Jada Pinkett-Smith has a star role in her her latest film that was released last Friday (Sept.12) called ‘The Women’. Did you go see it yet? The film is a remake of the 1939 George Cukor film, but has been modified slightly with Pinkett-Smith playing a lesbian character.

Jada Pinkett-Smith says she really enjoyed playing a lesbian. “I play a lesbian, which is fantastic, and I got to be in love with Eva Mendes, which is even more fantastic. Will was like, ‘Oh, I had her already. You can have my leftovers’. I love Eva. That’s my girl. We had a good time together. That was one of the reasons I wanted to do ‘The Women’. It was a first time female director. She had been working on this project for 13 years and it’s called ‘The Women’ and its an all-female cast, and I was like, ‘I have to do this’. It was just the statement alone” she expressed.

Jada talking about the move on the “Today Show”

About the Movie:

Directed by Diane English and based on the play by Clare Boothe Luce, ‘The Women’ tells the story of Mary Haines (Meg Ryan), a clothing designer who seems to have it all – a beautiful country home, a rich financier husband, an adorable 11-year-old daughter and a part-time career creating designs for her father’s venerable clothing company. Her best friend, Sylvie Fowler (Annette Bening), leads another enviable life – a happily single editor of a prominent fashion magazine, a possessor of a huge closet of designer clothes and a revered arbiter of taste and style poised on New York’s cutting edge. But when Mary’s husband enters into an affair with Crystal Allen (Eva Mendes), a sultry ’spritzer girl’ lurking behind the Saks Fifth Avenue perfume counter, all hell breaks loose. Mary and Sylvie’s relationship is tested to the breaking point while their tight-knit circle of friends, including mega-mommy Edie Cohen (Debra Messing) and lesbian author Alex Fisher (Jada Pinkett Smith), all start to question their own friendships and romantic relationships as well.

Do you think Jada is a good actress? Why doesn’t she get more roles?

source Black Voices