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“Black-ish” is a bonafide hit. And of course, it’s in a large part due to the writers and show creator Kenya Barris. But it’s also due to the actors who bring their words to life. Tracee Ellis Ross is a part of that success. But according to a recent interview she did with the Hollywood Reporter, she almost didn’t sign on because of her current tv husband, Anthony Anderson.
Ellis Ross told The Hollywood Reporter, “I did not like Anthony,” she said. “I had worked with him in the past. I thought he was an a**hole. If you know Anthony, he has a gruff exterior, and he does not have an inner-governor, and Anthony says stuff that is not that appropriate all the time. Like, everybody knows it’s part of why he’s funny, it’s part of the ace in his deck, but it’s also, like, ‘Oh, my God.’ And if you don’t know him, it can come across rudely.”
But it wasn’t just because he was talking crazy. She said that the two had a couple of interactions that rubbed her the wrong way.
“He said some things to me in the past that I did not like, and I didn’t like him. But I knew Kenya [Barris] and I knew all the other people involved, and I was like, ‘I will go in.'”
But shortly after she walked on to set, she realized that things were going to be alright.
“From the moment I walked in to that audition, I was like, ‘Oh, there’s magic here. Like, magic. I will tell you, I was wrong — or not that ‘I was wrong,’ but I have a different experience of him now. He is one of my absolutely favorite people. I love working with that man so much.”
