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A Short Convo With Meagan Good

By Lucette Jefferson

From Vibe: The 28-year-old big-screen beauty discusses video models, racism in Hollywood and being Usher's No. 2

VIBE: Right now, I think people want to know where are you with your film career.

Meagan Good: I just produced a film that should be out by the end of the year called 'Video Girl.' It's very much like Gia –– the film Angelina Jolie did for HBO. It's not the Karrine Steffans story. It's about a very unassuming girl from a small town who used to be a professional dancer until she gets a knee injury. So she's in a place where she's trying to figure out what she wants to do professionally. She gets hooked into the video-modeling world, develops a drug habit and really gets caught up in the limelight.

Now I've heard about 'Video Girl' for some years now. Is this your brainchild or was it brought to you?

This project was brought to me about seven years ago. We've had it everywhere –– with Queen Latifah's company, Benny Medina's, a lot of different people. What I think the script needed was for me to sit down, go through it and figure out which story I wanted to tell. I really wanted to bring hip-hop culture into it, but I didn't want it to be limited to just one audience, so [I had] to mix up the cast and make sure it was multiracial. I think we did a good job. For what I wanted to come across, which is kind of a cautionary tale for young women, letting them know it's okay to go out there and be successful and make your money, but you've gotta understand it's not about the glitz and glamour. It's about not selling yourself short and being true to yourself.

Are you comfortable being a sex symbol?
Um, on screen I am to a certain extent. I think it’s important for women to feel empowered and to love themselves. I grew up super nerdy, super skinny, buckteeth, big ole afro and yet I had a sense of confidence about myself, like, ‘they just don’t get it yet.’

Would you ever do another music video?

I would do a music video for strategic reasons. If it’s one of the hottest artists out and one of the hottest songs playing on the radio I would do it simply because a music video is just a national commercial. It’s being played a couple hours, every day of the week for however long it’s playing.
What current song would you have considered being the leading lady for its video?

I would have loved to have done Usher’s “Oh My God.” It just seems like it would be so much fun. I didn’t even know it was him when I first heard it.

“When [Hollywood writers] write a fantastic script for a leading lady they don’t say ‘Let’s get Joy Bryant or Meagan Good.’ They say ‘Let’s get Naomi Watts or Hillary Duff.’”