Beyond the Gates2Should ‘Beyond the Gates’ Nab Tyler Perry’s ‘Beauty in Black’ and ‘All My Children’ Alum, Debbi Morgan to play Hayley’s Mother?
First things, first. Tyler Perry’s hit Netflix series, Beauty in Black was just renewed on Wednesday for its second season, which means former All My Children alum and Daytime Emmy-winner, Debbi Morgan (ex-Angie Hubbard), will be very busy as part of the juicy series where she is chewing the scenery (in the best way possible) as Olivia, matriarch of the wealthy Bellaire family.
The Beauty in Black renewal comes just after the release of part two of season one. Part one of the Tyler Perry series spent four weeks ranked in the Top 10 on the streamer, and in its second week was #1 across 28 countries.
While it may take awhile to pry Debbi Morgan away from her delicious role on the Tyler Perry hit, eventually Beyond the Gates’ newly married Hayley Lawson (played by Marquita Goings), will need to have more of her troubled backstory revealed. It has been noted that Morgan and Goings bare a strong resemblance to one another, so what a perfect mother and daughter combo they could be!
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In fact, during the historic first livestream featuring actresses Karla Mosley, Arielle Prepetit and Marquita Goings on the Michael Fairman Channel, which followed the premiere week of episodes for the new CBS daytime drama series, Goings shared, “I’ve played a young Debbie Morgan on a movie or a TV show, maybe twice. I’ve played the younger version of her.”
When discussing Hayley’s background, and what she knows thus far about her character’s history from Behind the Gates creator, head writer, executive producer and showrunner, Michelle Val Jean, Goings shared, “Hayley being Naomi’s (Arielle Prepetit) best friend, and betraying her, and then betraying Dani (Karla Mosley), underneath it all, she has her own backstory.”
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Marquita went on to share, “Hayley also comes from a very lonely place. Her parents aren’t alive and she’s been out in the world on her own. So, she’s a sweet girl underneath it all. I know there’s going to be some new things to come.”
Being this is a soap opera, parents supposedly not being alive can easily be rectified, or perhaps a woman could appear who says she is Hayley’s real biological mother to try to get her claws into the Dupree/Richardson money? Food for thought.
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Meanwhile, if you have not seen the bitch-slapping of all bitch-slapping highlighted by Morgan on her recent Instagram post in a scene from Tyler Perry’s Beauty in Black, check it out below!
Daytime fans will recall Debbi as All My Children’s Angie Hubbard, a role she took over to ABC’s Loving and The City and then back to Pine Valley.She played the part from 1982–2013 (including appearing in Prospect Park’s version of the soap for its one season). She was also cast as Dr. Ellen Burgess on the defunct spinoff, Port Charles from 1997-1998. Later, she was cast on The Young and the Restless as Harmony, the biological mother to Devon Hamilton (Bryton James). Morgan stayed with the series from 2011-2012.
So, have you been watching Debbi Morgan in Beauty in Black? Could you see her being part of the cast of Beyond the Gates down the line, presuming to be Hayley’s mother? Share your thoughts via the comment section. Then, in case you missed it check out the Michael Fairman Channel’s livestream interview with Karla Mosley, Arielle Prepetit, and Marguita Goings.
