Meet ‘Best Man’s’ Jamilah Rosemond: Her Career Blowing Up & She Found Love | EURwebExclusive

*Jamilah Rosemond is young gifted and Black  She plays Keisha in Peacock’s “Best Man The Final Chapters,” the daughter of Candace (Regina Hall) and Murch (Harold Perrineau).

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“It’s been such an amazing experience,” Jamilah shares with iHeartradio and EURweb Spotlight host Jazmyn Summers. “Regina Hall has always been such an inspiration to me. So the fact that I’m playing her daughter is just like a dream come true. Malcolm D. Lee created it in the nineties when there wasn’t a lot of variety of stories that were being told about Black people.”

She adds: “We were always shown in a stereotypical way either the hood or the very uppity Black. He wanted to tell the story of him and his college friends. I think it did so well and is doing so well because so many people can see themselves in it.  It shows the complexities of Black people.”

Jamilah said they had maaaad fun on the set together even though the lead actors are now in their 50s, and Harold is pushing 60.

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“Harold Perrineau, he’s super funny, down to earth.  Terrence Howard is hilarious.  There was this TikTok that Taye Diggs, Harold Perrineau, myself, and Samantha Smith, who plays my sister, did. We were rehearsing and Taye Diggs  just pushed us out of the camera and posted it on my TikTok. He was like,I don’t even need y’all up in here. It was so funny. ”

The post went viral.

Jamilah is also an activist and recently organized a Black Lives Matter cultural protest.

“I grew up in a predominantly white town.   I wanted to create an event where different Black voices from my community could speak up in whatever way they wanted to. So some people danced, some people played an original song, and some people did spoken word,  I think culture is a very powerful to get the message across to people. Because why do you think people watch movies and TV?”

She also created a blog “Girls with Beauty and Brains” that celebrates young women, particularly of color.

“It’s about empowerment, networking with different women, and how we can stick together and come up together,” Jamilah explains. “Society is always pitting women against each other and they make it seem like there’s not enough room for multiple women at the table. I’m trying to dismantle that.  I interview women and girls in different career fields to talk about how they became successful and share those tools and resources with other young women who want to do the same thing.”

 

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She resists the pressure to adhere to one standard of beauty that pressures many young women who feel like they have to get plastic surgery to be beautiful.

“Everything about society’s beauty standards is a trend,” she opines.”Things come and go.  It’s important to truly work on loving who you are and not trying to keep up with the trends.  Now the Brazilian butt lift is in and some days it’s like, oh, no,  you got to have it but these trends, come and go and if you keep trying to chase them, you’re never going to be fully comfortable with yourself. I’ve already seen on TikTok more women not having like a huge bubble (butt). The natural body is amazing and more people are beginning to realize that.”

Jamilah’s parents hail from Haiti and while she’s never been there she feels a passion for the Haitian struggle.

“Haiti is like the first Black nation to win their freedom and it is rich in resources.  But it is continuously oppressed and it hurts my heart. We’re so quick to support Ukraine in the Russian situation. But they can’t jump into supporting other countries, specifically Black,” she says.

My girl is glowing though not just because of her new career moves but some new boo thang moves too.

“I was all for meeting someone in person feeling like I just want to bump into my person. That did not happen. I downloaded Hinge and within the first three months I got lucky.  I found my boyfriend. He’s from Italy. He’s in science. He’s applying to go to med school so like a whole different world from mine.   But we fit. No competition, no constantly talking about acting. He loves soccer. And so he’s constantly teaching me about soccer. I’m teaching him about the show biz. It’s really like honest and truthful and its exciting getting to know about each other’s cultures.”

OK, I’m signing up.

What’s next for Jamilah is a starring role in a production by Michelle and Barack Obama.  You can’t get any producers with more juice than that.

“It’s a biopic about Bayard Rustin,” reveals Jamilah. “He led the march on Washington along with Dr. Martin Luther King but not a lot of people know who he is because he was a gay Black man during the civil rights movement. It’s great that we’re spreading some light on him and his story. I play Doreen Ladner.  She’s 79 now, but she was 18 at the time of the creation of the March on Washington She grew up in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, There was so much going on in Mississippi,e there was no room for them to just sit around and do nothing. They had to fight,”

Keep an eye out for this talented young woman she is making some big moves.

 

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“I feel so incredibly blessed and the feedback is really great. Someone stopped me in the street the other day. I’m starting to feel a little famous,” she laughs.

Article by iHeart radio personality and EURweb Spotlight host Jazmyn Summers.

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