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Creator #QuintaBrunson is decorated with plenty of Hollywood accolades for populating her “Abbott Elementary” with memorable and hilarious three-dimensional characters. But sitting with #AmyPoehler on her new “Good Hang” podcast, the Emmy winner shared that her own #JanineTeagues was met with criticism from Black women because she was not perfectly put together. She remembered it feeling like Janine was expected to be representative of all Black women. “I’ll be real with you: She’s a Black character … Black audiences have so few representative characters on screen, and Black womanhood alone is so touchy,” Brunson shared. “So when a lot of women were seeing Janine not present as they wanted her to, that became tough — and I understand it.” She said that her aim is to create character where “the show doesn’t care what the audience thinks,” but that “that was a challenge with Janine.” Brunson went on to explain that while she understands some of the pushback against the complicated and...

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