Laverne Cox is leading her new TV show, Clean Slate, and the eight-episode first season has already premiered for viewers! The breakout star from the hit drama-comedy prison series Orange Is the New Black leads Clean Slate alongside a talented cast. In fact, Laverne achieved way more than just a role; she also created the show with her co-star, George Wallace, and served as an executive producer. So, where can fans watch the new series?
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Per the show’s IMDb page, the synopsis introduces Harry Slate, “an Alabama car wash owner is surprised when his estranged child returns home after 17 years, now a determined, proud trans woman named Desiree.”
Ahead of Clean Slate‘s premiere, George spoke with The Hollywood Reporter about how he and Laverne pitched the idea for the series. For starters, he wanted a re-imagination of Sanford and Son.
“So I said, ‘Let me go to Norman Lear,’” George recalled, before pointing out, “I had known him for 30 years and I said, ‘I want to reboot Sanford and Son.’ He says, ‘Are you kidding? You can’t do that show. Get a twist and come back.’ … At that time, Orange is the New Black was very popular. I never watched the show, but I kept hearing about this Laverne Cox. Who the hell is Laverne Cox? But thinking about her show, I wondered, what if I had a son that left home and came back and it was 23 years later and my child says, ‘Dad, I’m coming home tomorrow.’”
Laverne then interjected during the interview to say, “And that child says, ‘I was never your son, I was always your daughter.’”
“There are so many Black Christian women just like her all over the South,” Laverne, an Alabama native like her character, acknowledged. “There’s actually an organization of Christian mothers who have LGBTQ kids, and they got started just to give hugs to LGBTQ+ people. This is the thing, there’s so many people who are Christians who are loving. I grew up reading the Bible, summarizing the Sunday school lesson every Sunday, and there’s a lot going on in the Bible, but in the New Testament, God is love, Jesus is love, he forgives, he died for our sins. It is God’s job to judge, and it’s our job to love.”
