Kimberly Brooks – All in a Huff

Q.  Are there any current projects that you are working on?

A.  Actually right now I’m working on a TV series, we’re on hiatus right now, we go back a month after next, “Huff” starring Hank Azaria on Showtime.  So, it comes on, it’s an hour show that continues each week, 10 p.m. on Sunday nights, so I am working on that.  I just finished last week completing a commercial for State Farm so look for that, it’s going to start airing this week.

Q.  How did you get involved with the show “Huff”?

A.  I actually went through the regular auditioning process, my agents, they sent me out on an audition and it literally was a three month period of going back and forth and back and forth.  I went to network three times and it was call backs and it was a blessing when I got it, but it was a three month period of just going back and forth.  It was just a regular project that my agent presented to me and I said “I’d love to do something like that,” I could relate so much to the character. 

Q.  You play Hank Azaria’s assistant on the show, what is it like having him as a “boss?”

A.  Oh my goodness, he is one of the most generous celebrity stars I have ever worked with, I’ve learned so much from him cuz he’s so talented but he’s so generous!  Every Friday on our set he gives everyone gifts, I mean from the lighting crew to the cast members to the crew, everyone a gift.  I talked to some of my friends who are shows and I asked, “Is this normal?”  And they said oh no this isn’t normal, he’s been wonderful to work with.

Q.  Can you tell us a little bit about the show for those who aren’t familiar with it?

A.  It is about Hank Azaria who plays a psychiatrist and it just focuses on him and his day to day life, dealing with the different patients that come in and out of his office with their issues.  His family life with their issues, his brother is in a mental institution, his best friend Oliver Platt is strung out on cocaine, his assistant, me, I’m a Christian but I’ll curse you out in a minute.  He’s got all these people around him with all of these problems and you just wonder at the end of each episode of he’s really the one who is really crazy.  So, it is mixed with humor and drama!

Q.  Do you have a most memorable moment from filming “Huff”?

A.  The most memorable moment probably would be the first day, it was the first day of actual filming, the first day we started, the first episode and my scene was first.  To be up there I was just so nervous and excited and feeling like oh we’re going to be doing this for ten years.  Doing this scene, after all those times that I auditioned, but finally on that stage I had to keep going to the side because I kept tearing up because I couldn’t believe it was a dream come true. 

Q.  You appeared on “The Jamie Foxx Show,” what was it like getting to work with the now Oscar winner?

A.  It was amazing and actually I was a recurring on “The Jamie Foxx Show,” I did three episodes of that show the first season with Jamie.  Not only did we work together but he became a friend of mine, and he was generous again, very, very humble and it was just a wonderful vibe on his set.  I always love Jamie and he just kept bringing me back and I’ll never forget and he just was wonderful, he was the type of actor that you never knew what he was going to say next.  They had to be quick with the improv because he’d totally come off the cuff and make everybody laugh.  So you had to really be prepared when it was time to work with Mr. Jamie Foxx.

Q.  Do you have a favorite show that you’ve guest starred on?

A.  Probably my favorite again, and I guess this may be for sentimental reason, but my favorite would be “Martin,” and that was a long time ago but that was the first guest star I did when I moved to California.  So that particular episode, which is amazing, because out of the many things that I’ve done people still come up to me for that particular episode.  I did two episodes on that show, but the very first one, it was so new to me, I had never done a guest star before.  But to be on a guest star at that time, “Martin” was the number one show on Fox and to just have moved to California and do that, that was probably my favorite because that was so new and exciting.

Q.  What was it about the Talented Teen Organization that helped make your dreams come true?

A.  Well, I think it was just being surrounded by so much talent, all of the other contestants they were from all over the world.  Just realizing that you have to have your game face, because there was so much talent at that young age that I already had prepared myself,  “Well, you know what I don’t know if I’m going to win, because I never have seen this kind of talent. I’m just going to do my best.”  It prepared me just for the fact of being prepared and also being prepared if it didn’t happen, with the rejection that I was going to experience out here in California. 

Q.  What is your latest obsession, are you into any particular book, game, sport, show, etc.?

A.  It probably would be books, I’m in a book club and that’s my relaxation just reading these books and that would probably be it.  The number one thing would be eating, that’s always going to be it. 

Q.  Is there anything that you’d like to say to your fans and supporters?

A.  Well first of all I’d like to thank them for all of their support, if I can encourage them with just my goal I know that’s my purpose for even being in this field, to let them know that I am a witness that your dreams can come true.  I have been out here in California for a long time trying to obtain my dream which was be on a TV series every week.  After a whole lot of rejection and even having to go back to Baltimore and come back I know that if you don’t give up it can happen, so don’t give up on your dreams, thanks for your support and it can be done!  I’m a witness.