CCH Pounder Looks Back on "LA Law"

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Memories from the Set: CCH Pounder on "LA Law"


After two years "spent weeping and moaning" as "women of unfortunate means — poverty-stricken, whoring, selling kids for crack," Pounder told her agent, "I'm done" with such roles, in large part because she recognized "the influence of television is huge, and people think that what they see is how the world is."

So when NBC's "LA Law" offered her the role of "another unfortunate woman," Pounder perused the script and countered, "I'd like to play the judge. And after a lot of back-and-forth and negotiation, they finally said, 'OK, we'll let her read.'"

Holding firm and landing the recurring role of Judge Roseann Robin, Pounder avows, "was a game changer" in her career.

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