Following 17 years, ‘The Proud Family’ is back. TMC spoke EXCLUSIVELY with Penny Proud herself, Kyla Pratt, about restoring the famous person and acquainting the adored series with her little girls.
Prepare to feel a wide range of 2000s sentimentality. The Proud Family gets back with The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder, a continuation of the notable Disney Channel series. This time around, the series is circulating on Disney+, however it’s as yet The Proud Family you know and love. Penny Proud is as yet exploring life as a 14-year-old alongside her Proud Family and companions.
At the point when The Proud Family debuted in 2001, Kyla Pratt was only 14 years of age, very much like Penny. TheMagazineCity spoke EXCLUSIVELY with Kyla, presently 35, about venturing once more into Penny’s point of view, the new interpretation of the signature tune, and how her two children, Liyah and Lyric, love the show. Peruse our Q&A beneath:
Did you at any point suppose, preceding being familiar with this show, that you were truly going to play Penny Proud once more?
Kyla Pratt: I didn’t. I think I trusted. There’s forever been somebody coming dependent upon me and hollering at me regarding the reason why we were not broadcasting live any longer, and for what reason did I do that? Also I’m as, “I didn’t make it happen. For what reason would you say you are shouting? I’ll advise them to bring it back. I don’t have any control.” But realizing that individuals needed this for such countless years, I sort of trusted. I’m glad that it’s occurring. At the end of the day, as far as I might be concerned, this was a show that was astonishing. It didn’t avoid specific points like others would. You have such countless various individuals on the show, various sorts of individuals. Everyone, even as a high school young lady, regardless you resemble, you knew what Penny was going through. Everyone has some sort of Sugar Mama that is insane however has you covered. Everyone has that Uncle Bobby who you would rather not guarantee however you love. I believe it’s simply really interesting, and we discussed things, and presently I feel like we’ve overhauled it so much, yet it actually has a similar quintessence. I’m simply invigorated so that everyone might be able to see.
Whenever the first show ran, that was the mid 2000s, which seems like another life back. Presently the show is during the 2020s and happens in the current day. Converse with me a tad regarding how the show has been refreshed to mirror the times that we’re in.
Kyla Pratt: So the show has been refreshed a great deal. We have new characters that are coming in, we have a person Michael, who’s played by EJ Johnson. We have Keke Palmer as my new companion Maya. We have same-sex guardians on the show. We talk about web-based media and the tensions of that for little youngsters. It’s energizing for me since I’m one of those individuals, I feel like individuals need to feel seen. Indeed, even as a youthful Black young lady growing up, I didn’t understand that we didn’t have an animation regarding a Black family. Whenever I was recording it, it was very much like, “Gracious, I simply connect with these individuals to such an extent. This is cool.” But I didn’t understand until some other time the amount of an effect it had on others. I felt the same way pretty much all portrayal. I feel like intellectually it’s extremely useful while you’re going through something, regardless of whether you’re a child, a young person, or a grown-up, to see somebody on screen who either appears as though you or behaves like you or is going through exactly the same things as you. I’m invigorated on the grounds that 20 years prior I could never have imagined someone would agree, “Goodness, in 20 years we will be stronger.” I’d have been like, “We’re now clearly. What are you referring to?” But, obviously, with the times that we’re in now, we’re ready to contact a great deal of subjects that we didn’t actually contact in those days.
There are so many astonishing visitor stars in this new show like Gabrielle Union, Lena Waithe. Was there one that when you heard the news that you were like, “Goodness, I am directly super energized?”
Kyla Pratt: I figure the main individual that strikes a chord that I was really amped up for was Tiffany Haddish. Since to me, who’s stronger and prouder than me? I’m like, goodness no doubt, certainly Tiffany.
Let me know a tad about your response when you heard this patch up on the signature tune.
Kyla Pratt: I was exceptionally amazed. I feel like I’m a fan attempting to sit back and watch when things will happen on the grounds that they won’t let me know anything… I didn’t realize that they were changing the signature melody or that they were refreshing it. At the point when I heard it, I was truly energized. The first, obviously, was so amazing. The new melody has that equivalent substance however carries it to now, carries it to 2022, and how you need to attract youngsters is a ton through the music.
Fans will need to know whether there will be the opportunities for additional seasons not too far off. Is it safe to say that you are available to that?
Kyla Pratt: I’m certainly open to it. I’m trusting so. I feel like online media is the explanation that we’ve arrived at this point. I feel like the more enthusiasts of the show stay drew in… I know they will cherish it. I’m expecting the chance. I figure how well we did with this season, I’m simply seeking divine intervention. My fingers are crossed.
You were 14 years of age when you initially began the first show. After seventeen years, you’re in your 30s. Do you actually see that you truly connect with Penny a great deal?
Kyla Pratt: I do. Since, truly, I’ve been a high school young lady. It wasn’t difficult to hop once more into that. I’m raising young ladies at home. I have a 8-year-old and a 11-year-old. So it’s like, I’m ready to see things according to other characters’ viewpoints now. It wasn’t difficult to bounce once again into this is on the grounds that all I needed to do was tap into my youth.
Have they watched the first series?
Kyla Pratt: Yes, I really played the DVD for them of The Proud Family Movie when they were a lot more youthful just to check whether they perceived my voice. I didn’t approach the episodes around then. I believe they’re on VHS away some place, yet who has a VCR any longer? For at that point when Disney+ set the series on their application… they love it to such an extent. My kid was playing the see for this in a real sense like multiple times and I was like, “Alright, I’m burnt out on hearing myself. Would we be able to pay attention to something different, please?”
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