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“ is a product of her environment,” Rockwell says. She knows she’s one outburst - justified or not - from being pegged as an Angry Black Woman. At times, she taps into her rage (like during fights with her boyfriend Lucky who becomes Terry’s sole father figure) and at others (like when her new landlord tries to force them to leave their apartment for unnecessary repairs, or a “renoviction” ), she has to stifle her feelings for the sake of survival. Onscreen, while life is whooping Inez’s ass, she has to carefully regulate her emotions.

To this day as Black women, we're still trying to be heard. Her wanting to be heard, her wanting to be felt, we've all been through that before.

“A lot of the things that triggered Inez have been triggers for us. Our struggles may not all be the same, but like just a lot of the things that she's been through, we've all been through it,” she says in that smoky baritone any Taylor fan will recognize instantly. “She probably made you cry because Inez is within all of us. And in an interview with Unbothered during our Go Off, Sis podcast, Teyana Taylor says that’s why Inez has been resonating so much with audiences (after I tell her the character made me weep uncontrollably). It’s a push-and-pull that Black women know well. She’s hard because she has to be and yet, at every turn, she’s met with pushback against her personality and tone policing asking for softness in a world that refuses to let her be soft. But Inez is used to life’s unfairness her tough exterior, capricious temper, and unpredictable bravado are clearly defense mechanisms. His survival is now explicitly linked to her own, and her anger becomes another thing she has to swallow (most of the time) to keep him safe - that, and their biggest secret: being together is essentially a crime.Īs Terry (who goes by Darryl at school thanks to a fake birth certificate) and Inez navigate their new reality, Inez tries to forge stability out of a shaky foundation, normalcy amidst a very abnormal - and unfair - situation. She refuses to let a Black boy falling victim to a brutal system be another anger-inducing detail of her life, so she takes him home - without the consent of the government. She is a Black woman in America in the 90s after all, but more than that, she’s an ex-convict fresh out of Rikers and a mother who’s about to lose her son Terry (the gut-wrenchingly adorable and shockingly good Aaron Kingsley Adetola) to the foster care system. Inez, played by the mesmerizing Teyana Taylor, has a lot to be mad about.

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There is a quiet rage simmering throughout A Thousand And One, threatening to spill out onto the changing streets of Harlem, from the creeks of the tattered floorboards of a dilapidated apartment, and – most of all - to burst free from Inez, the Black woman at its center.

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