Subway…no method.
Actress Danielle Moné Truitt has moved to New York for her new job as Sergeant Ayanna Bell on “Legislation & Order: Organized Crime,” however she received’t be using the general public transit system.
“I believe my resting bitch face and the truth that I stroll so quick deters individuals from even considering that they will mug me or mess with me or half method even discuss to me.
“That retains me protected in New York and I don’t take the subway,” she tells Web page Six.
She provides, “I really preferred taking the subway years in the past however I don’t take the subway now. I attempt to decide on issues that may maintain me out of hurt’s method as a lot as attainable.”
Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul have announced a plan to address safety concerns on New York Metropolis’s subways after a sequence of violent incidents came about in stations and on trains.
California native Danielle, 41, continued, “Years in the past once I would come to New York to go to to see my pals. I might take the subway at 3 a.m.
“It was sort of cool particularly being from California as a result of we don’t have that possibility on the market. Simply to stroll round and hop on a prepare and go wherever you need to go.
“So I liked it however now due to COVID and all of the stuff that’s occurring, I’m simply taking Ubers. Your head needs to be in a swivel whereas using the prepare.”
Truitt is enjoying the primary black feminine lesbian lead within the historical past of the Legislation & Order franchise. The 41-year-old laughs at the truth that she is constantly enjoying cops as she did in John Singleton’s BET show “Rebel.”
She provides her “resting bitch face” is an efficient survival software, “California and New York is certainly a unique vibe. I grew up in South Sacramento within the hood, so I used to be getting my butt grabbed as slightly lady on the playground up till I used to be a 20-something-years-old.
“I discovered early once I was a child I might chase them and hit them again and stuff. However as soon as I grew to become an grownup…it was like, ‘Okay I can’t struggle a grown man.’”
“Legislation & Order: Organized Crime” airs Thursday nights at 10 p.m. on NBC.
