I agree that the well-decorated apartments and designer duds were out of sync with the incomes of the characters, but it was fun. Also interesting about the characters in the context of their upscale lives were their eating habits. They were constantly noshing on high-fat snacks, never expressing concern about gaining weight. Imagine Monica in Friends being that carefree about food. In the end, these were humorous young people engaged in active social lives during the early days of their careers.
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The Rise of Will Smith. Add Image S5, Ep5. Max's former law school professor and mentor, Clayton Simmons, comes to town for a lecture. Max has always had a crush on him and plans to make a move. Khadijah confesses to Synclaire that she once spent the night with Clayton and can't bring herself to tell Max. Regine throws out Tripp's date after she wears Regine's robe and uses her bubble bath. Tripp gets back at Regine by not showering and purposely stinking up her party after she cut his soap-on-a-rope.
Add Image S5, Ep6. Synclaire and Overton bring home a pile of classic records from the '60s and it gets the gang singing and dancing. Khadijah tries to get some work done and is annoyed by the loud music so she goes to the hallway, but she ends up falling asleep and dreaming she is in an old school singing group called the Flavorettes. Add Image S5, Ep7.
Regine interviews to be an event coordinator for a charity event. She quickly realizes the budget is much less than she hoped and must cut corners. Max has not given Overton and Synclaire a wedding gift so she gives them a blank check, they have a hard time coming up with an amount.
Add Image S5, Ep8. While traveling to a football game, Overton, Tripp, and Russell pick up a hitchhiker. She turns out to be wanted for robbery. Dexter asks Regine to move in with him and she accepts, but needs help from Khadijah on how to break it to her mom. Add Image S5, Ep9. A strange client helps Max believe in her ability to practice law.
Add Image S5, Ep Synclaire auditions for a play only to realize all the female roles are taken. She dresses like a man and assumes the identity of James "Jimmy" Overton and wins over the directors. Overton is distressed by the fact that Synclaire has to keep up the appearance of Jimmy and he can't be affectionate towards her in public. Khadijah helps Tripp with a jingle and thinks she has what it takes to be a jingle writer.
Khadijah keeps dreaming of kissing Scooter in a hot tub. I think in the pilot you can actually hear I had a little bit of flair because [he] was one of my favorite comics and we were all working on the road all the time and I had a little bit of Steve Harvey country.
Coles: Yvette and I sat down, Latifah and I sat down. I was very much involved in the creation of this character. Yvette tells people the characters are all based on her, and I think that we all brought ourselves to it. So we sat around the table and came up with it and then Synclaire was born! Williams: It was virtually my first job and what was interesting and rare and great is that it was a percent positive character.
So I think it really set a beautiful tone to start a career as an African American. And so [ Living Single ] was such a great start. Scooter and Khadijah nursed a longtime friendship turned relationship, even amid professional duties that kept them away from one another. Overton and Synclaire took their sweet time getting together even though they were both clearly smitten with each other.
Kyle and Max both loathed and loved one another. Synclaire and Overton was there from the pilot. He had a long plan. Those were all things that were, again, very structured. The show traced the contours of black love in all its forms: platonic, romantic, sexual. The characters had both flings and long-term relationships. Coles: I knew that the plan was for these two characters [Synclaire and Overton] to eventually become a couple.
I remember there was an article that was written that said we were an Emmy-worthy couple, an Emmy-worthy image. And not just people of color. He and [Carson] were our protectors whenever we went and did things together, so they already acted as our protectors and lovers of women. It was fun and it was easy. And he brought his whole self to it in a way that was really sweet. It never felt lecherous or weird.
It just felt natural and people loved them. We grew up together and towards each other, so it all worked out. It was well-written. I remember the audience just going crazy when Overton finally got a kiss from Synclaire because we had been waiting for this forever, you know?
And the audience just went berserk and it was just like, that was a good kiss too, so we sold that. They were friends who turned into a romance, which I think is always the best thing.
She grew up without a dad, she is from the hood. And the things that she wants different for her life as an adult. And again, I understood that. She lived through her realities, dealt with them, and she still was able to get her fairytale. Carson: There was a love [Kyle] had for all the women on the show, all of his sisters that he really did—I think the fact that Maxine challenged him the most was the thing that he liked. Honor, of some type. And an honesty to a fault, because they were honest with each other, and yet the passion and the lust was there.
Right on. When we were filming that, you could feel the anticipation in the warehouse, in the studio. We felt it. And so, we knew there would be looong laughs, and there were. People just broke out laughing. They had been anticipating [it] the whole time. It was a very well-written episode. But even the whole kente cloth thing—being wrapped in his stupid blanket. It makes me laugh, because it was so T. O n the Living Single set , T.
Carson did have a bit of a reputation for bringing his distinct, Afrocentric flair to everything Kyle Barker did, said, and—most importantly—wore. He was always open to mixing patterns and doing a lot of the Afrocentric fabrics, you know, the mudcloth. He was really down for that. Sometimes I would take the mudcloth and be like, Oooh T.
Oh, that would be faaahbulous. It was and remains an impressive feat. Whoopi Goldberg, who was known for being funny and kind of flat. I was in New York. They saw somebody walking by and they said, Y ou wanna shave your hair off?
I said, Sure. And she put in these new things she had created, literally just created, called Nu-Locs. And Nu-Locs were interesting because it was made out of yarn. My hairstyle was made out of knitting yarn.
And the older it got, the more it looked like locs. I kind of just stomped around and made it part of it. You clomped across the stage like you had just got off a horse. And she sent me to modeling school, a modeling school called Black Glamour, where I actually won the best walker and went to John Robert Powers modeling school and won their best walker. But just because I could do it on a runway did not mean I could do it in real life, certainly not while acting. Alexander: Me and Latifah were the hardest to get to wardrobe.
We just never really wanted to do it. That or hair and makeup. You put our hair and makeup on and we just went. But it was those coats, capes—it was things that, there was flourish. Anything that could move was great. Obviously the tailored part of it was great because I myself am very casual. But Max was a corporate chick. I spent my whole life in theaters, and just being dressed up.
So that was work. The character would suddenly come alive. But it was a lot of cool sayings and anything that was cool that was pro-Black, you know, that was what the show was about so I would definitely wear.
It was baggies we were in. So now being in an environment where I was a contributor to the craft of creating a character, it was fantastic. Regine was a great character if you loved clothes. And one of the reasons she was so much fun to play is because she was the exact opposite of me.
Ceci: Regine was a fashionista, sassy. She was also sexy, but she was always experimental. She was the Vogue of all the girls, she was the fashion plate. And heavily accessorized. She would always have the hat and the gloves and the jewelry. She was always head to toe on point, regardless. They took like a bustier and they covered it, so my chest was able to have coverage and lift, if you will [laughs] , and then the bustier because of the corset part was able to cinch me in, but they covered it in a really fun Hawaiian print kind of thing and then they did cutouts at the stomach area because my stomach was flat enough where I could do that and not feel self-conscious.
I just felt like they really worked at making sure that, again, I was comfortable, I was confident. When she wore a suit, it was always balanced [because] when she got home sometimes, she would just wear a jersey and some jeans. She had a life, and when she got home, she was chill like we all are. That was a lot of fun!
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