My mom decided that she wanted to give us a better opportunity and bring us to the States, so she left me at 5 and a half, almost 6, to come to the United States by herself. She left me with my sisters to provide a better opportunity and come to America.
LPW: I have to tell you full stop, that is my favorite movie in the world. I watch Coming to America all the time. I think it is the most hilarious, heartwarming movie on the planet. LPW: Let’s talk about some of your other roles. Jamie Foxx Show — also incredibly iconic. You were in Spider-Man. What has been a role that you’re especially fond of looking back on, and what’s the dream role that you want to do in the future?
GB: It’s hard. We put a lot of hats on as women, and we can do most of it. Sometimes some things fall through the cracks, and you gotta let that go. But what I try to do — which is getting harder because there’s a lot of moving parts now with my life — but when I’m on The Real, I just want to be on The Real and focus on that. When I’m doing Housewives, I want to focus on that. And I think that’s the only way I can do it because otherwise, it gets too hard. Then children.
GB: I do, too. I feel like this is my take of me on the show. I’m hired to give my point of view, and I hope that point of view starts a conversation. So it’s not about attacking other people; it’s just my point of view, right? But I also feel like for us, I love the fact that women are thinking differently now. I remember Tiffany Haddish said she doesn’t want her man to give her a ring. She wants him to buy her a building as an engagement present.
Then the other conversations about some of the women — or one particular woman — didn’t want to have the race talk with her children because they were so young, and that was such a hard topic. I said, “Well, I’m glad you have that privilege. I don’t have that privilege. As soon as my kids were three, I had to have a conversation with them.” So it was great that we were able to have those conversations, although some people felt like, This is not why we watch the show.
GB: Totally the same way you’re describing it. I felt like I had to carry the weight, the conversations. Even when that whole thing with Erika happened when I asked her that question that she had said she didn’t want to talk about, and I didn’t know and I wasn’t told. I don’t know if they’ll ever show the scene with breaking the fourth wall, but I felt like no one had my back. Even though Crystal was saying, “Garcelle wasn’t there, Garcelle wasn’t there,” everybody glossed over that.
GB: It’s so crazy. The fact of knowing someone — even though I don’t know Erika as well as some of them, of course — you feel for someone going through that. But at the same time, they believed her straight out. At the first reunion, when Kyle said about the $5,000, everybody was just kind of like, Girl … GB: No, but they’re strictly going on that they’ve been friends with her for five, six years.
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