Kym Whitley scored her first movie role by being different — and ridiculously funny.The Ohio native had been in the popular play “Beauty Shop” and a few commercials.
But when she auditioned for the part of Suga in “Next Friday,” she knew comedy was her calling. “I went into the audition and … I was hungry for it.
I looked at the room and I saw all women that didn’t look like me,” Kym told me on this week’s “Renaissance Man.”“They were thin and young, in shape.
I mean, I was young then, but I was not the size [they were] thinking of [for the character] Suga,” she said. “I was like, ‘Well, that’s going to be tough.’ So, I remember keeping my coat on.
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