Nia Long Does HoneyMag!

HoneyMag.com: Love Jones is my all time favorite movie! Any chance we die-hard fans can get a sequel to Nina and Darius?
Nia Long: They’ve talked about doing a sequel several times, but it always seemed like the script didn’t do the first Love Jones justice. It’s such a classic movie. I get people on a daily basis that stop me about Love Jones. Unless the script was really excellent and serviced the first movie, I don’t think Larenz or I would want to do it. Sequels are great because the audience is familiar with the characters, but if you mess up a movie by doing a sequel that is not even up to par, then it can be damaging. Some things are better left alone unless you can find something to support what’s already happened.

As an incredibly sexy woman, have you been able to defy being cast as a sexy role?
I think that there is a part of me that is type cast as the “girl” or “pretty woman,” those things are very real and present in my career. Michelle Pfieffer said in an interview, “Beauty is a blessing and a curse.” I never wake up in the morning and say, “Oh my God! I am just the most gorgeous woman on the planet!” I feel that I’m attractive, but I don’t go around feeling myself on some glamourous, beautiful, perfect woman thing. What I would like for myself is to get roles that are more dramatic because that’s where I started. The dramatic roles that I have auditioned for, that I have tried to fight for, I’ll always get told that I’m too pretty or that a woman struggling wouldn’t look like me. That’s unfortunate because any tragedy that’s going to happen, doesn’t happen because you’re pretty or not pretty. It happens because that’s just part of life. I also know what my own life has been like. It hasn’t always been easy. So, when I get these scripts, the characters are so interesting, dark and gritty and I’m like, “Wow, I would love to play a role like that.” Every single time, I just get shut down, but I think that it’s a matter of me trying to persevere in that area. I try to keep moving because it will eventually happen.

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