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Kim Fieldsis respectfully skeptical when asked about bringing back old favorites.
“There’s always talk about doing reboots,” acknowledged Fields, 53. “That’s just a very popular trend right now.”
“And while I respect it, and of course I have beloved shows that I want to see what they’d be doing right now,” Fields noted. “I think you have to be really careful with reboots because if you don’t get it right, you are messing with people’s beloved characters.”
She added with a laugh, “And thankfully everybody’s busy — I got a new show I’m doing!”
Fields recentlyopened up to PEOPLEabout growing up on screen.
“You don’t realize, ‘This show is groundbreaking,'” she shared. “You’re just grateful to show up to a job. I certainly didn’t think that it was as monumental as it would go on to become.”
“It was a different type of coming-of-age,” she adds. “And to do that in that environment was just really spectacular.”
Kim Fields inThe Facts of Life.Ron Tom/NBCUniversal via Getty
In more recent years, Fields — who is mom to sons Sebastian, 14, and Quincy, 7, with husband Christopher Morgan, 45 — was a cast member on Bravo’sReal Housewives of Atlantain 2015 and competed onDancing with the Starsin 2016.
She’s also taken on directing projects in addition to acting roles.
“It’s really exciting to be able to find something new,” she told PEOPLE in May. “There’s this wonderful sense of adventure that I’m realizing was always there.”
On TuesdayTODAY, she said that her move into directing has been “so liberating.”
She continued that stepping behind the camera “was a different way to being in control of my career. I’m never one to wait on anybody to do anything. So [I enjoy] being able to direct, being able to have my own production company, being able to tell stories the way that I want to….”
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Fields currently stars alongsideWanda Sykesand Mike Epps inThe Upshaws,which told theTODAYhosts offers “a nod to theNorman Learsitcoms that we grew up on [with a] splash of what’s popping off now.”
Season 2 ofThe Upshawsdrops Wednesday on Netflix.
source: people.com
