MARA HALL has Ambition and a message for those living with Type 2 Diabetes – Lasentinel

Mara Hall

I dont know what it is exactly that makes Mara Hall so downright loveable. Really, I dont know. What I do know, is that after speaking with her, I am convinced this dynamic actress, music teacher, producer, new mother, and champion for spreading awareness for living well with diabetes is my new best friend.

Heres what I learned about my new bestie Mara Hall. Shes best known for her comedic roles and has a very hefty body of work which includes portraying Nurse Kathleen on Greys Anatomy and numerous guest-starring roles that include Scandal (ABC) and The Quad(BET), supporting role in A Question of Faith (Silver Lining Entertainment), to name a few.

Mara made her national TV debut on the hit show Dance Your Ass Off as one of the contestants on Oxygens reality dance/weight-loss competition series. In 2015, Mara launched her social media movement and lifestyle show, I Got Something To Say #IGSTS, that empowers audiences through laughter.

Mara is also passionate about health, fashion, and beauty and loves to connect with fellow beauty queens across the U.S. and globally. The Detroit native now calls Atlanta home because shes causing all kinds of trouble on the new drama Ambitions on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network.

If youve not found the new showyetyou are in for a treat. Ambitions is created by Jamey Giddens and produced by Will Packer and is a multigenerational family saga that explores love, power, and politics in Atlanta. It centers around lawyer Stephanie (Robin Givens), Carlisle, the wife of Atlanta Mayor Evan Lancaster, and her rivalry with Amara Hughes (Essence Atkins), a prosecutor in the U.S. Attorneys Office who has just arrived in Atlanta with her husband, Titus. Stephanie and Amara used to be best friends who find themselves combatants in both their personal and professional lives. Stephanies ambitious husband, Evan Lancaster, dreams of being Georgias first African-American governor and will do anything to get there. Amaras husband, Titus, is the in-house counsel for a big pharmaceutical company fighting a class-action suit brought by Stephanies powerful family. Mara Hall plays Darcia Lancaster.

Here is what Mara Hall had to share about living her very best life and working for OWNs Ambitions and living with Type 2 diabetes.

LOS ANGELES SENTINEL: Mara Hall. Mara, Mara, Mara you are a piece of work on OWNs new show Ambitions a great villain, by the way in your own words, describe the show and your character, please.

MARA HALL: (laughing) Well, Ambitions is a nighttime soap opera that explores the lives of two families in Atlanta, Georgia. I play Darcia Lancaster, one of the Lancasters relatives who comes into town amidst a lot of chaos within the family

LAS: Yeassss, Darcia is perfect for Ambitions one of the reasons I love the show.

MH: Thank you. The show also explores so much of Atlantas social life thats filled with seduction, debauchery, treachery, and wonderful storylines.

LAS: Describe your character, Darcia.

MH: My character is strong sometimes nice, sometimes nasty. There will be sauciness, lust, lies, and sex.

LAS: Are you in the writers room?

MH: (laughing) No.

LAS: It sounds like you should be?

MH: From your lips to Gods ears.

LAS: Ok, lets speak it into the universe.

MH: Amen.

LAS: Mara Hall, stepping into the writers room of OWNs Ambitions to give her ideas on more sex, more lies, more intrigue and more drum roll please, more ambition.

MH: Youre funny.

LAS: I know. Ive heard great things from creatives working on OWNs shows. Tell me youre experience, please.

MH: You know, Ive had a very positive experience working with the network [OWN]. One thing, when I initially got the original role that I was for, I was seven months pregnant.

LAS: No?

MH: Yes. The OWN network, Lions Gate and Will Packer productions were very compassionate of me being a working mother, or soon to be working mother slash, actress, while I was pregnant. They were very, very supportive of me at the time.

LAS: Thats whats up. I love hearing this its unusual but refreshing. Sorry, keep going.

MH: They supported me the whole way through my delivering my daughter, they were an amazing team.

LAS: Mommie, shout out to your daughter. What is her name?

MH: (laughing) Marley Nicole Hall-Bryson and shes eleven months. She will be a year on January 5th.

LAS: Acting is a very competitive world. What keeps you motivated?

MH: Its the impact that I have on people when I am entertaining. I know that I have something special by the way people respond to me when; Im on stage, film, on camera. Its how I make them feel. If I didnt have that certain je ne sais quoi, I would have left acting a long time ago because my real passion is music.

LAS: Music?

MH: Im a certified music teacher and Ive taught elementary up to collegiate, instrumental-band, and that is my real passion.

LAS: Amazing.

LAS: Whats next for you in television and film?

MH: Well, I finished my first short film called Juicy Ladies which I produced and its inspired by my life.

LAS: Great title and what is Juicy Ladies about?

MH: Well, as I shared, its inspired by my life as a Type 2 Diabetic. It will air on Aspire TV in February 2020 and in collaboration with that I will also have a campaign to spread the good news on how to fight and live a healthy life with diabetes as an African-American woman and to promote positivity through the community through this short film [Juicy Ladies].

LAS: This is Gods work, Mara Hall.

MH: I was diagnosed with the disease almost 20 years ago. It impacts more than 25 million Americans and my brother passed away from Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA), he went into a coma because he had diabetes and didnt know it. Thats when it got real for me.

LAS: As I said, Juicy Ladies is an important work. It was a pleasure speaking and laughing with you. Lets do this again, in February, to dig into this film and talk about living with Type 2 Diabetes! Sound good?

MH: It does. Happy Holidays.

LAS: And to you, Mara Hall. Happy 2020.

Twitter Mara Hall (@Mara_Hall) http://www.oprah.com/app/ambitions-cast.htm

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