Riley said in a follow-up email last week that “all of us at Martin are thinking about Nicci and wishing her the best.” The upbeat commercial, which couldn’t help but make you smile, was produced by Richmond-based The Martin Agency, whose senior vice president and creative director, Sean Riley, said Carr “brought so much energy and humor to the spot. The commercial opens with Carr as the apron-wearing “Tasha” in a kitchen, cutting vegetables, but by the end she has joined in the dancing with the hip-hop duo Tag Team as they joyfully scoop ice cream in a comical version of their 1990s hit “Whoomp! (There It Is).” It was shot in November 2020 and debuted on Christmas Day. In Atlanta, she relaunched her acting career, landing gigs on shows such as “Atlanta,” “Good Girls” and “P-Valley,” which led to the Geico commercial. She taught school in Washington and moved to Los Angeles, where she scrambled to find acting jobs (which included roles as an extra in “Beauty Shop” and “The West Wing,” among other films and shows), completed a master’s degree in student development in higher education, worked at UCLA and the University of Southern California, burned out on acting as a career, moved to Atlanta and settled into a job at Georgia State University. She graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School and earned a degree in political science at Saint Paul’s College in Lawrenceville. She attended city schools, played piano at Mosby Memorial Baptist Church and participated in SPARC - the School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community - where she played harp, sang and danced. “I’m stronger and more courageous than I thought I was.”Īs I wrote in April, Carr moved to Richmond from New York when she was about 8. “Now, I’m just a woman who’s conquering it,” she said, part of a legion of women and men who are doing the same. She is deep into weekly chemotherapy treatments, which will continue until surgery - likely in the spring - to remove what’s left of the shrinking tumor. “Which doesn’t make sense, I know,” she says. Her outlook has shifted entirely from that “initial panic,” as she describes it, when she was afraid of what people might think about her for being sick. At first, she didn’t even want to proceed with treatments. It felt so overwhelming and so unfair and, well, like a “death sentence,” she said, acknowledging now she was in a “dark and scary place” back then. “I was like, for real, God? This is how it’s going to go down?” she recalled. In early September, Carr, 50, was diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer, an aggressive form of the disease, and, as you might expect, the news hit hard.
In years past, she had been diagnosed with benign cysts, but, “This,” she thought, “feels different.” “This” arrived in July when she felt a lump in her breast.
“All of a sudden,” she said, “this happens.” Last April, I wrote about Carr and the success of the commercial that left her, as she says, on “cloud nine.” “As far as exposure, that has been the biggest,” Carr said of the commercial, which recently was named by industry trade publication Adweek as the No. The first half of 2021 couldn’t have gone much better for Nicci Carr, the actor and former Richmonder who found sudden acclaim as one of the stars of the funny “Scoop, There It Is” Geico commercial.
0 kommentar(er)
