Regina Hall
Ever since Regina Hall showed up on screen as the hilarious, sex-craven Brenda in\xa0Scary Movie, she\u2019s never had to worry about getting work. But what she did struggle with was getting the right\xa0kind\xa0of work, especially after discovering the flip side to success\u2014typecasting.\xa0\u201cI wanted great parts and interesting work. And as a woman, a\xa0black\xa0woman, I wondered if that was even possible.\u201d\n\nDespite her concerns about a career ceiling, she continued to push for roles that were more nuanced, and less broad. Luckily, she had a thick skin, honed by growing up with three brothers, which prepared her for the ups and downs of the industry.\n\nWhile many female actors fear getting older in a business that values youth, Regina, now in her late-40s, is discovering that her career is blossoming with age. In the past two years, she\u2019s been in the massively successful\xa0Girls Trip, has won multiple awards for her role in the outstanding independent film\xa0Support the Girls, and is now playing her self-proclaimed dream role in Showtime\u2019s\xa0Black Monday, opposite Don Cheadle.\n\nRegina joins\xa0Off Camera\xa0to talk about her earliest (and wildest) career ambitions, how her father\u2019s unexpected death jump started her acting career, and why becoming a nun is a lot harder than one might think.