“People’s thinking was not very inclusive.
“I was fired from a pilot because the producer told me I was ‘not Black enough.’
Those were his words.
Sheryl Lee Ralph stars in the ABC sitcom Abbott Elementary.MICHAEL TRAN/AFP via Getty Images
I can still remember the way I felt.”
the 65-year-old said onThe Viewin March.
He asked, “‘Do I put you in a movie with Tom Cruise?
Who goes to seethatmovie?'”
Read Ralph’s full PEOPLE interviewhere.
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