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Regina Hallis discussing how a major loss led her to where she is today.
TheNine Perfect Strangersstar, 50, recently opened up in her September cover interview forHealthabout how her father’s death when she was in her 20s forced her to rethink her future as a journalist and pursue her dreams of being an actress.
“It was his passing thatreally shifted how I looked at life—I realized how brief it can be and how suddenly it can change,” Hall explained. “That’s what led me to acting. The thing about feeling broken is that it forces you to be open—you feel like you don’t have much, so you don’t overthink everything.”
Her father Obie Hall, who was a contractor and electrician, died of a stroke while Regina was working toward her master’s degree at New York University. Sheultimately finished schoolin 1997, just as her dad wanted for her, before she transitioned into acting, according to theLos Angeles Times.
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When asked what drew her to the project, Regina toldHealth: “So many elements! I am a big fan ofNicole Kidman—I think she’s tremendous. And I’m a big fan of Melissa McCarthy. I think she’s amazing. Then, of course, I read the script and I realized it was a Liane Moriarty book. I had lovedBig Little Lies. Every time I read an episode I was like, ‘Wait, I want to know what happens in the next one.’ That’s always a good sign.”
She recently signed on to reunite with her costars from the 1999 filmThe Best Manand the 2013 sequelThe Best Man Holiday,for a Peacock limited series continuation, entitledThe Best Man: Final Chapters. Regina previouslyteased the possibility of a sequelto her 2017 comedyGirls Trip, in which she starred with Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett Smith andTiffany Haddish.
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“Certainly, the world could use a laugh,” Regina said onPEOPLE Nowin April 2020. “The girls and I, we talk, all of us talk. I don’t think it’s for lack of desire, I think it’s just us wanting to make sure, if we do a sequel, that it is something that could potentially, at least,strive to live up to the first one. So, I think it’s more about making sure it’s the right thing than it is about doing it.”
See Regina Hall inNine Perfect Strangers, which premieres August 18 on Hulu.
source: people.com
