Mo’Nique says she would be Melissa McCarthy if she were white

Mo’Nique isn’t done criticizing Hollywood.

The Oscar winner, 56, has criticized the lack of equal opportunities in show business, saying she should have the same career path as her white counterparts.

“If I were a white woman, do you know what my name would be? Melissa McCarthy,” Mo’Nique said during a wide-ranging interview on Shannon Sharpe Shay Shay Club this week’s podcast. “If I were a white woman, my name would be Melissa McCarthy. Same history. Five-year sitcom in syndication. The opportunities are not the same.”

Black women and the community in general “are judged with a different stick,” she added. Her comments came in response to Sharpe’s observation that she should be as commercially successful as people like Dave Chappelle and other stars who have emerged from the stand-up scene.

Before winning the Oscar in 2009 Precious, Mo’Nique appeared in comedies. Moesha, The Hughleysand, most notably, The Parkers. His credits since then include films. Phat Girlz, Soul Plane, Bessie, Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins, and Almost Christmas.

Mo’Nique has long accused Hollywood of blackmailing her after she refused to participate in the awards season campaign for Precious, leading to a decades-long feud with the film’s director, Lee Daniels, as well as Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry.

He continued to condemn Winfrey and Perry in his conversation with Sharpe, mentioning how his relationship with Winfrey became more strained after she welcomed him into her estranged family, including her older brother, who admitted to sexually abusing her as a child. , to her talk show in 2010. She said she felt Winfrey “betrayed” her.

Watch Mo’Nique’s full interview above.

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