Debbie Allen had become so accustomed to the director’s chair by the time LL Cool J’s NBC sitcom came around, “people were worried that I would not be able to just be an actress, that I would want to direct everything,” she says, chuckling. “But honey, I was happy just to go to make-up, to hair. It was fine with me!”

She had helmed LL Cool J’s early film Out-of-Sync, and “LL was so comfortable because I was there,” she notes, adding that from the start of his TV career, “he was funny, and he’s got a lot of creativity in him. We had a good time.”

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