Lela Rochon

thumb Lela Rochon Fuqua (née Staples; April 17, 1964) is an American actress. She is best known for her starring role as Robin Stokes in the 1995 romantic drama film Waiting to Exhale. Quotes I didn’t read the book. I wasn’t a fan of the idea of playing a maid I didn’t really get it. I was like, ‘eh ok, I’m not really interested in that.' Sometimes you read a script and you just don’t know what it’s going to be I remember reading The Matrix — it’s techno-babble, it’s scientific, I don’t even understand what I’m reading. "Why Lela Rochon Threw Away the Script for ‘The Help’" Well, thank you. Thank you. I think going back to your question, it’s a lot of politics involved with pictures now because you have a lot of male stars. And then it kind of became a thing in the early 2000s where they were forced to have, you know, non-Black female leads as co-stars. They became other races and other things. They take the big African American movie star and put him with a Latino girl, white girl, you know, and those roles kind of went like that, which is unfortunate, you know Well, I took this role because I read it and I couldn’t believe it was written for a woman and a Black woman because this character could be a man. And I was watching other women who were in sports You know, I love Your Honor. I love the character Mo on that. I loved Griselda with Sofia Vergara. There are a lot of like female gangster characters that I was seeing. And I didn’t feel like I had seen one that I could do. And when they called me and they sent me that script, I said, oh, my God, I love her. This is a stretch. This is challenging. This is something I haven’t done before. You know, it’s just like riding a bike. You don’t forget. And then you do, you know, you get to see a lot of different sides to that coin. You see why some people really weren’t that successful and why others weren’t. It’s all about your discipline, your habits. Do you know your lines? Can you, you know, are you prepared? and, you know, there are a lot of young people who don’t study anymore. And I would say, you know, if they admire the 90s, they should admire the work ethic because we really worked hard. And this show was something where, oh, my God, we worked hard. It’s eight episodes, and it’s shot, you know, very quickly, within a few months, and it’s a lot every day. And… "Reflecting on History – LeLa Rochon", March 7, 2025 External links 0005375 Category:1964 births Category:Living people Category:Actresses from Los Angeles Category:Actresses from Arkansas Category:Women from the United States Category:Women born in the 1960s