Nicole Ari Parker Speaks on Men Crying in Public: I Don’t Want to See It

I’m doing some looking around and the name Nicole Ari Parker pops up… Where do I know that name from? .. match face with memory.. Soul Food. Man, it’s been a long time since I’ve seen her around. Ah, the plight of the black actress.

Next week Nicole Ari Parker will co-star in “Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins.” In the gear up for the flick, she talked to movieweb.com about her part and other filmy details.. “Nicole Ari Parker Is Caught Between Two Lovers.”

It’s been so long since Nicole’s talked to the press, she started blurting out things I don’t think her husband, Boris Kodjoe would have wanted made public: he cried because of a golf game?

Actually, they asked, she answered.

What do you think about men who cry in public?

“I think I like it when a man cries.

I just don’t want to see it.

My husband got a little choked up at the Michael Jordan Celebrity Golf Tournament that we went to earlier this month in the Bahamas.

He got rained out. He came home kicking dirt. His nose was a little red. I don’t know if he was a little cold. But he was playing, and on the last day, they got rained out. This was at the height of the day.

At the ninth hole, there was this huge tropical storm. He didn’t get to go back and finish that game.

They canceled it.

There was no winner. Nothing.

It was full on tears.

Yeah. Men and sports. I think there is some kind of weird emotional chamber there that gets locked up. With the football and basketball, and the championships? It opens that door, and all the water comes rushing out.”

She went on to put Michael Clarke Duncan on blast too.

On the set.. “He actually cried on my shoulder one day in the hot sweaty sun. I had big huge Michael Clarke Duncan asking me to comfort him. I’m not sure about what. But I remember his head on my bosom. And tears coming down his face. He was fully crying.”

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