Candiace Dillard on Parodying Housewives on ‘Family Reunion’ With Kenya Moore and Brandi Glanville (Exclusive)
Netflix is bringing Real Housewives fans a fever dream of a crossover with the latest batch of Family Reunion episodes, as The Real Housewives of Atlanta’s Kenya Moore returns to the family sitcom as the “play cousin” of Cocoa McKellan (Tia Mowry) – and this time, she’s bringing along some fellow ‘Wives: Beverly Hills alum Brandi Glanville and The Real Housewives of Potomac’s Candiace Dillard Bassett. The trio star in a show within the show, a parody of Housewives called Trophy Wives. While Kenya plays a version of herself, Brandi and Candiace take on characters – a dream come true for Candiace.
“I love telling this story,” the RHOP star gushes to ET over video chat. “So, I’m an actor. I’ve been an actor for many years … but I’ve been waiting, as all actors are, for their big break, for their ‘moment.’ I would say to whoever would listen, ‘You know what? It’s fine, because Netflix is going to call me. When Netflix calls, I’m dropping everything. I’m going to wherever Netflix takes me,’ not really ever thinking that something would come of it.”
Well, the call came and Candiace snatched the opportunity to play Sunita Chanel, a snooty reality star with fake, blue contacts and an even faker French accent. Candiace says she pulled inspiration for her catty character from Eartha Kitt and, of course, some of her Housewives co-stars – but she won’t name names.
“She’s ridiculous,” Candiace says of her sitcom alter ego. “So honestly, it was easy to pull from any number of Housewives who live in the clouds and are crazy and ridiculous at any moment in time. So, I was able to draw from just the Housewives sphere as a whole.”
The episode sees Candiace and Brandi’s Sunita Chanel and Heidi facing off against Kenya, a little bit of art imitating life for the Celebrity Apprentice alumni (Brandi and Kenya), who famously feuded on the NBC reality show.
“So, when I realized that it was going to be the three of us, I almost immediately was like, oh dear, what’s this going to be like?” Candiace recalls. “But they were both consummate professionals. They were great. We worked well together.”
“I don’t think I felt any tension, any beef, pork, or chicken,” she quips. “You almost couldn’t have tension. It was very light and easy. We were so focused on delivering our lines and the showrunner and the crew is reacting to us and laughing at our craziness in the scenes.”
The women swapped Housewives tales between takes, with Candiace even seeking Kenya’s counsel as she was living through the aftermath of filming RHOP’s fifth season (the ladies filmed Family Reunion in February 2020, just before the coronavirus pandemic shut down the world). Candiace was anxious ahead of the show’s premiere, seeing as season 5 largely centered around a November 2019 physical altercation between her and Monique Samuels.
“It was very much like, ‘You can get through this. It’s not going to be like this forever. Fans move on quickly. And when they move on, it will be incumbent upon you to use the clean slate wisely. And focus on things that you have going on,’” Candiace shares. “I have taken that advice, working on music, doing other things in the acting realm. So, it was very, like, big sister-like. Just, ‘You can get through it and you will make it to the other side.'”
Family Reunion proved to be a bit cathartic, too, as Candiace’s character gets into a physical altercation of her own. The 34-year-old knows some might find the moment hypocritical, but she calls it therapeutic.
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“Well, No. 1 … this is fiction,” she notes, “and that’s the beauty of fiction is that you get to tell someone else’s story, and someone like crazy lady Sunita Chanel, she is multilayered because you’ll learn something special about her and who she is versus who she wants to be. And I think that in and of itself is a lesson because a lot of people, some in the Housewives, the Bravo-sphere, do struggle with figuring out who they are versus who they want to be.”
“So I was excited to be able to play that role,” she continues. “And I think for me in moving forward, and even in my therapy sessions about how to get past a wild season, like season 5, I was encouraged and I embraced the idea of, how can I make light of a really heavy situation in a healthy way that’s not offensive to anyone and that doesn’t stir up too much crazy controversy? And I feel like the best way to do that and to wave at the haters is to prance onto the Paramount lot, and do my thug fizzle at Family Reunion. And that’s what I did. And I’m really proud of this episode and the show.”
The “I See You” singer says getting to act opposite a childhood idol like Tia was the cherry on top of an already amazing experience.
