Da’Vinchi and La La Anthony discuss returning to BMF Season 2, Terry and Markaisha’s relationship, and more in an exclusive interview.
The second season of BMF has been in high demand ever since the first wrapped. Following the titular Black Mafia Family, the Starz original will finally make its return on January 6. GameRevolution spoke to stars Da’Vinchi and La La Anthony, who play Terry “Southwest T” Flenory, and Markaisha Taylor respectively, all about Season 2, the relationship their characters will build, the pressures of building a role based on reality, and more.
Is there an added pressure to get things right with BMF, because the show is based on and inspired by real events?
Da’Vinchi: Yeah for sure, there definitely is. When you’re playing characters who are still relatively young, alive, and vibrant, you deal with like, “how are they gonna like how I’m portraying them?” but after the success of Season 1 and talking to Terry Flenory about my delivery with the character, and seeing how excited he was for it, he was just happy about it, he loved how I did it, I was like, “man this is just great, now I’m able to take this and go even further with it.”
La La: For me, it is added pressure, because you wanna do it justice. I always think about if somebody was playing me, I wanna be like, “okay yeah I would do that, I would act like that,” you don’t wanna watch somebody playing yourself and be like, “they’re so far off the mark, they don’t get it.” I don’t think it will ever be perfect, but you want it to be as close to what they were really feeling or what was really going on as possible.
La La, we did only get fleeting glimpses of you in Season 1, but we do get to see a lot more of you as Markaisha this season, so what should audiences expect from you this time round?
La La: A very complicated love story. She’s coming from an abusive marriage, and then she meets Terry and at first, he’s just flirting, she’s not paying him any mind, and then it becomes more. He has all his baggage and mess with him, so it’s just two broken people dealing with a lot of mess trying to come together, and it just creates a lot of problems, but also in the middle of it all is still a beautiful love story.
Da’Vinchi, Terry comes in hot with that flirting, he shoots his shot pretty much straight away, so where is his mind at in those moments?
Da’Vinchi: I think in the beginning he’s just having a good time, he’s like “man this older woman who’s beautiful,” it’s a fun thing to do, but when he starts seeing her mindset, it makes him start falling in love. He thinks, “with this I can develop into a man and become this king I always pictured in my mind.
