Tracie Thoms

thumb Tracie Thoms is an American actress and singer. She is known for her roles in Rent, Cold Case, The Devil Wears Prada, Death Proof, the Fox television series Wonderfalls. Quotes I grew up loving horror movies. Carrie and Amityville Horror scared the mess out of me, but other than that I loved them. I loved the Friday the 13th franchise. I think Halloween is my favorite horror movie of all time. But I also love Evil Dead. I always wanted to do a horror movie, and now I can say I’ve done one, and with Quentin Tarantino no less. I hope audiences will see this as a thrill ride; we’re not trying to solve any world problems, it’s not very deep, it’s just really fun and an homage to old-school movies. It’s a gore-fest, but its over-the-top cartoony gore. It really is. His energy comes from the fact that he really loves what he does. You want to do the best job that you can for him. He inspires everyone from the grip to the lead actor to do their best every day. It’s refreshing. It’s all about finding the truth of every situation and telling it. There’s the question of style: how big do you want to be or how dirty do you want to be. It was a lot of fun. With each project I get more and more freedom. Devil Wears Prada was a lot of adlibbing. It didn’t feel like acting, it was hanging out on set with cool people. This had the same kind of camaraderie feel; I’ve been really lucky because all my projects have been really fun. I’ve had a great group of people to work with. It’s hard to figure out what was my favorite part. He sent me to stunt school to learn how to drive really badass. Perhaps hanging out on set; the whole atmosphere. Quentin makes it really fun to come to work every day. We played music in between setups and nobody went back to their trailers, we’d just hang out on set and goof off, and have singing contests. The whole experience was so much fun. Interview: Tracie Thoms from “Grindhouse” External links Category:Women singers from the United States Category:Actresses from Baltimore Category:Living people Category:African Americans