Kim Fields joins Erika Alexander and Kim Coles to revisit Living Single Season 1, Episode 2: “I’ll Take Your Man”—and reflect on her fabulous, fiery run as Regine Hunter. From on-screen rivalries to off-screen revelations, Kim Fields shares how Regine helped her shed the child-star image, why she sees herself in Zendaya and Keke Palmer, and whether Regine was actually jealous of Max. Plus, Erika and Kim give Kim Fields her well-deserved flowers in a conversation full of laughs, love, and legacy. Got a question for Erika or Kim about Living Single? True Blue Fans, send it our way at [email protected]. Your note just might make it into the show. Follow us on Instagram and YouTube to stay in the mix. Stream Living Single on Hulu, or purchase episodes on Apple TV+, Amazon Prime Video and/or Fandango. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What iconic movie inspired the opening discussion?
Getting to know you, getting to know all about you. Come on, that's a jam. For the younger listeners, listen to me. This is from the classic film, The King and I, and probably your grandmother made you watch it on VHS. That's how old this is.
What made you bust out in this song? Well, I mean, you got to be the grandma, gosh, dog. But yeah, probably, because it is old. Well, it's brilliant. Well, when Deborah Kerr, who plays her teacher, the great actress and singer Deborah Kerr, she's singing Getting to Know You because she's warning them.
She's warning them in this movie because she's traveled a long way to go to Siam to be their teacher and that they really don't know each other. But there's going to be moments when things are a bit unfamiliar and that there's going to be times where they have to learn how to adapt to each other.
And her students need to understand that there's going to be a period of self-discovery and growing pains. Right, right. You know?
I understand. And for our younger people who may not understand, that means, I don't know y'all. I'm just trying to figure y'all out.
Yeah. In the first season of Living Single, that's like that. I mean, we meet all the characters. They already know each other from their childhood or college or family, like in the case of Sinclair and Khadija, because they're family. But all that information is new to the audience. So the writers end up front-loading
the series with the same details over and over again to teach the audience who the characters are. And the same goes for the actors. That actor has to find their own way into the character one episode at a time, which is not always easy. Okay, but here's the good news. We had a secret weapon.
We had a cheat code, if you will. We had the Rosetta Stone of sitcoms. Yeah. You know who we had? Who? A legend, ladies and gentlemen. A legend.
Who is that legend?
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Chapter 2: How did Kim Fields transition from child-star to sitcom legend?
How relevant are these memes and these quotes and how people are still digging it?
Yeah. Like a rash.
Like a rash. Okay.
It keeps coming back. Oh, I just gave Charles his walking papers. Oh, it is such a dream breaking up with someone delicately. You know the routine. It's me.
It's not you. Of course we'll still be friends. Blah, blah, blah. Cry, cry, cry. Hug, hug, hug. Okay. Bye.
So let's just talk about this beautiful moment that we learned something about you and Kyle, like what you all have in common. Yes. And it's all in just, he doesn't say a word, but all that gesture and all of that, like, yeah, I know what you do. I know what we've got to do. I love that.
And that we, we get a new pairing, you know, this is six people, but they have to constantly put us together in different permutations. And that was the first time we see that permutation. It was really good. A combination.
And to TC's Testament unscripted. That wasn't how it was scripted. Do you remember how it was?
Do you remember? It wasn't scripted. She said it, but he just went there.
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Chapter 3: What character dynamics are explored in Living Single's second episode?
Oh my God, I remember this. You remember?
Yes. Yes. And you rented a Winnebago for us to come and see you.
I did.
And we drove out in the middle of nowhere to come see this show. We were like the Beverly Hillbillies, blackface. All this Winnebago. We did this thing.
I mean. My people are coming to see me. We had just met.
Yeah.
But I knew it was a drive. And I was like, well, let me not. I just met y'all. Let me not impose on y'all. So we didn't have to drive and spend gas. And I appreciate the support. So just here we go.
We came to see you. Here we go. So we know that you're a director now. And we've both been directed by you on Living Single. And I got a chance to work with you on The Upshaws.
And we worked together on Insecure. Oh, my gosh. That just hit me.
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