Gabrielle Union holds hands with her co-star Jeremy Pope at the premiere of their new movie, The Inspection, during the 2022 New York Film Festival at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center on Friday (October 14) in New York City.
The two actors met up with their co-stars Raul Castillo, Aaron Dominguez, Eman Esfandi, McCaul Lombardi, Aubrey Joseph, and Andrew Kai, as well as producers Effie Brown and Chester Algernal Gordon and director Elegance Bratton for a Q&A on stage ahead of the screening.
Earlier in the day, Gabrielle and Jeremy also participated in another press conference for the film.
Just recently, Gabrielle opened up about how she found it difficult to take on the role of Inez, a mother who rejects her son after finding out that he is gay.
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Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, Gabrielle shared that she was first looking at the project as an executive producer only.
“I normally look for characters that have some chunk of me in them, and I did not see that in Inez,” she shared, adding that Elegance encouraged her as an artist “was something I never allowed myself to see about myself.
She went on, saying that the common place she found with Inez is that “everybody is on the chopping block, everybody,” she explains. “Who you will sell down the river, thinking it will get you one step further? It can get dark.”
“I always look at homophobes as trash. And I’m like, ‘Google is free and it’s not my job — I’m not doing free labor for you to figure out how to love your kid,’” Gabrielle says. “But through the process of [making The Inspection], it’s like, Oh, maybe I’m not so different in terms of what lead me to that point. I’m never going to reject my child. None of my children are disposable. But I get the deep desire to be seen as worthy. And anything that threatens that can go. And for some people, that includes their children.”
FYI: Gabrielle wore a Prada dress with Tiffany & Co. jewelry.
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