![]() Spring Baking Championship The judges give an eliminated baker a second chance, then Molly Yeh challenges them to make desserts that feature candy. CBSĪmerican Song Contest The live qualifiers conclude and the three performers from the previous week who made it to the next round are announced. What did you think of Monday’s Bob Hearts Abishola? Drop a comment with your full review.The Neighborhood When Dave’s (Max Greenfield) job requires him to mediate a feud between two wealthy brothers, Calvin (Cedric the Entertainer) tries to help. In the case of Morenike, she says, “we just wanted to introduce a character that you fall in love with, then eventually feel empathy for because she’s such a wonderful character.” ![]() We’re not trying to force a point of view on you, we’re just telling our stories.” “It’s great to be able to change hearts and minds, but not do it in a way where we’re beating you down. “It has always been important to me to tell true stories that make people think,” she says. It’s about giving viewers something to reflect on even after the episode has ended. Just getting her to the point where she accepts me and accepts my partner, that is good enough for me.”Īt the end of the day, it’s important to Yashere that audiences be exposed to different perspectives, whether or not they necessarily agree with them. Now she does, but she’s not going to gay pride events with me or anything like that. “It took her a while to accept me for who I actually am. “When I came out to my mom, there were difficulties,” the EP recalls. “I wanted to dig deeper into the Nigerian attitudes, and how you can come to a different form of acceptance without necessarily having to come 100 percent all the way. “When we were writing, I didn’t want to make it like an after-school special,” Yashere explains. They still haven’t accepted her sexuality outright, but that’s not how Yashere wanted to end the story. She was doing what she thought was best.”Ībishola and Kemi eventually confront Morenike and express their support for her. It’ll be easier on your life,’ so it wasn’t coming from a place of hatred it was coming from a place of love. A lot of people think they’re protecting gay people by saying, ‘Just stay in the closet. We also wanted to show that even though what Abishola is doing is 100 percent wrong, she is trying to protect Morenike. “We wanted to make it real, but we also didn’t want to turn the audience against Abishola,” Yashere stresses. It’s why Abishola initially encourages her cousin to keep her sexuality to herself. Unfortunately when they left, they left the worst parts of Christianity behind, and we took it and ran with it.”Īs such, Kemi and Abishola know exactly how their elders will respond to Morenike if she decides to come out of the closet. “Nigerians originally judged people by their spirits, rather than their gender or their sexuality, so that definitely came when the Brits came and forced Christianity on the Nigerians. “It’s a construct when Christians came to Nigeria,” Yashere explains. “You’ve got people even who are still living in the closet - politicians being caught all the time indulging, because they’ve been living in the closet because they feel they have to hide who they are to appeal to some right-wing rhetoric - so it’s a story that plays out wherever you are in the world, not just in Nigeria.”īut in this particular case, the way Kemi and Abishola respond to Morenike’s secret most certainly stems from the prejudice they were exposed to in their native land. ![]() “In America, homophobia and transphobia are causing a lot of people to be attacked violently, and to be thrown out of their families,” Yashere points out. ![]() Of course, homophobia is by no means exclusive to Nigeria. “I’m lucky I was born outside of Nigeria, so I haven’t had the same struggles that my gay brothers and sisters have had within Nigeria, and the problems that they’re having: being arrested all the time, being harassed when they go out being thrown out of their families.” “Because I’m gay and my family is Nigerian, I know what it’s like,” Yashere says. 'B Positive' Romance Poll: Drew and Gina - Yea or Nay? 'Bob Hearts Abishola': Gina Yashere on Being Her Authentic Nigerian Self Before Hollywood Thought It Was Cool At one point, Kemi and Abishola explain to Gloria that being gay is not only unaccepted in Nigeria, it’s against the law. When Abishola’s niece reveals to Kemi that she’s not a threat to her relationship with Chukwuemeka because she’s a lesbian, Yashere’s character doesn’t know how to respond.
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