“I was like, I was clutching my pearls,” Candiace admits. “It was all so much. No, of course I grew up watching Sister, Sister. There were quite a few fun, family Black shows on television in that era… and then they kind of went away, and what I love about this show is that it is contributing to the resurgence of wholesome Black television that you can watch with your family.”
“I get chills now just thinking about it,” she says of shooting the show. “I’ve never been in a room where the writers’ room was an all-Black writers’ room. That was a first for me. Everybody in the room, for the most part, was a person of color.”
“I actually just saw today, Marsai Martin put out a statement saying that she does not want to make television or art that highlights Black pain, and I felt that,” Candiace adds. “And I feel like Family Reunion is that show. It shows that Black families, that Black people, as units and as individuals, are not monolithic, that we come in all different shapes and sizes and our families are multi-layered and multicultural, a lot of the time, and that needs to be shown. And that’s what I love so much about this show.”
Candiace is ready and waiting for a call to come back for Family Reunion Part 4, but in the meantime is (seemingly) filming season 6 of RHOP. While the Bravolebrity refused to confirm her involvement, citing that Bravo has yet to announce the show’s renewal, she did hint at where things are headed after Monique’s exit from the franchise.
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“I would hope that we could come together as a group and find a way to healthily and happily move forward and make room for new drama,” Candiace offers. “I’m so over season 5 and talking about season 5 and what happened in season 5. I would want a season 6 to be a new chapter for our group.”
“I definitely think that that announcement was a load off of all of us,” she says of Monique’s choice to quit the show. “Season 5 was dark. It was very heavy and it took on a life of its own, right? It became bigger than all of us, even, I’m close to several of our producers and it affected everybody, not just the cast, but everyone.”
“It was hard and it was very dark,” she reiterates. “So, anytime you have a dark cloud, when that cloud is removed, it obviously lifts the morale of the group and allows a space for us to move forward. And it’s just up to us to take that path and move forward. And I would hope that if we’re coming back that that’s what we’re able to do.”
Monique appears to have more to say on the matter, though, as she’s set to release her Binder Time Stories series on YouTube and Patreon over the next few weeks. The videos feature fairytale-style stories about characters inspired by Monique’s RHOP co-stars, all pulled from the binder of receipts she brought to the season 5 reunion. When asked what she makes of the webisodes, Candiace coughs up a curt, “I don’t care.”
For more of Candiace’s thoughts on the state of RHOP (including why Karen Huger was wearing a Wonder Woman costume in the month of March), plus her review of Family Reunion stars Tia Mowry and Loretta Devine’s very own Housewives taglines, watch the video above.
All episodes of Family Reunion are now streaming on Netflix, while The Real Housewives of Potomac will return to Bravo sometime this year.
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Sunita Shekhawat on training Indian craftsmen in French enamelling technique, pliqué-a-jour
Jaipur-based designer, Sunita Shekhawat touted as the ‘Modern Meenakar’, talks about exploring the French enameling technique, pliqué-a-jour and its various colour opportunities for her new Bijou Bijou collection.
“Colour has always been my greatest inspiration,” says Jaipur-based designer, Sunita Shekhawat known for her distinctive style of meenakari or encrusted-enamel jewellery. “In spite of creating kundan, meena and polki jewellery for 25 years, there is always an artistic craving. It is this desire that led me to explore the French enameling technique, pliqué-a-jour for my new collection”.
Plique-à-jour literally means ‘letting in daylight’ in French and is a vitreous enameling technique where the enamel is applied in cells with no backing so light can shine through it. “The advantage of using this technique to create jewellery is that it provides you with multiple colours to work with. The transparent or translucent enamel serves almost as a Pantone shade card of colours for instance, a simple purple colour can have 15-20 hues. The vast colour palette is almost like the one a painter has at their disposal, even the most precious gemstones can’t match its vibrancy of colour. This liberty doesn’t exist in kundan meena, thereby leading new to explore this technique,” she explains.
Moving away from the constraints of traditional meenakari jewellery also allows her to experiment with precious gemstones and a modern aesthetic. The brand’s constant leitmotif, the Lotus flower gets a modern makeover as a vibrant purple-hued kunzite stone sits boldly on a lotus leaf using green enamel. Other pieces from the collection employ the use of unique colour combinations like turquoise gemstone with green enamel set, art nouveau pieces in coral and translucent mother-of-pearl pieces with floral designs.
