Garcelle Beauvais on the Gravity of Lifetime's 'Black Girls Missing' and a New Era of 'RHOBH' (Exclusive)

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Garcelle Beauvais is booked, busy and unbothered! The actress, producer and TV personality seemingly always has a lot on her plate, and she doesn't plan on stopping anytime soon.

ET's Rachel Smith sat down with the mother of two to discuss her latest project, the Lifetime film Not only does Beauvais star in the film, but she also executive produced it as part of Lifetime's Stop Violence Against Women campaign.Inspired by actual stories of missing women of color,  centers on a mother named Cheryl (Beauvais) whose daughter Lauren (Iyana Halley) is nowhere to be found.

Authorities and media dismiss Lauren as a runaway while focusing heavily on another missing girl, who is white. Cheryl and her 15-year-old daughter Marley (Taylor Mosby) enlist the help of a dedicated community of amateur internet sleuths to try to find Lauren.When Cheryl discovers the Black and Missing Foundation, she's horrified to discover the disparity in how missing persons of color cases are treated with a significant lack of media attention and law enforcement resources. «It's been a frustration just for our community, the Black community… when we go missing it doesn't seem like people care,» Beauvais tells ET. «The minute we're missing, it's like we're considered a runaway or 'they'll be back in a few days,' when everybody knows that the first few hours are crucial.

And if no one's looking, if we're not getting media attention, we can't find our loved ones.» She adds that «the minute» the film was pitched to her, she thought of Lifetime. «They're really doing a whole movement of movies [on] violence against women, to sort of highlight it,» she explains. «And it was just important — I'm a mom [and] the thought of one of my kids going missing and not.