{blackbabes} 'American Crime's' Regina King had a Muslim guide 'accessible 24/7'

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Zap2it: What do you see as the main advantage of "American Crime" being a limited-run series?

Regina King: It's a complete story, where usually when we're watching shows or movies, it's told through a certain character's perspective. Even though some shows will say it's an ensemble cast, it's still a little more through one or two characters' lens, but this is truly a complete story. You end [up] feeling frustrated like we do, you feel hope like we do -- all of the things that all of us feel in our day-to-day lives and experiences that happen to us.

Zap2it: What sort of preparation did you do to play your Muslim character in "American Crime"?

Regina King: Well, luckily, there was a little bit of time prior that I was able to do a little research and phone calls before I left. It kind of all happened really fast, but ABC provided an amazing Muslim woman named Taraji that lived in Texas actually ... San Antonio, Texas. And she would come down, and she taught me how to wrap the hijab, and she just was totally available the whole time.

And she has been Muslim all of her life, so to have someone accessible 24/7 that was there to teach me how to say some of the prayers, the Arabic words properly -- I just had a wealth of knowledge, because that's all she's ever been, accessible 24/7. And ABC set that up, so it's kind of one of those things where I'm lucky to be an actor to not have to try to find, "Where am I going to get this information?" It was open for me, and I would go and pray with her, and just kind of dove into the Muslim experience.

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