People often call Regina Hall underrated. They’re probably right — but glance at her upcoming projects, and you can tell that Hollywood now sees her as a leading lady. tarantallegra writes
Photo: Derek Blanks/crowdMGMT Regina Hall pauses to answer the door. We’re Zooming, her from her expansive Los Angeles backyard, surrounded by tall trees as if perched at the edge of a forest; me, from my modest Manhattan apartment. The crew handling her home’s ongoing renovations has already left for the day, so the knock comes as a surprise. It’s a technician, there to swab her for COVID-19 so she could appear on Jimmy Kimmel Live! the next night.
Hall’s character in the limited series based on Liane Moriarty’s best-selling novel is Carmel Schneider, a hypersensitive divorcée who attends Masha’s New Age–inflected California retreat hoping to lose weight after her husband leaves her for another woman. Carmel is a different speed for Hall. She tends to play headstrong dynamos who wouldn’t be caught dead at a Goop-ian getaway built on self-help hokum.
Part of what she found, with help from the show’s costume designers, was a look that matched the exaggerated smile Carmel uses to mask her heartache. Hall wanted Carmel to seem “stuck.” This is someone who used to spend time on her appearance but lost her self-esteem somewhere along the way. Her slightly unkempt curls and ill-fitted cardigans give suburbs circa 1997. “Her shoes are bad, but she did try to do her hair,” Hall laughs.
Photo: Vince Valitutti/ HULU People often call Hall underrated. They’re probably right; 2018’s Support the Girls in particular proved she has a wider range than Hollywood sometimes lets her show. “It made a difference probably more than any other film,” she says. But what’s amazing is that the 50-year-old actor, who was born in Washington, D.C.
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