Angela’s under an insurmountable amount of stress, anxiety and insecurity, and I was feeling all of that when I got home. “When I came back home, I had to decompress. “I took Angela home with me and I’ve never done that before with any character I’ve ever played,” the veteran actress admitted. Every project I was doing I put aside, and I buckled down and I followed their lead.”Ĭole’s castmate Tammy Townsend who plays Joe’s wife, Angela Washington, had almost the opposite problem when it came to filming each of the 60-minute episodes in the series. “Seeing the dedication that the cast had, for me not to have that same dedication would be weird and I couldn’t do that,” he said.

Though initially Cole couldn’t fathom abandoning his other work to focus solely on the TV show, remarking he was typically the “first one to come, first one to leave,” when it came to other roles, eventually he realized everything else had to take a backseat. Tyler Perry Says Bidding Process for Paramount's BET Business Was 'Disrespectful'

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