It's been over two years since we last watched a new episode of tranceAnd while fans are eagerly awaiting Season 3, so too is cast member Nica King – albeit for her own very personal reasons.
“do not ask me [when Season 3 is coming out]. I don't fucking know. “Don't ask me, I don't know,” she said during a recent stand-up performance, in a clip released to her. Tik Tok Account on Sunday. “People say, 'We need a third season,' and I say, 'Bitch,' I Need season 3! “I haven't paid rent for six months.”
In the first two seasons of the HBO series, King played Leslie Bennett, the mother of Zendaya's character, Rue. King joked that Zendaya, who is currently promoting her new movie Sand Dunes: Part Twowas pausing the third season of the show.
“And Zendaya's over in Paris at Fashion Week. I'm like, 'Bitch, go home!' I need you. Mama needs you.”
King also admitted on stage that she expected to book more acting jobs after becoming part of the Emmy Award-winning series, but that was not the case.
“I haven't booked anything since trance. “This is some bullshit,” King said. “I thought my career was on the rise after that trance. I thought I was good. It doesn't work that way.”
“I called Taraji, and she was like, ‘Bitch, get on that,’” King concluded, referring to Taraji P. Henson, who tearfully admitted last year that she was considering quitting acting because of the unfair treatment she and other black women faced. Received in Hollywood. the empire The actress said at the time: “I'm tired of working hard, being generous with what I do, and getting paid a fraction of the cost. I'm tired of hearing my sisters say the same thing over and over again. You're tired.”
The Daily Beast has reached out to King for comment.
Despite her comedic take on the situation, King has said in the past that playing Leslie, the mother of an addict, is close to her heart because of her childhood.
“For me, home was not a safe place.” She said Last year at a mental health and recovery event at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia. The actress explained that she grew up with a mother who suffered from drug abuse, and that she was “born to play this role.”
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