Annie Get Your Gun, the musical the familiar phrase is drawn from. “That production really stuck with me,” she says. “It definitely was a catalyst for me wanting to do theater.”It was a delayed catalyst.
Jones didn’t pursue work on the stage until after college. “I had a serious self-confidence issue growing up,” says the 30-year-old. “And as much as I wanted to perform, I didn’t think that people believed in me.
I was told I was too black, too fat, too queer. There was definitely something different about me that I was told the market was not interested in.
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