LaTanya Richardson Jackson Instagram – In the dressing room of a Hell’s Kitchen rehearsal space, LaTanya Richardson Jackson’s voice is warm and her eyes are full of mischief. She’s freshly recovered from gallbladder surgery a few weeks prior, and her husband, Samuel L. Jackson, is in New Orleans, running lines for his surprise cameo in Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show. She refers to herself as a “blue-collar actress” (she also directed Samuel onstage in “The Piano Lesson”), but here she is preparing to introduce a new grande dame to Broadway: Claudine Jasper, the matriarch of “Purpose,” the latest work of irreverence and soul-searching by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.
“He’s the truth,” Richardson Jackson says of the playwright, tapping her index finger on her highlighted script. “It is hard for me to find beautiful writers like August Wilson. But comparatively? This boy, he’s got that extra lil’ something that God touches you with.” Tap the link in bio for a look behind the curtain of the new production.
Photo: @jaykolsch | Posted on 25/Feb/2025 22:01:17
