‘The Vince Staples Show’ Star Vanessa Bell Calloway On Season 2 And Raising Sons Compared To Daughters – Blavity
Vanessa Bell Calloway is embracing her rich comedic roots as Anita Staples in The Vince Staples Show.
As the Netflix series returns for its second season, Calloway said that although many people know her for playing dramatic roles, it’s always refreshing to be a part of a comedy-driven show because that means it’s real.
“If you try to force something and try to make it funny, then it’s going to feel pushed and forced and probably not as funny as it could be,” Calloway told Blavity’s Shadow and Act, adding that you get a much better result when coming from a “real” perspective and point of view.
“I’ve enjoyed that because I love doing drama, but I also have a real, you know, comedic sense, and a lot of people don’t know that about me, so they’re learning that about me because I’ve done other comedic things, but this has been a dream role to do the mixture of dramedy.”
‘Her mission is to be with her children and love them always’
Calloway’s character as Vince’s mom often discloses that her son has been “going through some things,” which we see her try to help him navigate throughout the highly anticipated second season.
“She’s one of those interesting women,” Calloway said. “She loves her children, and I think she loves them because she’s very brutally honest to them. You know, when you don’t care about somebody, you just let them get away with stuff. She’s in their face; she’s in their business, and she really tells them how she feels and how she sees things. So going into this, I just think her honesty is always, you know, she ain’t taking no mess off nobody.”
She added, “She’s just gonna say it like she sees it,” concluding, “Her mission is to be with her children and love them always.”
Raising daughters and babying sons
The dynamic that Anita has with her son versus the relationship with her daughter, Bri, is often on two opposite sides of the spectrum. It’s the visual representation of the notion that sons are usually held to a different regard than daughters.
“We raise our daughters and baby our sons,” Calloway reflected. “Even though she’s fussing at him, she’ll be like, ‘You know, he’s going through something, leave my boy’ — I call it the Ugly Cousin Syndrome. I can curse you out; I can say what I want to you, but don’t let anybody else say something to you because we will be fighting. So she’s that way with him. She raises her daughter to be strong and to be this woman, but she’s babying that boy, like ‘Don’t you say nothing about my baby. You know, he’s having a hard time.’”
She continued, “He’s a mama’s boy, and what I love about this is, at his age and his so-called fame, you see, he still needs his mama.”
“I think that’s true of a lot of children,” she mentioned, adding that she has two young adult daughters in their 30s. “One is married, and she still really needs me. One is not married, but the oldest one is very, you know, professional; she’s doing her thing, but they turned 5 years old real quick, you know? It’s just a nice storyline where it shows the love of a mother and son, the difference in raising a daughter and a son, but also that they both need her in different ways.”
The second season of The Vince Staples Show is now streaming on Netflix.
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