They think she’s pretty wild, but they respect her and they respect what she does.” “What does that do to a person, to be a part of so much domestic violence? What I like about Freda is that she’s adored at the DA’s office. “I didn’t want her to be just such a caricature or every time she comes on, like, oh, what kind of funny, campy things she can say,” Posey said.
But Posey, who used to watch Court TV “in the night like a valium drip,” said the last thing she wanted was for those features to overshadow the depth she saw in Black and the weight of her job. The real Black stood out to viewers for her eccentricities: She dressed glamorously, in bright colors and never without a bold eyeshadow, and her prosecutorial style was theatrical.
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