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Would you be interested in revisiting Family Matters if a reboot was offered and coming back on board? Why are they taking so long to bring it back? I don't know why they are taking their time- people have asked me that. It's probably because they are waiting to see the success of the other reboots and then we will probably go ahead. I'm assuming it's coming.
I would certainly have no problem coming on back and seeing how the characters are portrayed today as they are older and the kids are all grown up now Do you keep in touch with a lot of your Family Matters co-stars? Were you all close? Working with Jo Marie was great because it was like Carl and Harriet were back in action again! We even thought while we were filming that we would love to have our own little Harriet and Carl spin-off and have our characters have their own little bed and breakfast when their kids grow up and move out of the house. When you spend seasons with a cast, they become like your family and we were all very close.
We went through births, deaths, marriages. I do miss them. I don't see Urkel Jaleel White as much because he's so busy. But I do miss all of them like they are my family. Family Matters doesn't get enough credit for how groundbreaking it was in subject matter. The Cosby's and The Bank's were both wealthy and the Winslow's were more relatable.
Talk about its premise a bit and what it meant to television. Well, I would refuse to take all the credit on "groundbreaking"- I hold so much of the popularity of Family Matters on the success great shows that have paved the way before us like Good Times and What's Happening? I think it really goes back to that idea of the family structure and how it shows good values in a family, especially an African American family, and there just isn't a lot of that portrayed on TV today and we need that- it's so important it gets viewed in that light. The millennials needs to see how important this family structure and moral responsibility is because a lot of them aren't getting it.
And, again, it's really important to feature these family values in black families on television. So I would hate to use the word "groundbreaking"- the word I would use for Family Matters would be "necessary. Your character was a police officer- a role that you've played before in films like Die Hard and Turner and Hooch. Being cast as a black police officer was extremely pertinent when Family Matters started as the times were similar to now with a lot of racial tensions.
Your character really helped unify the country and gave people hope as you are really seen as such an honest person- which is perhaps why you keep getting cast in police officer roles; you are in fact the worlds dream cop. Talk about playing a cop and how Carl Winslow would be good to have on TV again. Well, I never in my life thought that I would be the symbol of what a good cop should be. I am an honest person- I've always tried to be an honest person and a good person- that's just who I am. This role was a unique opportunity because I had no background on it, I never had any law enforcement people in my family or anything.
But I think Carl is a great character because he was a person who found himself in a very difficult situation and he had to deliver. I didn't realize that it would make such an impact to the point that real cops come up to me and thank me for portraying their job in a good light. I couldn't be a police officer. It's a very difficult job to put your life in the face of danger for someone else and that is extremely selfless.
To now vilify cops is not really the way I think it should be looked at. Black lives certainly do matter- that's one thing. But, it's just that In every profession there are bad, as well as there are good.
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I think it's wrong to make cops- or any group- out to be the enemy based on a generalization. Stigmas and generalizations about groups are what get this world into such turmoil. I think there's good in everything and everybody. How is he actually similar to the Winslows?
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