Unfortunately, the film lived up to her character’s name and bombed at the box office.
“The movie flopped, and I started looking at graduate school,” she toldVariety.
Peete was cast in the new cop show, and her TV career took off.
“I loved ‘21 Jump Street,'” Peete toldYahoo Entertainment.
“It was just super ahead of its time, whether it was LGBT, guns in school.
We were ahead of our game.”
The actress recalled her first impressions of the show when they first started filming.
“I felt the iconic vibes of a real juggernaut,” she explained to Variety.
“Then I met Johnny Depp.
I remember thinking, ‘Holy sh*t. This is going to blow up.
And it did.”
“It was a special show,” she told Yahoo Entertainment.
“I’m super proud of it.”
From 1992-1997, she played Vanessa Russell on the ABC sitcom “Hangin’ with Mr. Next up was the role of Malena Ellis on NBC’s “For Your Love” from 1998-2002.
These days, you could frequently findPeete on the Hallmark Channel.
She’s also starred in multiple “Christmas in Evergreen” movies.
The organization is dedicated to helping people with autism or Parkinson’s Disease and their families.
The idea came afterHolly Robinson Peete’s sonwas diagnosed with autism and her father with Parkinson’s.
