Sanaa Lathan
Sanaa Lathan
Sanaa McCoy Lathanis an American actress and voice actress. She has starred in many films, including the box-office hit The Best Man and its 2013 sequel, Love & Basketball, Brown Sugar, Alien vs. Predator and The Family That Preys. Lathan was nominated for a Tony Award for her performance on Broadway in A Raisin in the Sun. From 2009 to 2013, she voiced Donna Tubbs in The Cleveland Show. In 2010, she starred in the all-black performance of Cat on...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth19 September 1971
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
I wouldn't want anyone to destroy the earth
I got nominated for a Tony, which was a complete surprise. It was an experience that I will always cherish
I'll eventually go back to theater because the feeling of being on stage where you have the audience right there, you can't replace that with anything
The inspiration for this movie [Something New] was this Newsweek article that came out a couple of years ago that talks about 42.4 percent of black women in America aren't married. Black women are shooting up the corporate ladder way faster than our black male counterparts. And (black men) are either dating outside their race, in jail or dying. And so if you want to have a family, you want to be married, you have to look at other options.
The Alien is gross, scary. There is something in a human being that looks at them and sees it as a cockroach. You can never feel nurturing towards the cockroach.
There's a lot of Kenya that's not like me. I like Birkenstocks, granola, my dog Pops.
People make jokes about how black people are the first ones to be killed off.
I didn't get to see Predator until halfway through shooting. It was great to get an education while I was shooting because it made me excited to be part of this legacy.
I had never picked up a basketball before. I went through a grueling audition process. It was almost as if I was learning to walk. It would be like teaching somebody to dance ballet for a role.
When you have a play, you have to be on every night.
When you're on a set it can be very tedious and slow. It's just not as big as when you see it on film.
Chemistry on film is like chemistry in real life, it's either there or it isn't.
I don't know if it's more acceptable or if black men are more comfortable. Black men certainly are more comfortable with it. I don't know that society, like white society loves it or black women. When you see a black man with a white woman there is a feeling that you have and I think the feeling is an instinctual feeling of you want her you don't want me. I don't look anything like her, so you don't like. You know what I mean? Something like that. It's a real instinctual primal thing.
The great thing about the stage is that you have a structured month-long rehearsal period where you're going in every day. You have to have lots of run-throughs with theater because there are no second takes in front of a live audience.