With an Oscar on her shelf and the lead role in HBO's buzzy Watchmen, Regina King is the Hollywood superhero she always wanted to be. Regina King has won an Oscar for her role in If Beale Street Could Talk, two Emmys for American Crime and a third Emmy for Netflix’s Seven Seconds.
In Watchmen, King plays Angela Abar aka Sister Night. In the post-superhero world of the series, Angela is a masked police officer. Her costume is reminiscent of a nun and one of her weapons looks to sort of like rosary beads.
"I had never seen anyone like her," King told THR about her character. In addition to taking on race, the show has several stories driven by women, specifically King's protagonist Angela.
"This woman was someone I had never seen before. Obviously, because she's black, that has a lot to do with that. But even more than that, just being the lead and being so strong, but so vulnerable. We see that inner turmoil. Even when you're waiting for her to become unhinged, you don't know exactly what ‘unhinged' is for her," King told The New York Times.
Watchmen airs Sundays, 9 p.m. on HBO.
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