The pliqué-a-jour technique also serves as an unexpected solution to design plagiarism, an issue that Sunita Shekhawat’s designs often face. “The designs and technique behind the pieces can’t easily be copied, it can easily take 4-5 years to do so,” says the designer. “The process is very time consuming and chances of failure are very high. The application of enamel in the gold valve has to be very precise, and one wrong step and you will have to redo the whole thing. It’s very important that the enamel creates a vitreous stained-glass effect as per desire so that the precious stones can be placed around it.”
It is for these reasons that this highly-specialised form took over two years to develop and perfect at the House of Sunita Shekhawat. The designer painstakingly trained her in-house craftsmen in the technique. “These artisans have been working with me for almost 25 years now and their lives and work isn’t simply governed by monetary gains but by passion for the form. They are as passionate and invested in creating beautiful jewellery as me, and we often sit across the table discussing and perfecting the pieces. The karigars are an integral part of the process,” says Sunita Shekhawat.
The city of Jaipur serves as a perennial inspiration as well as a playing field of opportunities for the designer to work with. “The advantage of being in the city is that you can source any gemstone, get it cut as per your requirement, work with the best artisans, meenakars and polishers in the country. The big French and Italian jewellery houses often come here and stay for months to get their pieces made. I am lucky to be based here and this helps me create the kind of jewellery that is expected from the house of Sunita Shekhawat.” From traditional meenakari pieces to the modern art deco styles of the Bijou Bijou collection, each piece is designed to cater to various whims and fancies of the modern day woman.
Here’s a closer look at some of the masterpieces from the collection –
Images: Courtesy Sunita Shekhawat
Global Producto de maquillaje de cejas Mercado Escenario actual y perspectivas de crecimiento para 2021, estándares comerciales y previsiones hasta 2031
Investigación del mercado global Producto de maquillaje de cejas de 2021 que incluye tecnologías, panorama, estrategias y Información de pronóstico.
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Notas clave sobre el mercado de Producto de maquillaje de cejas:
“Global Producto de maquillaje de cejas mercado 2021” ofrece información clave sobre el mercado internacional junto con el tamaño del mercado y estimaciones para el período 2022 a 2031.
La investigación incluye información primaria sobre el producto, como el alcance de la Producto de maquillaje de cejas, la segmentación y la perspectiva. De manera similar, incluye estática de oferta-demanda, Producto de maquillaje de cejas viabilidad de inversión y factores que limitan el crecimiento de una organización. Especialmente, ofrece Producto de maquillaje de cejas demanda de productos, procedimientos anuales y una faceta de crecimiento de la industria. La próxima área de mercado de Producto de maquillaje de cejas junto con las actuales ayudan a los proveedores, tomadores de decisiones y lectores clave a planificar diferentes políticas comerciales de Producto de maquillaje de cejas en consecuencia.
El último informe Global Producto de maquillaje de cejas analiza todo lo que el propietario de una empresa necesita saber sobre el mercado global Producto de maquillaje de cejas para el período de pronóstico, de 2022 a 2031. El documento ofrece información sobre lo que el cliente objetivo necesita y desea. Los expertos de la industria han extraído datos de varias fuentes sobre tamaño, participación, tasa de crecimiento, volumen de productos, capacidad de producción, autoridad de importación y exportación, canales de intercambio y más, los han analizado a fondo. Al evaluar adecuadamente a los competidores y sus ofertas, el estudio tiene como objetivo impulsar a los propietarios de negocios a dar un paso adelante. En la parte inicial del informe, los lanzamientos recientes del Informe de mercado Producto de maquillaje de cejas presentan información detallada sobre las estadísticas pasadas para implementar en la situación actual del Producto de maquillaje de cejas Investigación de mercado que incluye tecnologías, panorama, estrategias &erio; Información de pronóstico. Este informe de Producto de maquillaje de cejas también cubre los factores que influyen en la economía, los avances tecnológicos, el entorno de la industria y la dinámica del mercado.
