Tika Sumpter received roles. She’s throughout our TV units, with appearances in Watson, Survival of the Thickest, season two, and Knuckles. However one character has been absent from our lives for a minute that she’d like to deliver again to TV: Candace Younger from Tyler Perry’s The Haves and the Have Nots.
“As a result of each episode is on Tubi now, folks be watching that factor,” Sumpter advised EBONY. “I believed at first folks would hate her, however they love her. And it’s so loopy as a result of when it first got here out generationally, it was like, ‘Oh, my mother and grandmother watch.’ Now these youngsters have gotten older and are watching and remembering.”
Sumpter already has a plan in movement to deliver her again to the display screen. “I did inform [series creator] Tyler Perry that possibly for Magnificence in Black, Candace comes again for a number of episodes,” she revealed with a chuckle.
“There may very well be a Candace 2.0; she received her diploma. She’s a lawyer now, one of many fiercest ones. Yeah, why not get in hassle along with her?”
We hope Perry is listening on this one.
The booked and busy actress—and mother to daughter Ella-Loren—has taken on one other position: creator. She’s penned a youngsters’s e-book titled I Obtained It from My Mama.
“It’s about slightly woman who’s admiring her mother on the highest within the highest methods with all these compliments of claiming, these are all of the issues that I wanna be like my mother about,” she advised EBONY. “It’s additionally about holding a mirror on the planet come again and notice, I additionally wanna be much more like myself.”
Over the previous eight years of Ella’s life, Sumpter has been capable of mirror on the type of mother she’s change into.
“Numerous the time on Instagram, we all the time see the curated a part of parenthood. I feel extra individuals are attempting to be trustworthy,” she stated, diving into one of many hardest elements of elevating one other human being. “It’s with the ability to admit if you’re alone, you are able to do issues actually rapidly, you don’t have someone else to consider. When you could have a child, that each one adjustments.”
Sumpter can see the consequences of this most when dealing with her personal emotions. “Whether or not it’s me getting offended and going to my room and shutting my door to not discuss to anyone, my daughter’s like, ‘Okay, I’m going to do the identical factor.’ The mirror is consistently held up in entrance of me. I’m studying that they comply with your actions and never simply what you say.”
The Sonic the Hedgehog star has additionally found she’s not as strict as she thought she’d be. “I’m extra of the mother who’s like, let her have it, prefer it’s not hurting her…she desires the ICEE. I do know it’s not the very best, however we’re not doing it on a regular basis. Let her style it, really feel it, have it.”
Although Sumpter loves simply hanging out on the sofa along with her daughter, she makes it clear that she is to not be thought of only a pal.
“She is aware of I’m her mother. She is aware of once I have a look at her a sure approach, it’s like, ‘Lady,’ and she or he’s like, ‘Oh, okay,’” she chuckled. “Don’t get me blended up.”
With all of the issues she’s realized about motherhood, Sumpter, who revealed her struggles with miscarriages and IVF on Tamron Corridor, has some ideas on making the method simpler for girls attempting to conceive.
“What I want may occur with IVF is that there may very well be some type of federal funding to assist folks with that value as a result of it is extremely costly,” she declared. “If it doesn’t work the primary time, which typically it doesn’t, prefer it didn’t for me, you must preserve doing it. So, I feel that might assist implement no matter baby-making is required, particularly in our group.”
I Obtained It From My Mama is out there on Amazon.