Sharon Leal

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1972 age 0

   Born

2. 2006 age 34

   CreditDreamgirls

• ARAnika Noni Rose3 titles
• MHMark Harelik2 titles
• CCChristopher Cousins2 titles
• AGAdam Godley2 titles
• ZGZach Grenier2 titles
• RRRomy Rosemont2 titles
• PJPeter Jacobson2 titles
• CGCurrie Graham2 titles
• MAMatthew John Armstrong2 titles
• CHCharlie Hofheimer2 titles

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• No, I had never read the book. I remember seeing the script long before we made the film. It’d been floating around, and had scared every actress. I think that whenever something scares you, you feel challenged, and that sort of piques my interest. So, I tried to see if I could hop in there, attack the role, and try to get it done. They had that great cast of men with William Levy, Boris Kodjoe and Tyson [Beckford]. When I spoke to [producer] Paul Hall and [director] Billie Woodruff, we just dove in and had a great time. It’s a very specific genre, but it appeals to a population of women that really loved, supported and enjoyed the film. So, I’m happy I did it. It was a good experience

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• Whenever you step into a role, you want to get the back story, the psychology behind your character. Obviously, with Zoe, she was a woman very much in denial about things that had happened to her in the past as a child. I just researched addiction, in general, and the actual illness of sex addiction, in particular. Turns out, it’s not all that different from alcohol, drug or food addiction. They’re all very similar.

  Sharon Leal, CC BY-SA 4.0

• You work from the inside, out. Addicted’s a very titillating movie with tons of sex scenes. But my job was to focus on what motivated all that behavior: what Zoe was running away from and what dysfunction was triggering her, on a psychological level. That’s what I really spent my time researching in order to be able to emulate and give her a base.

  Sharon Leal, CC BY-SA 4.0

• It was great! It’s always wonderful when you get to work with one of your friends you love in real-life. I did meet Tasha on Why Did I Get Married, but we remained very close ever since. We shot all of our scenes together in the therapist’s office first. It was nice doing those scenes with someone I was comfortable with, since they were so intimate. We have a natural rapport that made it a little bit easier.

  Sharon Leal, CC BY-SA 4.0