Meagan Good Says She Desires to Get Remarried and Have Youngsters (Unique)

As Meagan Good gears up for the discharge of her newest movie, Divorce in Black, the actress appears ahead to a different extremely anticipated challenge — her “second act” in life.

Talking with ET’s Nischelle Turner in regards to the Tyler Perry-directed, produced and written movie, Good shared how engaged on the thriller alongside co-star Cory Hardrict whereas they navigated their respective divorces was “extraordinarily therapeutic.”

“This is the factor, neither considered one of us has had dangerous marriages, we’re each pals with our exes and we love them, we care about them, we would like one of the best for them and so they need one of the best for us,” Good says of her and Hardrict’s relationships with their exes, DeVon Franklin and Tia Mowry. 

“However it doesn’t matter what… divorce is traumatizing and difficult, and I believe that what I actually wished to do with [my character] Ava was create the area and say, ‘OK, this occurred, however that is my second act of life and I’ll get enthusiastic about that and I’ll do my work and I’ll heal, however I am additionally going to rediscover myself and I’ll keep in mind issues about myself and I am simply going to be excited for the subsequent a part of my journey.'”

The 42-year-old has a brand new lease on life since finalizing her divorce from producer and author, DeVon Franklin, in June 2022 after 9 years of marriage. The previous couple met on the set of their 2011 movie, Leaping the Broom, and received engaged in Might 2012. Franklin filed for divorce in December 2022, citing “irreconcilable variations,” and the pair had no youngsters collectively. 

In Might 2023, Good started courting Jonathan Majors, of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and Creed III fame. The duo have been nearly inseparable since going public. Good was a frequent sight by Majors’ facet throughout his assault trial and conviction.

The Harlem star explains that she wished to make sure that Ava’s journey wasn’t “solely her being the sufferer,” however her selecting to take management of her life and “be unimaginable as an alternative of being a sufferer.” 

“I believe, in a approach, I’m having a second act of life — professionally as properly,” Good tells ET. “I really feel like regardless that it has been 30-something years, in a variety of methods I am simply beginning out and crossing into a totally totally different act, a totally totally different area that I am enthusiastic about, you understand? And I believe that the whole lot we undergo brings one thing fully totally different out of us, which makes us higher alongside the way in which and provides us a deeper properly to attract from.”

She continues, “I may positively relate to [that part of it] as a result of I nonetheless need to have youngsters and I am nonetheless going to have youngsters. And someday I want to get remarried and all of the issues. So, you positively take into consideration that, I imply, I’ll be 43 in a couple of month now. However I suppose that society typically does make you’re feeling such as you move your prime… however I am like, ‘You understand what? No one’s in management however God.”

“And so all we are able to do is do the whole lot in our energy for the issues that we would like on this life: handle ourselves, love on ourselves, imagine in our journey, all of it, you understand? Then what’s supposed to return will come,” Good provides. “To me, there is no such thing as a previous my prime, I am simply getting higher, you understand? And I am enthusiastic about that.”

Good stars alongside Hardrict, 44, who finalized his divorce with Mowry in April 2023. In Divorce in Black, Hardrict performs Dallas, a person who’s having a tough time letting go of his failed relationship together with his ex-wife, Ava (Good), and can go to any lengths (generally harmful) to get her again. 

“Hear, after I learn the script, I knew I needed to be aside of it trigger it was Mr. [Tyler] Perry and he is modified the tradition rather a lot, it is impactful. The world resonates together with his materials and it was at all times a dream come true to work with Mr. Perry,” Hardrict tells ET about taking on the role. “Whether or not it reasonably be in Divorce [in Black] or not, this one was getting completed by me. I cherished the character and I cherished the whole lot in regards to the suspense, the arcs of the household, and I left all of it there. And that was the remedy of relieving the whole lot that I have been via in my complete life, you understand? Shedding my mother, the whole lot.” 

He provides, “I put all of it there to honor her I carry out my feelings in actual emotions, honor my family members. That is how I give them the homage.” 

In October 2022, Mowry, 46, announced that she and Hardrict would be ending their marriage. ET obtained the divorce submitting wherein Mowry cited irreconcilable variations as the rationale for her divorce submitting — signed on Sept. 30. Collectively, the exes are mother and father of Cree, 13, and Cairo, 6. The divorce was finalized six months later. 

Channeling his uncooked feelings helped Hardrict take a darker strategy when he got here to taking part in Dallas. 

“He is a wild boy, he is a wild boy, he is a wild boy,” he provides about his character. “I prefer to function my characters. I love to do all of my characters. I prefer to be genuine and I like to offer it a thousand.”

Nonetheless, there is a lesson and a deeper dialog about psychological well being that the All American star hopes viewers keep after watching the movie. 

“Psychological well being — it does not get checked or if it is not so as, it positively can smash relationships shifting on in your future, your previous,” he tells ET. “Positively search assist, ask for some steerage, for some counsel. Possibly a hug will make it easier to as a result of he had a variety of childhood trauma. Dallas did not have the instruments or the individuals there for him to form of assist him out alongside that journey. I’d say search assist, particularly as a Black man, all of us want somebody to inform us that you simply love them. And that may save lives and save different peoples lives within the course of.” 

Divorce in Black is on Prime Video July 11. 

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