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BLACK-ISH: Tracee Ellis Ross Fought Back at Doing 'Lady Chores' on Show

Tracee Ellis Ross is explaining why you won’t see Rainbow Johnson doing β€œlady chores” all the time on black-ish.

During a new interview, the 47-year-old actress said that from the beginning, she didn’t want her character to carry a laundry basket or cook in every scene of her hit ABC sitcom.

β€œWhat I did speak up about from the beginning was, β€˜Why am I carrying laundry?’ β€˜Why am I the person in the kitchen cooking right now, when this has nothing to do with the scene?’” Tracee explained on the L.A. Times’ Can’t Stop Watching podcast. β€œEven sometimes when it does have something to do with the scene. I started coining them as β€˜lady chores.’ β€˜Why am I doing the lady chores?’ β€˜Can’t Anthony [Anderson] do the lady chore?’”

Tracee went on to say that she wants to change the perception on TV that only women do chores around the house.

β€œI don’t believe they’re β€˜lady chores.’ I believe they’re house chores. And I don’t believe that we should assume,” Tracee explained. β€œI believe every relationship is a negotiation between two people about what each of them feel comfortable doing, and I think the more that we portray that on television, the more that that becomes the reality out in the world, or matches the reality that the world actually is.”

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