[INTERVIEW] Golden Brooks Shares Real Issue With Reality Stars in Hollywood

are taken out of context and people are made to be outlandish. It’s like how many hits do you have on Twitter, how many likes do you have, are you trending. That seems to be a theme in a lot of the casting process now a days. It’s frustrating. When I started it was about the training, I took the subway to acting class, I went to college. I’m not saying every reality star is not an artist, they are just puppets. The business is the puppeteer, the business is changing and social media has something to do that.

theJasmineBRAND.com: You being trained, going up the ladder and through the ranks, and someone coming through from middle America, how do you feel about that?

Golden Brooks: It’s not that little girl’s fault. It’s the business, they pump these people up on a superficial level and what that does it creates a false sense of what art is. It becomes about something other than the craft—I get it’s a business but we have to remember why we got into this—not to trend on social media, but really, truly be an artist.

theJasmineBRAND.com: We’ve seen your daughter, will we see her on the show?

Golden Brooks: She’s on the show one episode. I want to keep her privacy hers, it’s important to show her to show my inside life that I’m a mother, but I want to preserve her anonymity.

theJasmineBRAND.com: What was the most shocking thing about stepping into the reality world?

Golden Brooks: It’s really changing the way you think. I wouldn’t have done just any reality show. I was definitely very picky when I chose this show to come on. Carlos King, I trust him, he has a very good track record but I also think this is a show that allows us to explore all these other sides to us.

theJasmineBRAND.com: What are we going to learn about you through this show?

Golden Brooks: You are going to learn that I am incredibly passionate about my black women. I’m incredibly passionate about how women are portrayed about my craft. I am no nonsense when it comes to people who come in try to get in the business because they were on a reality show.

theJasmineBRAND.com: During filming, what’s one thing you learned about yourself?

Golden Brooks: I learned that I’m not as secure as I thought I was. I shouldn’t hold my value system so close that it prevents me from allowing people in.

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