*Comedian Sherri Shepherd says she’s happy job offers continue to come in long after she left “The View.”
As reported by the New York Daily News, the Chicago native has a starring role as a school principal in the new Netflix series “Mr. Iglesias,” she hosts the Game Show Network’s “Best Ever Trivia Show,” and scored her first dramatic lead role on the feature “Brian Banks,” in theaters Aug. 9.
“There’s time when I’ve been unemployed, I just don’t put it on Instagram,” Shepherd told the Daily News. “I’m very thankful that the work still keeps coming in. I’m thankful to still be relevant, that people still like working with me.”
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Shepherd was recently in New York for the last stop of the “Ladies Night Out” comedy tour at Brooklyn’s Kings Theatre on Saturday. Hosted by “Real Housewives of Atlanta” star NeNe Leakes, Sherri was reportedly joined by comics Loni Love, Kym Whitley and Adele Givens.
“I’m excited about this. It’s just everything from a lady’s point of view,” Shepherd said. “So you got your clean to your raunchy to everything in between. That’s what I love. Loni brings it in and she’s dating a new man. I’m talking about all the trials and travails of being married and divorced twice. And NeNe spills the tea about ‘Real Housewives.'”
With a 20-plus-year career in comedy, Shepherd said of her routine: “It’s just evolving. Now I have a son who’s 14 who has turned into an alien, has taken my child and given me somebody that resembles my son. But this alien hates me and I have this teenager here that I don’t recognize anymore, who is now, everything I do he’s not impressed. I’m really talking about being the mother of a teenager and dealing with that while trying to date and also dealing with ex-husbands.”
Fans can next catch Sherri in the biopic “Brian Banks,” based on the true story about an NFL hopeful who was wrongly accused and convicted of rape and sent to prison. Shepherd stars as Brian’s mom, Leomia. Aldis Hodge stars as Brian, and Greg Kinnear plays Justin Brooks, the co-founder of the California Innocence Project, which helped free Banks from prison.
“Twelve years of his life were taken away because they just automatically believed somebody and didn’t do the due diligence,” Shepherd said. “And not only that, at 16 years old, they wouldn’t let him consult with his mother and forced him to make a decision that affected the rest of his life. So being able to play that woman who advocates for her child was something really special to me because I have to advocate for my son Jeffrey all the time.”
She added, “I’m so excited about this project because I had to fight really hard to even get an audition for this part because they wanted Viola Davis and then they kept mentioning Octavia [Spencer],” she said. “Then the name Jada [Pinkett Smith] came up and then the name Halle [Berry] came up.
“They didn’t want to see me because it’s very hard for comedic actresses to go over to the dramatic side. You need somebody that believes in you. For me it was [director] Tom Shadyac, who directed great films by Robin Williams, Jim Carrey. He believed in me and he gave me a chance.”
She describes the upcoming film as “a story of triumph and how you forgive and how you keep moving forward.”
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