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Los jugadores clave en este Producto de maquillaje de cejas mercado son:
LOREAL Group, Max Factor, Estee Lauder, OperaPIAS), THEFACESHOP, Benefit, CHANEL, LVMH, DHC, Shiseido
El informe Producto de maquillaje de cejas proporciona una descripción general básica del negocio, incluidas definiciones, clasificaciones, aplicaciones y fabricación de cadenas industriales. Se anticipa que el mercado global de Producto de maquillaje de cejas aumentará con una tasa de crecimiento significativa constante entre 2021 y 2031, según cinco años de encuesta de datos históricos. El accionista clave puede analizar estadísticas, gráficos y amp; cifras analizadas en este informe de Producto de maquillaje de cejas para la planificación estratégica que conduce al éxito de la organización.
Producto de maquillaje de cejas Informe de mercado analizado según el producto principal:
Segmentación por tipo de producto: Polvo para cejas, Lápiz para cejas, Crema para cejas, Gel para cejas Segmentación de la industria: Ventas en línea, Ventas fuera de línea
Mercado Producto de maquillaje de cejas global – Análisis regional:
** Norteamérica (Estados Unidos, Canadá y México)
** Europa (Alemania, Francia, Reino Unido, Rusia e Italia)
** Asia-Pacífico (China, Japón, Corea, India y Sudeste de Asia)
** Sudamérica (Brasil, Argentina, Colombia)
** Oriente Medio y África (Arabia Saudita, Emiratos Árabes Unidos, Egipto, Nigeria y Sudáfrica)
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Cobertura de países: en todo el mundo: el informe contiene datos estadísticos de 200 países e incluye perfiles completos de los 50 países consumidores más importantes (Estados Unidos, China, Italia, India, Canadá, Australia, República de Corea, Japón, Alemania, Reino Unido, Francia, Brasil, Federación de Rusia, España, México, Indonesia, Colombia, Suiza, Suecia, Países Bajos, Turquía, Arabia Saudita, Emiratos Árabes Unidos, Bélgica, Argentina, Noruega, Nigeria, Polonia, Austria, Malasia, Israel , Singapur, Tailandia, Dinamarca, Sudáfrica, Egipto, Filipinas, Finlandia, Chile, Portugal, Kazajstán, Argelia, Irlanda, Pakistán, República Checa, Vietnam, Qatar, Perú, Rumania, Grecia) + los mayores países productores.
Cubiertas de informes:
Resumen ejecutivo: descripción general del mercado, alcance de las estadísticas del mercado Producto de maquillaje de cejas.
Segmentación del mercado: mercado por tipo, mercado por aplicación.
Jugadores destacados: información de la empresa, producto y amp; Servicios, datos comerciales, desarrollo reciente.
Segmentación geográfica: producción regional, demanda regional, comercio regional.
producción regional, demanda regional, comercio regional. Descripción general de precios: precio por fabricante, precio por aplicación, precio por tipo.
precio por fabricante, precio por aplicación, precio por tipo. Conclusion.
Cuota de mercado:
El informe descubre la venta total del mercado generada por un Producto de maquillaje de cejas en particular durante un período de tiempo. Los especialistas en comercio estiman la participación teniendo en cuenta las ventas de resultados por encima de un límite y luego dividiéndolas por las ventas generales de la industria Producto de maquillaje de cejas global durante un período definido. Los expertos en la materia utilizan más esta métrica para ofrecer una idea general de la participación y el tamaño de un Producto de maquillaje de cejas y sus rivales inmediatos. Proporcionando un conocimiento profundo del puesto que una empresa, así como un emprendedor, ocupa en el mercado global de Producto de maquillaje de cejas.
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El informe de investigación explora el mercado de Producto de maquillaje de cejas en todo el mundo y muestra un resumen, definición y alcance de la industria junto con las principales regiones y países. El informe de investigación proporciona un estudio detallado sobre todos y cada uno de los aspectos de Producto de maquillaje de cejas Market. Además, el estudio de investigación clasifica el mercado según los tipos de productos, las aplicaciones y las industrias del usuario final de Producto de maquillaje de cejas. También se explican los principales actores de la industria, el análisis de ingresos y el margen de ventas. El informe también cubre el análisis de materias primas, las especificaciones de producción y consumo. Además, el informe también cubre la segmentación geográfica del mercado de Producto de maquillaje de cejas. Se cubre el análisis DAFO, la tasa de crecimiento para cada tipo y aplicación. Una perspectiva de mercado global de previsiones de Producto de maquillaje de cejas conducirá a valiosos planes comerciales y movimientos estratégicos.
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