
We all watched and fell in love with Tony award nominated actress Sanaa Lathan when her character struggled with the mountain highs and valley lows of a relationship in the epic romantic hit film ‘Love and Basketball’ in 2000, a role that she had to physically study for. “Girl, there were times when I didn’t think I was going to make it!” she told me describing the grueling basketball training she had to do in order to convince audiences that she was a true ‘ball playa’, a line, if you recall, her character uses to emphatically self proclaim herself.
Sanaa means ‘brilliance’ in Swahili and ‘work of art’ in Arabic and her name suits her well. As the public became even more enchanted with her talents as she nailed...