Gabrielle Union, actress and longtime girlfriend of NBA Miami Heat baller Dwayne Wade slam dunks the february issue of Ocean Magazine. In the mag Union talks about her new role in Tyler Perry’s new film ‘Good Deeds’, her wonderful relationship with D-Wade, and dishes on whether she’ll make babies with the athlete in the future, and hollywood prejudices on African American actors.
On her relationship with D-wade and living in Miami:
“D and I have a life together, too. I love my life in Miami, I can’t imagine functioning without both, I love the design district, I love Midtown, I love what’s happening downtown now. I can be at People’s Bar-B-Que or Sustain or Prime One Twelve, and I’m comfortable. It’s rare for me to feel that level of freedom. Miami represents joy for me”.
On keeping her house in California:
“It has been great because I have my own career and life elsewhere, I have a home I paid for with my own money, and I need to be able to nurture that as well.”
On future babies with D-Wade:
“I was never someone who thought about having kids. I mean, they’re great in theory, but I never imagined having one myself…Maybe over the next five years I could wrap my brain around becoming a mother and what that would mean in terms of sacrifice and dedication. I don’t do anything impulsively, so more toward the five years out than the one-year”.
As for the prejudices that still exist for African Americans in Hollywood Gabrielle says:
There are a lot of people who won’t give me a chance because I was in Bring it On a thousand years ago. They don’t think I can be more than that sassy sidekick. I guess they didn’t see Cadillac Records or Neo Ned. I try not to play the coulda, woulda, shoulda game. But there are so many great shows I wish I could be part of
Union appears in upcoming Tyler Perry film “Good Deeds” which hits theaters on February 24. Ocean Magazine is currently on newsstands.
