BlackTree TV correspondent, Dr. Rachael Ross, sits down with actors Channing Tatum and Queen Latifah to discuss their new movie The Dilemma. Queen Latifah offers an explanation about her Lady Wood, and predicts working again with Channing Tatum on a future untitled "Stripper Movie" (Watch Out!).
Dana Owens aka Queen Latifah (Susan Warner) is a musician, television and film actress, a label president, an author and an entrepreneur. Blessed with style and substance, Latifah has blossomed into a one- woman entertainment con- glomerate. Heralded by the press and the industry as a force to be reckoned with, she has quite simply done it all
and shows no sign of slowing down. Latifah has had amazing success in Hollywood in
recent years, and on January 4, 2006, she became the first hip-hop artist to be crowned with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She received rave reviews, an Oscar® nomination for Best Supporting Actress, a Golden Globe nomination and a SAG Award nomina- tion for her portrayal as Matron Mama Morton in Miramax's Chicago. Following Chicago, Latifah starred in Disney's box-office hit Bringing Down the House, for which she also served as executive producer.
Her latest television movie, Life Support, for which she was both the star and executive producer, is a true-life drama in which she plays a mother who overcomes an addiction to crack and becomes a posi- tive role model and an AIDS activist in the black community. The film aired on HBO on March 10, 2007, and Latifah received rave reviews, as well as an Emmy Award nomination, and won Golden Globe and SAG awards. In July 2007, she starred in Neil Meron and Craig Zadan's Hairspray, playing Motormouth Maybelle, and was recently seen in the film Mad Money, starring alongside Diane Keaton and Katie Holmes.
In Fox Searchlight's The Secret Life of Bees, Latifah starred alongside Jennifer Hudson, Alicia Keys and Dakota Fanning. Directed by Gina Prince- Bythewood, The Secret Life of Bees won the Holly- wood Film Award at the Hollywood Film Festival. Most recently, Latifah starred in the romantic comedy Just Wright, which she also produced.
Latifah was seen in Wayne Wang's Last Holiday and starred in MGM's Beauty Shop (a spin-off of the hit Barbershop), which she also produced. She also appeared in Marc Forster's Stranger Than Fiction, playing opposite Emma Thompson and Dustin Hoffman, and was the voice of the woolly mammoth in Ice Age: The Meltdown.
To most people, releasing multiple movies would be enough but Queen Latifah wasn't satisfied. On September 25, 2007, Latifah released her album titled "Trav'lin' Light," for which she was nominated for a Grammy Award. Co-produced by three-time Grammy winner Tommy LiPuma, the album was the long- awaited follow up to Latifah's highly received and Grammy-nominated "The Dana Owens Album." The platinum-selling album is a collection of timeless classics chosen and covered by Latifah herself. As Latifah demonstrated both in Living Out Loud (1998) and her Oscar®-nominated performance in Chicago (2002), her vocal talent is as impressive as her acting. In August 2009, her latest album, titled "Persona," was released. Executive produced by Cool and Dre, "Persona" brings together the two worlds of hip-hop and pop, creating a new sound for the Queen.
Queen Latifah is also one of music's most well- respected rappers. From her groundbreaking 1989 debut, "All Hail the Queen," which set the visual and contextual standard for female rappers, to her bold foray into R & B, Latifah continues to define what a woman in the music industry should be.
A BlackTree Media Production
Produced by Jamaal Finkley
Segment Journalist Dr. Rachael Ross
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hey channing, i love you so much GET RID OF THE BEIRD
667863thesavedlinda 8 months ago
i wanna have sex with ya words and bang your brain hahahaha queen queen queen u never cease to amaze me
OrangeFlavour28 11 months ago
lol the estrogenous situation, and then the testerogical region is happening too.....
masskonfuzion 1 year ago
It's safe to come out Latifah we will still love you.
Geezyone 1 year ago 2