The UK-born co-creator and showrunner of 'Bob Hearts Abishola' holds court with fellow Brits talk about the importance of their culture and 'making it' in America.
Tonderai is just off the plane from visiting family in South Africa and he and his producer wife Zoe Stewart and their two gorgeous kids are the closest chosen family I have in the U.S. They visited me in the dark days of rehab and were at both my weddings. When moving here in 2015, it was them who inducted me into the joy of deep-fried Thanksgiving turkey.
Yashere and Tonderai knew each other in London back in the day but weren’t aware that they are now nearly neighbors. Hearing them chatting, it’s clear that they both shared the same dream and vision that as Black British creatives they had to come to America to stand a chance of achieving their goals and potential. The UK was too small a pond and too much of a closed shop to break in.
In the wake of George Floyd’s murder and Black Lives Matter gaining some real traction, both Yashere and Tonderai Many folks come here from Blighty to break into America and give up if it doesn’t happen in a year or two. It can be particularly humbling and difficult to swallow, if you are famous and successful in Europe.We four are united in both hustle and stamina, which might come from not having been born into the “Downton Abbey"-esque upper-class, white privilege that Hollywood is traditionally more familiar with.
Leach shares openly about his past pain, substance misuse, and all the ways he “f— up” to help those fans who are struggling to find sobriety and acquire the tools they need to hang in there. He is obviously very committed to his own healing process after this brush with Cancel Culture, “I made mistakes ... I didn’t represent myself in ways that I want to ...and over the last three years [since getting sober] I’ve done a lot of work on that — self-control.
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