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It’s been over ten years since Golden Brooks starred as Maya, the hard-working assistant and devoted wife and mother, on UPN’s sitcom Girlfriends.
After the show went off the air in 2008, many fans were left frustrated, asking the cast — which also included Tracee Ellis Ross, Jill Marie Jones, and Persia White — for a reboot or film version of the popular series. Brooks tells ABC Audio that she can understand why fans are still yearning for the show.
“I think people still are fighting for this movie, or a reboot of the show, because they’re still really honestly…thirsting for this,” she says. “I think black women especially. And I know Girlfriends transcended just black women, but… they still need it.”
Created by Mara Brock-Akil, Girlfriends, which has been considered one of the most influential black comedies ever on TV, followed the lives of four very different women from California, who eventually put aside their differences and became close friends. In an effort to appease fans, Ross even brought the core cast together last year for a feminist-themed episode of her ABC sitcom black-ish.
Still, Brooks says more needs to be done, adding that “even with the Olivia Popes and the Cookies… there’s still something that black women want.”
“I think Insecure is great,” she says, noting that “one of the writers of Girlfriends is over there too.”
“I think that show does a great job. [But,] I still think that there’s so many more stories to be told.”
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