The conversation sprung up during a discussion about the show’s creator, Yvette Lee Bowser, revealing that she had to fight to keep the character of Maxine in the show. During the Q&A, Alexander said that she had no idea about that situation until Bowser discussed it in a 2019 interview. (“That was news to me,” she said).

Advertisement
Advertisement

She also gave sound advice to black creatives who are working against a big machine.

“If somebody says no, you have to go around another way,” she said. “...It’s not easy to do that. I hate that people who are trying to sell things that are not in the so-called mainstream have to work so hard to put their voices out there, but that’s just the way it is.”